This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(February 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can helpexpand this article with text translated fromthe corresponding article in French. (September 2013)Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, likeDeepL orGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Youmust providecopyright attribution in theedit summary accompanying your translation by providing aninterlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary isContent in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte (1802-1807)]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template{{Translated|fr|Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte (1802-1807)}} to thetalk page. For more guidance, seeWikipedia:Translation.

Napoléon-Charles Bonaparte
Prince Royal of Holland;Prince Français
Born	10 October 1802 Paris,France
Died	5 May 1807(1807-05-05) (aged 4) The Hague,Holland
Names Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte
House	Bonaparte
Father	Louis I of Holland
Mother	Hortense de Beauharnais

Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte (10 October 1802 – 5 May 1807) was the eldest son ofLouis Bonaparte andHortense de Beauharnais. His father was EmperorNapoleon I's younger brother; his mother was the daughter of Napoleon's first wife,Joséphine de Beauharnais.

At the time of his birth, his uncle wasthe First Consul of France and childless. Napoleon Charles was his eldest nephew and was seen as a potential heir, but he died before reaching his fifth birthday on 5 May 1807 ofcroup.

Napoleon Charles had two brothers: the youngest, Louis Napoleon, eventually became Emperor asNapoleon III in 1852.

The strong attachment that Napoleon showed towards the child, which was not repeated with his two younger brothers, gave rise to speculation that Napoleon-Charles was the son of a forbidden relationship between Napoleon and his stepdaughter Hortense.^[1]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toNapoleon Charles Bonaparte.

This biography of a French peer or noble is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1802 births
• 1807 deaths
• House of Bonaparte
• Princes of France (Bonaparte)
• Sons of kings
• French royalty who died as children
• French nobility stubs

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles needing additional references from February 2023
• All articles needing additional references
• Biography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
• Commons category link is on Wikidata
• All stub articles