XIL MATHILDE LETITIA WILHELMINE (1820-1904)  , daughter of

Jerome, and sister of Prince Napoleon (XI.), was born at Trieste on the 20th of May 1820; after being almost Mathilde. betrothed to her cousin Louis Napoleon, in 184o she was married to Prince Anatole Demidov . His conduct, however, led to a separation within five years, and the tsar Nicholas compelled him to make Princess Mathilde a handsome allowance . After the election of Louis Napoleon to the presidency of the republic she took up her residence in Paris, and did the honours of the Elysee till his marriage . She continued to live in Paris, having great influence as a friend and patron of men of art and letters, till her death on the 2nd of January 1904 . III' vaunted his travery . After the first defeats he had to flee from France with the empress, and settled in England at Chislehurst, completing his military education at Woolwich . On the death of his father on the 9th of January 1873 the Imperialists proclaimed him Napoleon IV., and he became the official Pretender . He was naturally inactive, but he was influenced by his mother on the one hand, and by the Bonapartist leaders in France on the other . They thought that he should win his crown by military prestige, and he was persuaded to attach himself as a volunteer to the English expedition to Zulu-land in February 1879 . It was a blunder to have allowed him to go, and the blunder ended in a tragedy, for while out on a reconnaissance with a few troopers they were surprised by Zulus,and the Prince Imperial was killed (June 1, 1879) . His body was brought back to England, and buried at Chislehurst . Charles Joseph Bonaparte (b .

1851), younger son of the first Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, and a

grandson of Jerome, king of Westphalia, attained a distinguished place in American politics . Born at Baltimore on the 9th of June 1851 and educated at Harvard University, he became a lawyer in 1874 and has been president of the National Municipal League and has filled other public positions . He was secretary of the navy in President Roosevelt's cabinet from July 1905 to December 1906, and then attorney-general of the United States until March 1909 .