Vienna

Napoleon had one child, a son named François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte. He was born to the Empress Marie-Louise on March 20, 1811. At birth he was given the title king of Rome. When he was 3 years old his father abdicated and named him emperor of the French. The boy never had a chance to use his titles. He was shipped off to Austria, along with his mother, by the victorious allies in 1814. There he grew up virtually a royal prisoner under the eye of his grandfather, Emperor Francis I. He was given the title Napoleon II by his father's supporters in France.

Because it was feared that the Bonapartists might use his existence to gain power in France, his old royal titles were abandoned, and he was made duke of Reichstadt. He was trained as a soldier under careful supervision.

Unfortunately for the Bonapartist cause, the young man died of tuberculosis at age 21 on July 22, 1832, in Vienna. From: Compton's Encyclopedia Online

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