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NAPOLEON II

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAPOLEON II  ., emperor of the French, the style given by the Bonapartists to the son of
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Napoleon I., Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles, duke of Reichstadt (q.v.) . The fact that in 1814, by Napoleon I.'s abdication in his favour, the king of Rome (as he was then styled) became for a few days titular emperor " by the will of the
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people," was held by Prince Louis Napoleon to justify his own assumption of the style of Napoleon III. which, as seeming to involve a dynastic claim, gave such offence to the legitimist powers, notably the emperor Nicholas I. of Russia .

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