Editing Louis Bonaparte (section)

==Marriage and children==
[[File:Portrait of Louis Bonapart.jpg|thumb|right|Louis Bonaparte with his second son, [[Napoléon Louis Bonaparte]], painted by [[Jean-Baptiste Wicar]]]]

Louis was married on 4 January 1802 to [[Hortense de Beauharnais]], the daughter of the deceased general [[Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais]], and his wife [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie]]. Josephine was the first wife of Louis's brother Napoleon. Thus Hortense was also Louis's step-niece.

This marriage had been forced upon them and was rather loveless, though they supposedly consummated it and interacted often enough to produce three sons. As a rule, the Bonapartes, except Napoleon, loathed the Beauharnaises. Hortense also certainly had extra-marital lovers.<ref>McMillan</ref>

Hortense de Beauharnais gave birth to three sons who were officially claimed by Louis Bonaparte, despite his doubts about their paternity:
# [[Napoleon Charles Bonaparte]], born 10 October 1802, [[Prince Royal of Holland]]. When he died on 5 May 1807 at 4½ years of age, his body lay in state at [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame Cathedral]] in Paris. He is buried at Saint-Leu-La-Foret, Ile-de-France.
# [[Napoleon Louis Bonaparte]], born 11 October 1804. Became Prince Royal of Holland on his brother's death, and was King for eight days in 1810, between his father's abdication (1 July) and the fall of Holland to Napoleon Bonaparte's invading army (9 July). Sovereign of the [[Grand Duchy of Berg]] in 1809-1813 (under regency). Napoleon Louis Bonaparte died from [[measles]] on 17 March 1831, and his remains were buried at Saint-Leu-La-Foret, Île-de-France.
# Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, (1808–73). Born in Paris, he was the third and last son, and became Sovereign of the [[Second French Empire]] (1852–1870) as [[Emperor of the French|Emperor]] [[Napoleon III]].