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He professed himself the representative of the democratic aspects of Bonapartism and was strongly opposed to the coup d’état of 1851 yet he was reconciled with the Imperial family.\r\n\r\nPierre Bonaparte, nicknamed the wild boar, was deserted by his republican friends when he was reconciled with the Empire. In January 1870 he was brough into the limelight. As a result of a controversy in the press two journalists were sent to challenge him to a duel; during a heated discussion the Prince shot one of them. When the High Court acquitted him of murder the Government was severely criticized.\r\n\r\nMathilde Bonaparte, sister of Prince Napoleon, was betrothed to her cousin Louis-Napoleon until his unsuccessful invasion of France at Strasbourg in 1836. She acted as Napoleon’s hostess until his marriage. 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