| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bonaparte |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bo·na·parte |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  n -pärt |
| Corsican family, all brothers of Napoleon I, including Joseph (1768–1844), king of Naples (1806–1808) and Spain (1808–1813); Lucien (1775–1840), who disapproved of Napoleon's policies; Louis (1778–1846), who was king of Holland (1806–1810) and fought with Napoleon in Italy (1796–1797) and Egypt (1798–1799); and Jérôme (1784–1860), who was king of Westphalia (1807–1813), fought at Waterloo (1815), became marshal of France (1850), and was president of the senate under Napoleon III.
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