Son of Napoleon. Biography

Immediately after his birth, in 1811, the long-awaited son of Napoleon and Marie-Louise was proclaimed the King of Rome and heir to the French Empire. Twice Napoleon abdicated in favor of his son, but both times the allies proclaimed the... Bonapartes deposed, with Louis XVIII declared the legitimate monarch of France. In 1815, four-year-old Napoleon François-Joseph-Charles was sent with his mother to Austria. He grew up in Vienna at the court of his grandfather, Austrian Emperor Francis I, and lived for a very short time - only 21 years - but his fate still resonates to this day. In addition to the biography of Napoleon's son, this book includes the famous play by E. Rostand, The Chick.