See also:NAPOLEON See also:FRANCIS See also:JOSEPH See also:CHARLES See also:REICHSTADT
, DuxE of (1811-1832), known by the Bonapartists as See also:Napoleon II., was the son of the See also:Emperor Napoleon I. and See also:Marie See also:Louise, archduchess of See also:Austria
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He was See also:born on the loth of
See also:March 1811, in See also:Paris at the Tuileries See also:palace
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He was at first named the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Rome, after the See also:analogy of the heirs of .the emperors of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire
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By his See also:birth the See also:Napoleonic See also:dynasty seemed to be finally established; but in three years it crumbled in the dust
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At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the downfall of the empire (See also:April 1814) Marie Louise and the king of Rome were at See also:Blois with See also:Joseph and See also:Jerome See also:Bonaparte, who wished to keep them as hostages
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This See also:design, however, was frustrated
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Napoleon abdicated in favour of his son; but events prevented the reign of Napoleon II. from being more than titular
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While Napoleon repaired to See also:Elba, his See also:consort and See also:child went to See also:Vienna; and they remained in Austria during the See also:Hundred Days (1815), despite efforts made by the Bonapartists to carry off the See also:prince to his See also:father at Paris
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Meanwhile the See also:congress of Vienna had carried out the conditions of the treaty of See also:Fontainebleau (March 1814) whereby the duchies of See also:Parma and See also:Guastalla were to go to the ex-Empress Marie Louise and her son, although much opposition was offered to this proposal by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. and even (so it now appears) by Metternich
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The See also:secret treaty of the 31st of May 1815 between Austria, See also:Russia and See also:Prussia secured those possessions to her, her son bearing the See also:title Prince of Parma, with hereditary rights for his descendants
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But after the second See also:abdication of Napoleon in favour of his son (22nd of See also:June 1815)—a See also:condition which was wholly nugatory—the See also:powers opposed all participation of the prince in the affairs of Parma
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He therefore remained in Austria, while Marie Louise proceeded to Parma: From this time onward he be-came, as it were, a See also:pawn in the complex See also:game of See also:European politics, his claims being put forward sometimes by Metternich, sometimes by the unionists of See also:Italy, while occasionally malcontents in See also:France used his name to discredit the See also:French Bourbons
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The efforts of malcontents increased the resolve of the sovereigns never to allow a son of Napoleon to See also:bear See also:rule; and in See also:November 1816 the See also:court of Vienna informed Marie Louise that her son could not succeed to the duchies
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This decision was confirmed by the treaty of Paris of the loth of June 1817
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Marie Louise demanded as a slight See also:compensation that he should have a title derived from the lands of the " Bavarian See also:Palatinate " in See also:northern Bohemia, and the title of " See also:duke of See also:Reichstadt " was therefore conferred on him on the 22nd of See also:July 1818
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Thus Napoleon I., who once averred that he would prefer that his son should be strangled rather than brought up as an See also:Austrian prince, lived to see his son reduced to a See also:rank inferior to that of the Austrian archdukes
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His See also:education was confided chiefly to See also:Count Dietrichstein, who found him precocious, volatile, passionate and fond of military affairs
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The same See also:judgment was given by See also:Marshal See also:Marmont, duke of See also:Ragusa, who recognized the warlike See also:strain in his See also:character
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His nature was sensitive, as appeared on his receiving the See also:news of the See also:death of his father in 1821
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The upheaval in France in 1830 and the disturbances which ensued led many Frenchmen to turn their thoughts to Napoleon II.; but though Metternich dallied for a time with the French Bonapartists, he had no intention of inaugurating a Napoleonic revival
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By this time, too, the duke's See also:health was on the decline; his impatience of all See also:restraint and his See also:indulgence in See also:physical exercise far beyond his powers aggravated a natural weakness of the See also:chest, and he died on the 22nd of July 1832
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See also:Comte de Montbel, Le Duc de Reichstadt (Paris, 1832) ; J. de See also:Saint-F6lix, Histoire de Napoleon II
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(Paris, 1853); See also:Guy de l'See also:Herault, Histoire de Napoleon II
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(Paris, 1853); Count Anton von Prokesch-Osten, Mein Verhaltniss zum See also:Herzog von Reichstadt (See also:Stuttgart, 1878) ; H
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Welschinger, Le Roi de Rome (Paris, 1897) ; E. de Wertheimer, The Duke of Reichstadt (Eng. ed., See also:London, 19o5); M
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See also:Rostand's See also:play L'Aiglon is a dramatic setting of the career of the prince
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