.. but when the British found out Lucien was anti-Napoleonic, they allowed him to return to Worcester in England to live peacefully. Lucien would eventually return to France when Napoleon I was exiled, and eventually join his brother’s cause a 2nd time, when he would remarry, be named Prince of …

.. with Christine Boyer, wife of Lucien Bonaparte (Napoleon I’st middle brother). Note the “little white dress” in its most basic is made into a sensuous garment; typical of the 1795-1800 France with the counter-revolutionary “La Marveilleuse” movement discussed earlier.

… They quietly married in 1800 despite Napoleon’s wishes.  She was well liked, but Napoleon plotted to have Lucien leave her so that he could make a political tie. The growing conflict between the brothers developed into a real anti-Napoleonic movement.  When Napoleon came after them, the family – now …

… of Etruria, being of Bourbon descent  in order to tie the countries together.  Lucien ran away and hid in Rome. Instead, he married the illiterate sister of his housekeeper, Christine Boyer. (Portrait: Queen of Etruria and Duchess of Lucca, Maria Luisa.. whom Lucien did NOT marry..)(note the pearls; in …

… because he allied himself with Robespierre during the Reign of Terror in France (around 1793).  Lucien led the grenadiers in Napoleon’s revolution despite his misgivings about his brother’s ability to lead in the way that Lucien felt the country should be run. He was successful, but sitting atop his …

.. and they did not always get along well.  Lucien’s rise to political and military fame was not due to family or political ties.  It was because he studied history, archaelogy,  politics, and went to military school. At the age of 14, Lucien arrived in France, where he named himself …

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Note the gold filigree and jewelry.. trying to make the early Regency “little white dress” heavier, richer, (and warmer) for Court. (Portrait: left to right: Napoleon’s sisters Caroline, Elise, Pauline, and then step-daughter Hortense)

..two who died before their 1st birthdays, and:  Elisa Napoleone Baciocchi Levoy; married Phillippe, Comte Camerata-Passionei de Mazzoleni; had 1 son Jean-Baptiste Jerome Charles Napoleon Baciocchi Levoy who died at age 19 (portrait: a sedate Elise in late Regency ensemble in 1827)

… in 1813 (Joachim was her sister Caroline’s husband), Elise had to abdicate all her holdings.  Lucca was captured by Murat’s anti-Napoleonic forces, and a pregnant Elise fled to Austria and then to Trieste where she hid with her brother Jerome. Elise was imprisoned at the exile of Napoleon, but …