Editing House of Bonaparte (section)

==Imperial House of France==
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[[File:The Four Napoleons.jpg|thumb|"''The Four Napoleons''", 1858 propaganda image depicting [[Napoleon|Napoleon I]], [[Napoleon II]], [[Napoleon III]], and [[Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial|Louis-Napoléon]]]]

In 1793 [[Corsica]] formally seceded from France and sought protection from the British government, prompting [[Pasquale Paoli]] to compel the Bonapartes to relocate to the mainland. [[Napoleon|Napoleon I]] is the most prominent name associated with the Bonaparte family because he conquered much of Europe during the early 19th century. Due to his indisputable popularity in France both among the people and in the army, he staged the Coup of 18 Brumaire and overthrew the [[French Directory|Directory]] with the help of his brother [[Lucien Bonaparte]], president of the [[Council of Five Hundred]]. Napoleon then oversaw the creation of a new Constitution that made him the [[French Consulate|First Consul of France]] on 10 November 1799. On 2 December 1804, he crowned himself Emperor of the French and ruled from 1804 to 1814, and again in 1815 during the [[Hundred Days]] after his return from Elba.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, Napoleon I made his elder brother [[Joseph Bonaparte|Joseph]] first King of Naples and then of Spain, his younger brother Louis King of Holland (subsequently forcing his abdication in 1810 after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France), and his youngest brother [[Jérôme Bonaparte|Jérôme]] as King of Westphalia, a short-lived realm created from several states of northwestern Germany.

Napoleon's son [[Napoleon II|Napoléon François Charles Joseph]] was made [[King of Rome]] and was later styled as Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

Louis-Napoléon, son of Louis, was President of France and then Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870, reigning as [[Napoleon III]]. His son, [[Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial|Napoléon, Prince Imperial]], died fighting the [[Zulu people|Zulu]]s in [[Colony of Natal|Natal]], today the South African province of [[KwaZulu-Natal]]. With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continue to assert their right to the imperial title. A political movement for Corsican independence surfaced in the 1990s which included a Bonapartist restoration in its programme.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}