Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Napoleon II
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Birth=== Napoleon II was born on 20 March 1811, at the [[Tuileries Palace]], the son of Emperor [[Napoleon I]] and Empress [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma|Marie Louise]]. On the same day he underwent ''ondoiement'' (a traditional French ceremony which is a simple baptism unaccompanied by the usual additional ceremonies) by [[Joseph Fesch]] with his full name of ''Napoleon François Charles Joseph''.<ref name="napoleon">{{cite web | url=http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/biographies/files/478853.asp | title=Napoleon II: King of Rome, French Emperor, Prince of Parma, Duke of Reichstadt | publisher=napoleon.org | work=The Napoleon Foundation | date=March 2011 | access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> The baptism, inspired by the baptismal ceremony of [[Louis, Grand Dauphin]] of France, was held on 9 June 1811 in [[Notre Dame de Paris]].<ref name="napoleon" /> [[Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg]], Austrian ambassador to France, wrote of the baptism: {{quote|The baptism ceremony was beautiful and impressive; the scene in which the emperor took the infant from the arms of his noble mother and raised him up twice to reveal him to the public [thus breaking from long tradition, as he did when he crowned himself at his coronation] was loudly applauded; in the monarch's manner and face could be seen the great satisfaction that he took from this solemn moment.<ref name="napoleon" />}} He was put in the care of [[Louise Charlotte Françoise de Montesquiou]], a descendant of [[François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois]], who was named [[Governess of the Children of France]]. Affectionate and intelligent, the governess assembled a considerable collection of books intended to give the infant a strong grounding in religion, philosophy, and military matters.<ref name="napoleon" />
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)