Napolean's Brothers

This illustrated book has thirty-four chapters and was published in 1909.

THE BROTHERS OF NAPOLEON

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, KING OF NAPLES AND SPAIN . 1768-1844

LUCIEN BONAPARTE, PRINCE OF CANINO . . . 1775-1840

LOUIS BONAPARTE, KING OF HOLLAND .... 1777-1846

JEROME BONAPARTE, KING OF WESTPHALIA . 1784-1860
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PREFACE

The story of Napoleon's four brothers is little
known to the English reader. They are over-
shadowed by the greatness of the Emperor.
We catch glimpses of them here and there in the
popular histories of his career, as his mere satellites, but
the narrative only takes note of such of their actions
as brought them into direct relation with him. They
all survived him. They lived comparatively unevent-
ful lives after the downfall of the Empire had stripped
them of their state and driven them into exile, but
some of their sons helped to make history. Their
story is worth telling from a point of view that does
not so utterly dwarf them. We may trace the course
of events from their standpoint, and see how Joseph
and Lucien, Louis and Jerome played their parts;
how some of them helped in their brother's marvellous
rise to power ; how they bore themselves in the days
of prosperity, and in the darker times that followed
the fall of the Empire; and how one of them sur-
vived to see Bonapartism again a factor in European
politics, long after the first of the Napoleons had
passed away.