Lucien Bonaparte

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino (May 21, 1775 - June 29, 1840) was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

Later years

With the pope a prisoner of Napoleon in 1809, Lucien was sailing for the United States, when he was captured instead by the British and passed the years 1810 to 1814 as a prisoner of the British, settled comfortably in the English countryside, and working on a heroic poem on the subject of Charlemagne. He was even omitted from the Imperial almanachs listing the Bonapartes from 1811.

Related Topics:
1809 - United States - British - 1810 - 1814 - Charlemagne - 1811

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Then, in the "Hundred Days" after Napoleon's return from exile at Elba, Lucien rallied to the imperial cause. Though he was proscribed at the Restoration and deprived of his fauteuil at the Académie Francaise, under Louis-Philippe Lucien Bonaparte was made a peer of France. He died in Viterbo, Italy, on June 29, 1840.

Related Topics:
Hundred Days - Elba - Restoration - Académie Francaise - Louis-Philippe - Peer of France - Viterbo - Italy

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