Talk:L'Aiglon

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"Residing in Austria following his father's exile to St. Helena, Napoleon Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, is effectively a prisoner in the court of his grandfather, Emperor Franz I. He is closely guarded by Chancellor Metternich, who controls his life and is determined to stave off any Bonapartist aspirations. Invigorated by his father's heroic legacy, Franz yearns to make a return to France. To that end, he is loyally aided by supporters such as Séraphin Flambeau, a grenadier in the Grande Armée, and Franz's cousin Countess Camerata.

During a masquerade ball at Schönbrunn Palace, Franz and Flambeau manage to slip away while Camerata acts as a decoy. They journey to the historic battleground of Wagram, where Franz experiences visions of the conflict and of his father's triumphs. However, Franz's dreams of regaining his family's lost power are silenced as Metternich's police recapture him. Flambeau kills himself to evade capture, and Franz is forced back to Vienna. Disheartened and exhausted, Franz's declining health from tuberculosis overtakes him, dying aged twenty-one without fulfilling his ambitions. Metternich orders that Franz be buried in his Austrian military uniform, representing his loss of his identity as a French prince in death." S1r Gawa1n 2004 (talk) 22:11, 2 July 2026 (UTC)