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prince Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte
1815–1881
A turbulent member of the Bonaparte family, he moved through politics, exile, and scandal in 19th-century France. His life is often remembered as much for duels and public controversy as for his ties to Napoleon’s dynasty.
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Un mois en Afrique
by prince Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte
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Born in 1815, Prince Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and a nephew of Napoleon I. He spent parts of his early life in Italy and became involved in revolutionary politics before returning to French public life.
His career never followed a calm or conventional path. He served as a politician during the Second French Empire, but his reputation was shaped just as strongly by his fiery temperament and by the killing of journalist Victor Noir in 1870, a case that caused a major public uproar in France.
Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte died in 1881. Today he remains a strikingly controversial figure within the extended Bonaparte family: a prince with a dramatic life story that crossed aristocratic privilege, radical politics, and personal scandal.