Bonaparte, Lucien

French (Corsican-born) politician

1775 - Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on the 21st of May the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

He was educated in mainland France.

1789 - Lucien returned to Corsica at the outbreak of the French Revolution.

       - Became an outspoken speaker in the Jacobin Club at Ajaccio.

Napoleon made him Minister of the Interior under the Consulate.

1802 - He was made a senator of the First French Empire.

1804 - He went into self-imposed exile, living initially in Rome.

1809 - With the pope a prisoner of Napoleon he was sailing for the United States.

1810-1814 - Captured by the British and was a prisoner of the British.

1811 - He was omitted from the Imperial almanachs listing the Bonapartes.

1836 - Wrote "Mémoires".

1840 - He died in Viterbo, Italy, on 29th of June of stomach cancer.

Brother of Napoleon I