Lucien Bonaparte

Born

21 May 1775

Died

29 June 1840

The younger brother of Napoleon, Lucien Bonaparte was a Jacobin club orator in Provence during the Terror, signing himself Brutus, and was elected to the Council of Five Hundred for Liamone in 1798 while still under the legal age. Presiding over the council at Saint-Cloud on 19 Brumaire, he refused to put the motion outlawing his brother, left the chamber and appealed to the troops, denouncing the deputies as assassins; the grenadiers then cleared the hall. He was minister of the interior for the following year, organising the new prefectures, and afterwards ambassador at Madrid. His refusal to give up a marriage his brother opposed confirmed a wider political breach, and he withdrew to Italy in 1804. Captured by the British in 1810 and interned in England, he died at Viterbo in 1840.

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