The Bonapartes in the New World

xi, 3042 pp. Includes illustrations and genealogical tables. The Boapartes were confusingly conservative in the christening of their children, and any record dealing with more than one generation becomes involved with a number of people bearing the same names. On this account it has been found more convenient to distinguish some of them with the nicknames they acquired either in childhood or later on in life--especially in the case of Jerome's branch. The genealogical tables attached may help to place the Bonapartes connected with the New World mentioned in the book. They include Jerome Boneparte's American wife, his son and his grandsons by her; Joseph Bonaparte and his two daughters, Zenaide and Charlotte, who were at one time figures in Philadelphia; three sons of Lucien Bonaparte who crossed the Atlantic, one of whom became a famous American ornithologist, whose name survives in Bonaparte's Sandpiper (Erolia Fusicollis), a bird sometimes seen in England and Ireland; and Louis Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, whose passage though the United States, though brief, left a permant mark on his career and later contributed largely to the tragedy of Mexico. There were also a number of American Murats, two of the Queen of Naples' sons having emigrated in youth, one of them marrying a niece of George Washington, and the other a Miss Fraser who supplied the court of the Tuileries with a number of American Imperial Princes and Princesses whose names pattern the background of the Second Empire.