In the end most of his relatives emigrated to the same place in New York, but his surviving Old Guard moved to Gallipolis and environs in what is now Southern Ohio.
I place the failure of the French Revolution in the laps of the Revolutionaries themselves, not Napoleon. He was just the first of a series of erstwhile American allies who ruled unruly and very dangerous nations through dictatorship.
Although we usually think of the USA having bought Louisiana from Napoleon, the deal was carefully monitored by Spanish investors who had quite a bit tied up in coastal Louisiana and facilities along the Mississippi River.
They weren't simply betrayed by Napoleon and in the end did well by the deal except that they didn't like the way the lines were drawn.
Napoleon eventually disliked the French Constitution he wrote, the “Code Napoleon”. He said it was too rigid and not adaptable enough. In time, he came to really appreciate the US constitution and thought it was superior to what he wrote.
He briefly flirted with the idea of escaping from Elba to America. He had a huge number of supporters urging him to do so. It would have prolonged his life and I have no doubt he would have been very politically active in the USA. I’ll always wonder if he would have run for Senate or become a state Governor. He was a brilliant politician and brilliant at the functions of government, and I can only wonder what he would have accomplished as an American citizen.
The thing is, he liked America, but he loved France. He and France were one and the same. Emotionally, he had no choice but to return to France.
>Actually Napoleon was very pro-American. His father had lived here a while.<
So did his 2nd uncle. Even when uttered on his deathbed ‘they wanted me to be like Washington” (lost in translation), Napoleon in an autob I read 4 years ago, maintained a hidden fascination and worship of Washington and Jefferson.