WI: Bastards of Napoleon

What if Napoleon fathered three bastards sometime after 1806 2 boys one girl and acknowledged them. History proceeds same he still maries Marie Louise and has legitimate son. He later sometime in 1813 ends up legitimizing them. And they are accepted by family etc.

Scenario A: If history proceeds the same until his exile to Elba.

Scenario B: If history proceeds same until his exile to St. Helena.
 
Well, Emperor Napoleon has actually fathered many.

Charles Leon in 1806, Alexandre Walewski in 1810 and a few others. Alexandre was the most significant, eventually rising to Minister of Foreign Affairs in Second Empire.

These facts, however, don't change a picture. I strongly doubt he would have recognised them. And even if he did... The only plot you can have here is some of these to press Bonapartist claim on the throne. Even though if legitimated bastards are older than legitimate sons, bastards stand lower in line of succession as far as I know.
 
What is funny is that emperor Napoleon III probably was not ... a real Bonaparte ! His mother Hortense de Beauharnais and his father Louis Bonaparte did no longer get along with each other and his mother had affairs with other men.

Hortense by the way had another adulterine son : the count/duke de Morny.
 
While it can't be proved that Nappy III was his father's son (some sources, Louis included, believed Napoleon to be his father, hence Louis' desire to have little to do with him IIRC), the Code Napoléon points out if the mother and father were cohabiting nine months before the child's birth, that is sufficient grounds for legitimacy.
 
You must be refering to another source than the code Napoléon.

What I mentioned is based on genetic analysis.

There has been genetic analysis made with the hairs of different members of the Bonaparte family.

And several things have been proven.

Napoleon III does not have the same haplogroup as his uncles Napoleon I and Jerome Bonaparte. Which means that either Louis Bonaparte was not the father of Napoleon III, or that Louis Bonaparte did not have the same father as Napoleon I and Jerome Bonaparte (implying that Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte would have had an affair with another man than her husband Charles Bonaparte).

But we still don't know which of the 2 hypothesis is right since no DNA test was made yet on celles from Louis Bonaparte.
 
You must be refering to another source than the code Napoléon.

What I mentioned is based on genetic analysis.

There has been genetic analysis made with the hairs of different members of the Bonaparte family.

And several things have been proven.

Napoleon III does not have the same haplogroup as his uncles Napoleon I and Jerome Bonaparte. Which means that either Louis Bonaparte was not the father of Napoleon III, or that Louis Bonaparte did not have the same father as Napoleon I and Jerome Bonaparte (implying that Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte would have had an affair with another man than her husband Charles Bonaparte).

But we still don't know which of the 2 hypothesis is right since no DNA test was made yet on cells from Louis Bonaparte.

However, to get back to the original topic, Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, the descendant of Marie Walewska, does have the relevant haplogroup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Colonna-Walewski

http://www.walewski.org/index.php?page=info/info_contenu&id_rubrique=1&id_info=24#
 
What is funny is that emperor Napoleon III probably was not ... a real Bonaparte ! His mother Hortense de Beauharnais and his father Louis Bonaparte did no longer get along with each other and his mother had affairs with other men.

Hortense by the way had another adulterine son : the count/duke de Morny.

yes, even at the time when Louis was king of holland, there was already the joke going around that hortense was doing in 'false Louis' ('false louis' also being fake coins).
i think the suggestion for the potential father that i have seen most is this man : Carel Hendrik Ver Huell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Hendrik_Ver_Huell
 
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