BONAPARTE, JRME

born Nov. 15, 1784, Ajaccio, Corsica died June 24, 1860, Villegenis, Fr. original Italian Roland Buonaparte king of Westphalia, marshal of France, and Napoleon I's youngest brother, the only one whose career stretched into the second French empire of Louis-Napolon (later Napoleon III). It was through Jrme that the Bonaparte line extended into the U.S.; his eldest son, Jrme, established residence there. A member of the consular guard from 1800, Jrme was transferred to the navy soon after he was wounded in a duel. He cruised in the West Indies, where he left his ship and went to the United States; there he married (Dec. 24, 1803) Elizabeth (or Elisa) Patterson, whom he brought to Europe in 1805. Napoleon ordered Elizabeth excluded from his states, but Jrme remained, taking command of a small squadron in the Mediterranean. He then took part in the campaign of 1806. An imperial decree annulled the Patterson marriage. The Emperor then married Jrme to Princess Catherine of Wrttemberg and made him king of Westphalia. In the Russian campaign of 1812 Jrme failed in his assigned mission and was returned to Kassel, Ger. In 1813, on the fall of the Napoleonic regime in Germany, Jrme returned to France. He commanded a division on the French left wing at Waterloo and attacked with great pertinacity. On Napoleon's second abdication Jrme left France, not returning until 1847 when, after the rise of his nephew Louis-Napolon, he became, successively, governor of the Invalides, marshal of France, and president of the Senate.