He was very good friend of Minister Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, suspicious both to the Spanish Inquisitors at the end of the 18th century of comptent and connivence with the French regalist, "constitutionalist" and "bonapartist" Bishop Henry Grégoire, Abbé Grégoire, (Vého, (Trois-Évêchés), near Lunéville, France, 4 December 1750 - Paris, 20 May 1831).
Napoleon I's death in exile on Saint Helena in 1821 only transferred the allegiance of many of these persons to other members of his family; however, particularly after the death of Napoleon's son, the Duke of Reichstadt (known to Bonapartists as Napoleon II), there were several different members of the family on whom the Bonapartist hopes rested.
He acted as editor of L'Ami des lois and other French journals until 1799, when he was expelled from France; he succeeded, however, in obtaining employment under General Moreau, upon whose fall in 1804 he declared himself a Bonapartist.
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples between 1806 and 1808, and subsequently King of Spain till 1813 and titular Emperor of the French in the Bonapartist line
A staunch Bonapartist, he went into semi-secluded retirement in his Paris apartment, but still composed the military march Simon Bolívar (1883), and dedicated it to the President of Venezuela, Antonio Guzmán Blanco.
According to the historian René Rémond, the UDF descended from the Orleanist tradition of the right, whereas the RPR was a reincarnation of the Bonapartist tradition, which promotes national independence by virtue of a strong state.