Napoleon’s Brothers & Sisters: Older and Wiser 

Joseph: Mama! Napoleon won’t share his empire! Letitzia: Napoleon! Share your empire with your brothers and sisters. Napoleon: But MAMA!! Letitizia: Now Napoleon! Or you’ll be grounded in Elba again!

Napoleon gives only child vibes for me so im surprised to learn that he has siblings

Joseph is such an interesting case to me. He seems like he just wanted a comfortable, luxurious life of...whatever, and was content to let his younger brother take the helm as head of the family, even as it dragged him to some pretty wild places. Not a lot of 19th century men would be so chill.

I love how relatable Napoleon and Lucian’s sibling relationship is 😹

It was a good idea to include the bit about Bernadotte. The turbulent relationship between Napoleon and Bernadotte often put Joseph into a precarious position not only because Joseph was brother-in-law to Bernadotte, but because they had been friends even prior to the marriage of Desiree to Jean Baptiste. What is not often covered in histories is the intense correspondence between Napoleon, Joseph and Carl Johan in the last year of Napoleon's first reign. The air was thick with intrigues as Napoleon tried to win back Bernadotte's favor and he went through Joseph quite often. What is often left out of modern histories since WWI is the relationship Bernadotte had with Napoleon's siblings and mother. In short, they all adored him, probably because he was the one man who stood up to Napoleon, and often times when Napoleon and Bernadotte were on the outs, the Bonaparte sibling and Madame Mere would take Bernadotte's side, infuriating the Emperor. Add to all this volatility, that until 1808, Napoleon quietly considered Bernadotte his heir in the event of an early death prior to the birth of a son. The reason was twofold: 1) Napoleon believed only Bernadotte had the military and political skill to maintain the Empire. Whereas he had marshals who were talented generals, none had the political skills and experience as Bernadotte. 2) Because of Bernadotte's relationship as in-law to Joseph, and his friendships with other Bonaparte siblings, Napoleon felt he was the only marshal, other than Murat, who would protect his family no matter what. Finally, as an extra tidbit: Napoleon considered Bernadotte for King of Spain. However, Bernadotte said he had no desire to be a king unless chosen openly by the nation in question, and declined. Napoleon felt that Murat was not up to the task, so in the end it came down to Joseph, who, as mentioned, who was not pleased to trade kingdoms.

Napoleon's siblings are quite interesting. I can't believe I missed this video! Seems like the Bonapartes are one of those families who are ambitious and destined for greatness!

Yes! The Bonaparte siblings have their spot to shine!

Fun fact: Actor Rene Auberjonis who planed Odo in Star Trek is a descent of Caroline.

Every time I hear about Napoleon being exiled all I can this is "🎶 But he came back🎶".

thank you for doing this! Even some of his siblings were against his plans, Napoleon still cared for them

Its very respectable how Lucien stood up for himself

Idk why, but if part 2 was gonna be called “Younger and Dumber” I would honestly laugh lowkey 😭

This is so interesting. I went to high school with a Bonaparte. Mario Bonaparte was a cool kid; the last time I saw him, he worked at a convincence store in 1994.

Never looked into the siblings of Napoleon. That's quite an interesting family!

This would make a good Masterpiece Theater miniseries.

I'm lecturing on Napoleon today. Such a rollercoaster of a life he had! I even made a short lecture with my 4 year old about Napoleon

Seeing comments from five months ago now makes me appreciate Lindsay’s content more.

Maybe in a future video you can expound on Bernadotte's story. His life story is actually very interesting. He actually had a brief stint as France's Minister of War and his becoming Crown Prince of Sweden was an attractive option because aside from his military reputation and the fact that Sweden wanted to be in good terms with Napoleon, he treated kindly the Swedish Prisoners of War at Lubeck. Also, fun fact, his wife actually refused to live with him in Sweden because she found Sweden to be cold and refused to convert to Lutheranism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John

And again another great video! Reminds me of the year 2009, when I discovered the book "The Golden Bees" by Daniel Henderson and read it within one afternoon, bc it was utterly captivating. It's a family biography about the Bonapartes in chronological order and I wouldn't be surprised if it served as a source for this video.

I know very little of French history, this is so fascinating!

Hi Lindsay! I think it would be super cool to make a video/series on the longest living members of the British royal family! Whose with me?

As coronation is approaching closer , why don't you make a videos on "The Grand Delhi Darbar" . The only time when a British monarch was crowned outside Europe!!!!

Thank you, I have learned so much

Well done. Informative and entertaining.

Thank You Lindsay ❤

As a huge Napoleon fan, really loving this series 😊

Finally! Lindsay reposted this video, looking forward to it.

This made Napoleon and his family very relatable

"also if stomach cancer" I couldn't stop laughing sounded like "another one"

I love all ur videos they are so informative and interesting I can't wait for part 2

Pls do a video on the descendants of napoleon’s older siblings

You should make a video abt the kings and queens of Sardinia and Italy, or queen consorts of Italy.

Wow I never knew about Elisa Bonaparte, sounds like she was more competent than her brothers, with the exception of Napoleon of course.

Is it weird that I didn't know these videos existed

this is so cool, thank you.

Thanks for sharing

Maria Anna passes away 2nd Maria Anna passes away the same day she was born 3rd Maria Anna passes away four months later 4th Maria Anna (nervous laughter)

Never noticed Napoleon's siblings at all. As well as his parents' background.

I applaud lucien

what a fascinating story!

So interesting. I am team Lucien.

Well, I'm happy that Joseph and his mother lived a good life.

Great video! The tension between Napoleon and his siblings seems like great material for a "Horrible Histories" sketch. However, the only one I found with the family in it, made them seem very chummy.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o_fzz9RvkS8.html

Great video.

The 4th Maria Anna must have been sweating.

What I'd like to know is why did Napoleon take his brother from the Nalpes when he was doing so well over there? It's not like he didn't have other family members or subordinates that could do the job in Spain for him.

Thank you very nice video

I'm looking forward to the information you have on Jerome's wealthy American wife Elizabeth Patterson.

So the whole family of Napoleon got involved with the government? Talk about nepotism! I didnt know this. Your narration made their story interesting

I wouldn't call Joseph an enlightened despot he sounded great for Italy and I'd say his brother was more despotic than him..and actually Napoleon wasn't short..he was actually pretty tall for a male back then Napoleon was actually about 5 ft 9 or 10 back then..and according to the history show mysteries at the museum which actually does research like you too..the actual theory is Napoleon died of hemorrhoids but did have stomach issues on top of that and he died of that and possible sepsis as well

It's funny how Josephine resembles Napoleon's mother!

Can u do a video abt Genghis khan and other Mongolian kings, or abt Mongol Empire

So he was a nepo baby

3:37 They went to boarding school to be taught by Mr. Bean

Yay!❤

You should check out Eva Schubert.

sdgdhhsbsk I was never interested in Napoleon so I never had any idea he was actually Italian

Nest pls do something about Skanderbeg

Succession: Bonaparte edition 😂

after this can you do Napoleons son, nephews, and nieces?

Sister of Napoleon

I have lived in NJ for my entire life and now you're yelling me Joseph Buonaparte lived in BORDENTOWN at some point??? Bruh

Why are there old and new comments. I’m assuming this video is old but put out again.

What about the brothers and sisters of George Washington

Cqn you do isabeau of bavaria??

Jean Baptiste Bernadotte - not Jean Bernadotte. And more interesting would see any take care what happen to Napoleons siblings children One ended up in Sweden for ex.

Coup d'etat = "koo-day-tah"

Napoleon 3rd

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i thought he only had 1 brother max

It’s a shame where Louisiana is today after the USA bought it so long ago.

I'm distant related to Caroline's first husband, Joachim Murat... distantly. Essentially almost irrelevantly related. It's more a "party trick" useless factoid than anything but kind of interesting to me. LOL.....

Can you please change the music I feel I hear that instrumental on so many history videos it’s just so generic and overused 😢

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Revolution ideas for "good part" born in Naples.. What illuminate ideas.. 😂😂

Joseph was the Older Brother of Napoleon, please do some research 😊