Napoleon Louis Josef Jérôme Bonaparte (16 July 1864 – 14 October 1932) was a member of the

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, a lieutenant-general in the Russian Army and governor of the province of

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in 1905.

Early life

Louis Bonaparte, as he was known, was born in Meudon, France. He was the second son of

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, who was the son of

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's brother

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and of

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, daughter of

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Life

He was educated with his older brother

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, then lived a quiet life in Paris at the home of his aunt

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. His father directed him to a military career. As a relative of

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, he was not allowed to join the French Army, so he became a lieutenant in the Italian Army in

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, with the approval of his uncle, King

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. Because of anti-French sentiment in the Italian Army, he left Italy in 1890 and enlisted in the Russian Army. In 1895 he was promoted to colonel. In 1902 he was stationed in the

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. When riots broke out in 1905 between Armenians and Azeris in Yerevan, he was named governor of the province of Yerevan and ordered to restore order. In 1910, he retired from the Russian Army as a lieutenant-general and moved to the family estate in Prangins, Switzerland. At the request of the Russian tsar, he became liaison officer for the Russian Army with the

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, led by his cousin Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta. In 1917, he returned to Prangins, though his later travels included trips to Japan and the United States. He died in 1932 from a stroke in Prangins, Switzerland. He never married and had no children.

Ancestry

Sources

* Armenia, the Survival of a Nation by Christopher Walker () * Dictionnaire du Second Empire (1995) by Jean Tulard
Fire and sword in the Caucasus by Luigi Villari
(pages 216–228)

Footnotes

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