The roots of the Swiss-German emperor

Number 1 had a Corsican accent - number 3 a Swiss German accent, traces of which he apparently retained for a long time. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, born in Paris in 1808, grew up from 1817 at the Château d'Arenenberg in Salenstein, on the shores of Lake Constance in the canton of Thurgau, alongside his exiled mother, Hortense, daughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais, Napoleon I's first wife. Hortense had married Louis Bonaparte, one of his brothers, and was therefore both the Emperor's daughter-in-law and sister-in-law. Do you follow?

Following this, Louis-Napoléon became a cadet at the Federal Central Military School in Thun. In 1832, the canton of Thurgau awarded him the title of honorary citizen, which automatically conferred Swiss nationality on him. In July 1834, he was promoted to the rank of captain in the Bernese artillery, and even signed an «Artillery Manual".