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8 unusual facts about Lucien Bonaparte


Andrew Bonaparte-Wyse

He was the grandson of Sir Thomas Wyse, a Member of Parliament and educational reformer, and great-grandson of Lucien Bonaparte.

Canino

Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was lord of Canino and is buried in the town's collegiate church.

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein

Besides religious paintings, landscapes and anatomical studies, Vogel also produced portraits in Rome, of subjects such as Bertel Thorvaldsen, Lucien Bonaparte and – on behalf of the king of Saxony - Pope Pius VII.

Luciano Buonaparte

Lucien Bonaparte (1775–1840), Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano

Lucien Bonaparte

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse

Born in Paris, the son of Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and estranged wife of the Irish politician Sir Thomas Wyse, Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse's real father was a British army officer, Captain Studholm John Hodgson.

Peter Rouw

The Victoria & Albert Museum holds a medallion in pink wax on black glass made by him of Prince Lucien Bonaparte (1814), the Duke of Wellington (1822) and posthumously in 1814 of Matthew Boulton, the partner of James Watt.

William Bonaparte-Wyse

William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse was born in Waterford, the son of the politician and educational reformer Sir Thomas Wyse, and Laetitia, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte.


Alexandre Brongniart

Born in Paris, he was an instructor at the École de Mines (Mining School) in Paris and appointed in 1800 by Napoleon's minister of the interior Lucien Bonaparte director of the revitalized porcelain manufactory at Sèvres.

Arbonne

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte the basque dialect spoken in Arbonne is northern Upper Navarrese


see also

Prince of Canino and Musignano

Canino and Musignano are two neighbouring villages in the Province of Viterbo in Italy and the title was bestowed on Lucien Bonaparte by Popes on 18 August 1814 (Prince of Canino) and on 21 March 1824 (Prince of Musignano).