Lucien Bonaparte was Napoleon I’s middle brother…

.. 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 “Brutus”.

(portrait: Lucien Bonaparte in 1800)