Louis Napoleon

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1914-1997) was the applicant Bonapartist with the throne of France of 1926 with 1997.

Second child and single son of Victor Napoleon and the princess Clementine of Belgium. Married to Alix de Foresta, they had four children of which Charles Napoleon. Born on January 23rd, 1914 with Brussels and struck as of its birth by the Law of exile of 1886, which prohibited in theory the access of the territory to the applicants of the families having reigned on France, Louis Jerome Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie Bonaparte, prince Napoleon passes his youth to England and Belgium, before settling in Switzerland, and attends the Lausanne and University of Louvain to study political sciences, economic and social.

As of the declaration of war, in 1939, it offers to be useful in the French Army and, in front of the refusal of the president of the council, Edouard Daladier, engages in the Foreign legion. Under the name of Blanchard, it leaves to fight in North Africa. Demobilized in 1941, it comes into contact with the Résistance. In 1942, whereas it tries to cross the Pyrenees to join free France, it is stopped by the Germans, imprisoned at the height of Hâ, in Bordeaux, then transferred to Fresnes. Released thanks to the intervention of the royal family Italian and assigned with residence, it joined Resistance and is useful under the name of Louis Monnier in the Organization of resistance of the army (O.R.A.). Louis Napoleon is seriously wounded in 1944, and the de Gaulle general does it, a little later chevalier of the Legion of Honor, authorizing it to remain in France on a purely semi-official basis. He then takes the name of “count de Montfort”, whom he will keep until the abolition of the law of exile, on June 24th, 1950.

Large amateur of alpinism, ski, car and deep-sea diving, Louis Napoleon took part in the activities of companies established in the Sahara, in equatorial Africa and in old Belgian Congo. With Alix de Foresta, whom he had married in 1949 and which gave him four children (of which Charles, current elder of Bonaparte), he took care of the safeguard of the Napoleonean inheritance. In 1979, it had made gift in the State of manuscripts, memories and works of art coming from the succession of Napoleon i and Napoleon III.

Louis Napoleon died out on Saturday, May 3 1997, in his residence of Prangins, in Switzerland, at the age of eighty-three years. He was commander of the Legion of honor and Military Cross 1939-1945. In its will, it designates its grandson Jean-Christophe (and not his Charles oldest son) like new applicant Bonapartist with the throne of France.

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