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* BONAPARTE. 268 BONAPARTE. dor at Cassel, the capital of the new king- dom, caring very little for government, not even taking the pains to acquire the language of the country. At the time when he was in- vested with tile crown he was forced to marry Catharine, the daughter of King Frederick I. of W'urttemlxjrg. After the war with Austria the finances of Westphalia, through misman- agement, plunder, and extravagance, as well as war expenditure, were found in an ex- hausted condition. The battle of Leipzig brought the reign of .Jerome to a close. After the peace of IS 14 he left France, and resided tirst in Switzer- land, then at Gratz, and in the beginning of 1815 at Triest. He was made a peer when Napoleon returned from Elba, and fought by the side of the Emperor at Ligiiy and at Waterloo. After his brother's abdication he left Paris, June 27, and visited Switzerland and Austria, but ulti- mately settled in Florence. His request to be allowed to return to France was rejected in 1847, by the Cliamber of Peers, but was after- wards granted, and at the outlireak of the Febru- ary Revolution he was in I'aris, where he was appointed Governor of the Invalides in 1848, and in 1830 was made a French marshal. He died in 1860. After the battle of Waterloo the King of Wiirttemberg w-ished to annul the mar- riage of his daughter Catharine, but she re- solved to share through life the fortunes of her husband. Jerome left in America one son, Jerome Napoleon (1805-70). whose descendants reside in Baltimore, and had three children by his second wife. Jerome, born August 24, 1814, died May 12, 1847: Mathilde L.Tititia Wilhelmine, Princess of Mnntfort, who was born at Triest, May 27, 1820, married the Russian Count Anatol PemidolT, and lived with her husband at the Court of Napoleon 111.; she died in 1904; Na- poleon .Joseph Cliarles Paul (Prince Napoleon), who was born at Triest, September 9, 1822, passed his youth in Italy; entered the military ser- vice of Wiirttemberg, 1837; afterwards trav- eled in .several countries of Europe, and was banished from France, 1845, on account of his intercourse with the Republican Party. He returned to Paris with his father, 1847, and after February, 1848, was elected to the Na- tional Assembly. He commanded an infantry division of reserve at the battles of the Alma and of Inkernian in the Crimean War. In 1859 he married the Princess Clotilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. When war with Prussia was declared in 1870, Prince Napoleon pro- ceeded on a diplomatic mission to his father- in-law, at Florence, but failed to obtain the cooperation of Italy with his cousin. After the fall of the Empire he took up his resi- dence in England, but returned to France in 1872. On the death of the Prince Imperial, son of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, in Zululand in 1879. the eldest son of Prince Napoleon became the heir of the Bonapartist hopes. When, in 188G. the chiefs of the Bourlion family were, by a vote of both chambers, expelled from France, Prince Napoleon and his eldest .son were exiled also, lie died in 1891. Bini,loriB-PiiY. Leynadier, Uifitoire de la famillc (l<: ISonafxirlc (Paris, )8(>) ; Giegorovius, ■The Honaparte Family ( Eng. trans., Pliiladel- phia, 1855) ; Larrey, Madame Mire ( Paris. 1892) ; Du Casse, Le.H rots freres de iip(iU'(,ii I . i Paris, -lit li -lis 8 S'3 a ,5 I s li Si &.S IIS I —47 mi I— SiSS III J£7 its -III J=5 C 5« %i1 111 'Ill Is Ml <3 £|S ".S3s 11 111 I ■ii -1^ j-3 -|ti
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