When Lucien’s beloved Christine died…

… his sister took care of the young children for him, freeing him from the responsibilities of children.  Together with his sister, they supported archaelogy, science, and the arts in Italy.

He found the bust of Juno at one dig.

He remarried Alexandrine de Bleschamp, making a key political tie.

(portrait featured: Alexandrine with their daughter Charlotte about 1818; below about 1815)