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28 BONAPARTE banker. He resided in Rome till 1831, when he removed to Florence, and afterward to Lausanne, where his devoted and accomplished wife died, Nov. 28, 1835. At the end of 1847 he was permitted to reside in Paris, and after the revolution of February, 1848, he was re- stored to his military rank and appointed gov- ernor of the Invalides (Dec. 23) and marshal (Jan. 1, 1850). In January, 1852, he became president of the imperial senate, but retired toward the end of that year, after delivering a remarkable speech on the restoration of the empire. The palaii royal and the palace of Meudon were placed at his disposal, the right of succession to the throne was accorded to him and to his son, and he presided occasionally over cabinet councils in place of the emperor. He died from a pulmonary inflammation, which had prostrated him since December, 1859, and was buried with great pomp in the church of the Invalides. J6r6me's surviving first wife, Madame Patterson, as she was called in France, having spent several years in Europe in unavail- ing efforts for the legal recognition of her mar- riage, has ever since resided as Mrs. Patterson- Bonaparte in Baltimore, where she is much re- spected; and though smarting under an irre- trievable wrong', she never ceased to cherish the memory of the husband who deserted her. She was engaged in 1872 in completing her autobiography. II. Jerome Napoleon, only child of the preceding by his first wife, born at Cam- berwell, England, July 7, 1805, died in Balti- more, June 17, 1870. He was educated in Europe and the United States, and graduated at Harvard college in 1826. He studied law, but never practised, and in early life married Miss Susan Mary Williams, daughter of an opu- lent citizen originally of Roxbury, Mass. She brought him a large fortune, which in addi- tion to his own property made him one of the richest men of Baltimore ; and he de- voted himself to the management of his estate and to agricultural pursuits. He re- ceived a handsome allowance from his father, with whom he was on terms of intimacy in his several visits to Europe. Louis Philippe permitted him to reside for a short time in Paris, but only under the name of Patterson ; yet he attracted much attention by his strik- ing likeness to his uncle Napoleon. In 1852 a family council decided in favor of his as- suming the name of Bonaparte, but without being regarded as belonging to the imperial family ; and at the invitation of Napoleon III. he several times visited him in Paris with his son. After his father's death in 1860, the Pat- terson claim was again brought before the French courts ; but, although Berryer pleaded the cause, the decision in 1861 was again ad- verse to the recognition of Jerome as the le- gitimate son of the king of Westphalia. Mr. Bonaparte never became naturalized in the United States, and proudly called himself a French citizen. His only son, JEROME NA- POLEON, born in 1832, a graduate of West Point (1852), became an officer in the French army in 1854, and served in the Crimea, Algeria, Italy, and France till the fall of the empire. He then returned to the United States, and in 1872 he married at Newport, R. I., a lady of Boston. III. Jerdme Napoleon, son of King Jer6me by his second wife, Catharine of Wiirtemberg, born Aug. 24, 1814, died in Florence, May 12, 1847. He was an officer in the W.urtemberg army till 1840, when ill health compelled his retirement. IV. Napoleon Joseph Charles Panl, popularly known as Prince Na- po!6on, second son of Jerome and Catharine of Wurtemberg, born in Trieste, Sept. 9, 1822. His education, commenced in Rome, was com- pleted in Geneva and at Arenenberg, where his cousin, the future Napoleon III., was his tutor. His uncle, the king of Wurtemberg, provided for liis military training at Ludwigs- burg, and after remaining here for four years he travelled extensively and spent some time in Spain. His resemblance to the first Napoleon attracted attention everywhere, and Be'ranger describes him, in allusion to his obesity, as a genuine Napoleon medal dipped in German fat (une vraie medaille Napoleonienne trempee dans de la graisse allemande). A permission granted him by Louis Philippe in 1845 to re- side in Paris was withdrawn after four months, mainly in consequence of his alleged under- standing with revolutionists ; but in 1847 he was allowed to remain in France with his father, and he made himself conspicuous on Feb. 24, 1848, by his eager support of the revolution. In 1848 he was elected deputy from Corsica to the constituent assembly, and in 1849 from the de- partment of the Sarthe to the legislative assem- bly. The less liberal complexion of the latter body induced him to accept from Louis Na- poleon the mission to Spain ; but he had hardly reached Madrid when, on Jiearing of the re- actionary educational measures proposed by Falloux, he hastily returned to the assembly, and was deprived of his office as minister for having deserted his post. He now became noted for his violent opposition, and was called le prince de la Montague. In 1850, when Thiers applied the term tile multitude to those who were to be disfranchised, he vindicated popular rights in an inflammatory speech ; but he kept quiet for a time after the coup d'etat of Dec. 2, 1851. On the establishment of the second empire in 1852 he took his seat in the senate and council of state as an imperial prince, with the right of succession to the throne. At the same time he was made general of division, though he had never seen military service ; and at the opening of the Crimean war he was placed in command of a reserve corps at the Alma and at Inkerman. He was soon recalled, ostensibly on account of ill health. His adversaries questioned his bravery and capacity, while his partisans ascribed his abrupt return to civil life to his having in- sisted with characteristic vehemence upon using the war against Russia for the liberation