Lucien Bonaparte's Sons

Prince Lucien Bonaparte was the best of the four sous of Lucieu I. The othesa tuade the states of the chnrch too hot 4o hold thetn. All had impetuous, ruustcefnl tempers and literary aud archoeolagical tastes. In different ways each coetrived lo bleed the late emperorof mouey. They were brought up at Muignano aruong the Etrurian remaius which their father diseuterred during move than 20 years, to the enrichment of most of the great museums of Eurorja, Pierre and Antoine lived )ike banditti, earrying off women and shootiiig the nieu who went to stop or came to arrest them. Pierre fired his final shot at Victor Noir, at Antenil, and killed bim. The eldest, whoin I renieinber as Prince of Musignano, was married to a daughter of his uucle Joseph. He revolted against the pope, was presideï.t of tlie Roman constituent, and such a violent domestic tyrant that his wife ran away to Paris to supplicate the emperor to profeet her and her son - the future cardinal. The Priuce of Musignano met this by threatening to publish certain papers of the first Lucien proving over and over again the dishonor of Josephine and Hortense. Louis Napoleon bought theae documenta at his cousin's price. The death of the wife, Zenaide, put an end to the f end. The late Prince Lucien, who obtained a civil list pension of L250 a year - about the fourth of the entire fund - figured in Paris during the second republic as an ultra Libera). He played this card until he got a large sum of money and a senatorship. This post was honorary, as he had to live out of France. Antoine, the youngest of the four brothers, led a charmed life. His life was spared by the pope at the supplication of Lady Dudley Stuart and her mother. The papal government banishod him, and he went to Greece, where he got into another serious scrape. In New York he had the narrowest escape of benig lynched for forgettiug that he was not at Musignano. Thence he went to Mexico and Panama, with a scheme in his head that he and Louis had talked over at Bordentown for making an interoceanic canal. He laid the egg at Columbia (?) which his cousin Lucien Wyse and De Lesseps hatched 15 years ago. Thus, had the man sent to arrest Antoine shot, instead of being shot by, him, the Panama bubble would not