Napoleon II II and his brief reign. Napoleon was born on 20 March 1811 at the Tuileries Palace, son of Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise. On the same day he underwent "ondoyé" (a traditional French ceremony which is considered a preliminary, brief baptism) by Joseph Fesch with his full name of "Napoleon François Charles Joseph". The baptism, inspired by the baptismal ceremony of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France, was held on 9 June 1811 in Notre Dame de Paris. Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Austrian ambassador to France, wrote of the baptism: He was put in the care of Louise Charlotte
Modern Rome: From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century Modern Rome: From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century Modern Rome: From Napoleon to the Twenty-First Century is the first English edition of Italo Insolera’s classical historical urban study "Roma moderna. Da Napoleone I al XXI secolo" published in 2011 as the last of several editions, revisions and updates issued starting from 1962. Insolera locates the birth of “modern” Rome in 1811, when Napoleon I signed what he considers the first modern laws in Rome’s history, and extends his analysis of Rome’s urban development up to 2011. The book covers, among others, the last years of papal government and the subsequent