Editing Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial (section)

==In literature==
The death is presented in some detail in [[G. A. Henty]]'s ''The Young Colonists: A Tale of The Zulu and Boer Wars'' (1885).<ref name=Arnold>{{ cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Guy |title=Held Fast for England: G. A. Henty, Imperialist Boys Writer |chapter=Preface |date=1980 |publisher=Hamish Hamilton |location=London }}</ref>

In the [[R. F. Delderfield]] novel ''Long Summer Day'' (the first of the ''[[A Horseman Riding By]]'' trilogy), [[Boer War]] veteran Paul Craddock buys a farm in 1900 or 1901. The middle-aged estate manager, Rudd, is somewhat embittered at having been one of the soldiers who had failed to rescue the Prince Imperial in 1879. Craddock is aware of the events because, by coincidence, he had been born that very day.

[[Emma Lazarus]] wrote sonnets, under the common title of "Destiny", commemorating the prince's birth and death.

The contemporary Italian poet [[Giosuè Carducci]] composed a poem in [[Alcaic stanzas]] in his memory in 1879 (later in his ''Odi Barbare''), in which he described the Prince's death as follows (vv. 1 - 4) "Questo la inconscia zagaglia barbara / prostrò, spegnendo li occhi di fulgida / vita sorrisi da i fantasmi / fluttuanti ne l'azzurro immenso". ("The unconscious barbarous [[assegai]] / prostrated him and extinguished his eyes / of radiant life, at which smiled the ghosts / floating in the immense blue").

In the play ''Napoleon IV'' by [[Maurice Rostand]], the prince is killed in a carefully planned ambush arranged with the connivance of Queen Victoria.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=French Theater |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/french_theater,3.html |date=2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206023241/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/french_theater,3.html |archive-date=6 February 2015 |encyclopedia=[[glbtq.com]] |access-date=11 April 2022}}</ref>

In a 1943 ''Southern Daily Echo'' article, former Sapper George Harding (2nd Company [[Royal Engineers]]) recalled being ordered to take a horse ambulance and find the prince's body and bring it back to the column. The Prince Imperial had been out on [[reconnaissance mission]] with a party of the [[17th Lancers]]. Describing the mission, he said
<blockquote>We advanced to a dried-up river bed and had to cut away the banks to get the ambulance across. Eventually, we reached a [[kraal]] beside a large mealie field where we found the bodies of the Prince and some of his party. They had been surprised by Zulus as they rested in the kraal. The Zulus broke out of the [[mealie]] field and killed them before they could remount their horses. The Prince had been stabbed 16 times with [[assegais]]. We made a rough coffin and put his body in the ambulance. After burying the other bodies where they were found, we went back to the column. The Prince's body was taken back to England for burial.<ref>{{cite news |title=Southampton Survivor of the Zulu War: Vivid Story of Final Battle At Ulundi |newspaper=Southern Daily Echo |date=30 December 1943 |location=Southampton, UK}}</ref></blockquote>

The Prince Imperial is a minor character in [[Donald Serrell Thomas]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[pastiche]] novel ''Death on a Pale Horse'' (2013).<ref>''Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (Pegasus, March 2013) {{ISBN|1-60598-394-2}}</ref>