With regard to Lucien, as he had really rendered great services to Napoleon on the 19th Brumaire at St. Cloud, and as he himself exaggerated the value of those services, he saw no reward worthy of his ambition but a throne independent of his brother.  It is certain that when at Madrid he had aspired to win the good graces of a Spanish Infanta, and on that subject reports were circulated with which I have nothing to do, because I never had any opportunity of ascertaining their truth.  All I know is that, Lucien’s first wife being dead, Bonaparte, wished him to marry a German Princess, by way of forming the first great alliance in the family.  Lucien, however, refused to comply with Napoleon’s wishes, and he secretly married the wife of an agent, named, I believe, Joubertou, who for the sake of convenience was sent to the West Indies, where he:  died shortly after.  When Bonaparte heard of this marriage from the priest by whom it had been clandestinely performed, he fell into a furious passion, and resolved not to confer on Lucien the title of French Prince, on account of what he termed his unequal match.  Lucien, therefore, obtained no other dignity than that of Senator.

—­[According to Lucien himself, Napoleon wished him to marry the Queen of Etruria Maria-Louise, daughter of Charles iv. of Spain, who had married, 1795 Louie de Bourbon, Prince of Parma, son of the Duke of Parma, to whom Napoleon had given Tuscany in 1801 as the Kingdom of, Etruria.  Her husband had died in May 1808, and she governed in the name of her son.  Lucien, whose first wife, Anne Christine Boyer, had died in 1801, had married his second wife, Alexandrine Laurence de Bleschamps, who had married, but who had divorced, a M. Jonberthon.  When Lucien had been ambassador in Spain in 1801, charged among other things with obtaining Elba, the Queen, he says, wished Napoleon should marry an Infanta,—­Donna Isabella, her youngest daughter, afterwards Queen of Naples, an overture to which Napoleon seems not to have made any answer.  As for Lucien, he objected to his brother that the Queen was ugly, and laughed at Napoleon’s representations as to her being “propre”:  but at last he acknowledged his marriage with Madame Jouberthon.  This made a complete break between the brothers, and on hearing of the execution of the Due d’Enghien, Lucien said to his wife, “Alexandrine, let us go; he has tasted blood.”  He went to Italy, and in 1810 tried to go to the United States.  Taken prisoner by the English, he was detained first at Malta, and then in England, at Ludlow Castle and at Thorngrove, till 1814, when he went to Rome.  The Pope, who ever showed a kindly feeling towards the Bonapartes, made the ex- “Brutus” Bonaparte Prince de Canino and Due de Musignano.  In 1815 he joined Napoleon and on the final fall of the Empire he was interned at Rome till the death of his brother.]—­

Jerome, who pursued an opposite line of conduct, was afterwards made a King.  As to Lucien’s Republicanism, it did not survive the 18th Brumaire, and he was always a warm partisan of hereditary succession.