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Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (born Jan. 4, 1813, Thorngrove, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Nov. 3, 1891, Fano, Italy) was a philologist, politician, and the third son of Napoleon’s second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte. He passed his youth in Italy and did not go to France until 1848, when he served two brief terms in the Assembly as representative for Corsica (1848) and for the Seine (1849). He played no direct part in the coup d’etat of Dec. 2, 1851,...