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1803, and christened Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte. 

 Neither Lucien nor his son Charles appears to have acquired that 

 lust of power which characterized the emperor, though Charles 

 was more or less active in certain reform movements after he 

 had settled in Italy. Lucien, the father, was a man of scien- 

 tific and literary attainments, and though active in French 

 politics during the Emperor's prosperity he later retired and 

 made his residence in Italy. His line was excluded by Najio- 

 leon in his scheme for establishing his brothers on the European 

 thrones. In 1814, Pope Pius VII made him Prince of Canino, a 

 title, together with that of Prince of Musignano, which Charles 

 assumed after his father's death. Joseph Bonaparte, elder 

 brother of Napoleon and Lucien, and created King of Spain by 

 Napoleon, fled to America after Waterloo and settled at Borden- 

 town, N. J., and also took up his residence in Philadelphia, 

 where he occupied a house on Ninth street above Spruce. This 

 house is now the home of a personal friend of the writer and has 

 suffered little change in the lapse of time. Charles joined his 

 uncle Joseph in America (probably about 1822) and married 

 his first cousin, Zenaide, Joseph's eldest daughter. In 1825 

 Princeton University conferred upon him the honorary degree 

 of Master of Arts, though he apparently never attended the 

 college as a student. He left this countrj' in 1827, when he 

 took up his residence in Italy, where he spent the remainder of 

 his life, engaged in scientific, mainly ornithological work. He 

 died in Paris on the 29th of July, 1857. 



During his few years' residence in and near Philadelphia 

 Charles Lucien Bonaparte, then a young man in his early 

 twenties, was engaged in the study of ornithology and in the 

 preparation of his work — the continuation of Wilson's "Amer- 

 ican Ornithology." These four volumes have always associated 

 his name with that of Alexander Wilson, though the latter died 

 when Bonaparte was but a lad ten years of age, and before 

 he had set foot in America. With Audubon, however, Charles 

 was personally acquainted. He first met the "backwoods- 

 man" when the latter was in Philadelphia taking painting 

 lessons under the artist Thomas Sully and seeking a possible 

 publisher for his great work. Audul)on's journal contains the 



