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| Reign | 1 July 1810 - 9 July 1810 |
| Predecessor | Louis I of Holland |
| Successor | None Kingdom annexed |
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| Reign | 3 March 1809 - 1 December 1813 |
| Predecessor | Joachim Murat |
| Successor | None Grand duchy abolished |
| Regent | Napoleon I |
| Spouse | Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte |
| Father | Louis I of Holland |
| Mother | Hortense de Beauharnais |
| Born | 11 October 1804 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 March 1831 (aged 26) Forlì, Italy |
| Burial | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt |
Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (October 11, 1804 – March 17, 1831), or Louis II of Holland, was the middle son of Louis Napoléon, King of Holland, and Hortense de Beauharnais. His father was the younger brother of Emperor Napoléon I and king of Holland, while his mother was the daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoléon's first wife. Napoléon Louis's elder brother, Napoléon Charles, died in 1807, when he was only four years old. On his death, Napoléon Louis became Prince Royal of the Kingdom of Holland. It also made Napoléon Louis the eldest nephew of the Emperor, who at the time had no children, and likely eventual successor, a status he lost on March 20, 1811, when his uncle's second wife, Arduchess Marie Louise of Austria, gave birth to a son, Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, styled King of Rome and later Duke of Reichstadt.
In 1809 Napoléon appointed him as Grand Duke of Berg, a status he kept to 1813.
For the ten days between his father's abdication and the invasion of the French army in 1810, Louis Napoléon reigned as Lodewijk II, King of Holland.
When Napoléon was deposed in 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo the House of Bourbon was restored to the throne of France. Napoléon Louis fled into exile, but the Bonapartes never abandoned the thought of restoring the Napoleonic Empire.
Napoléon Louis married his first cousin, Charlotte, the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoléon I. He died on 17 March 1831, in Forlì (Italy), fighting for Italian independence, predeceasing the duke of Reichstadt by one year. Eventually the Napoleonic Empire was restored by Napoléon Louis's younger brother who became Napoléon III in 1852.
Napoléon Louis is buried at Saint-Leu-La-Foret, Île-de-France.
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