Napoleon’s grandnephew created the forerunner of the FBI.

A grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger brother Jérôme, Charles Bonaparte lacked his famous relative’s ambition for world domination yet displayed a talent for visionary authority that might have impressed the Little Corporal. In the late 19th century, Charles Bonaparte, then a lawyer from Baltimore, came into the orbit of fast-rising New York politician Theodore Roosevelt … Continue reading Napoleon’s grandnephew created the forerunner of the FBI.