title: Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power
author:  Marcello Simonetta 
description: Husband-and-wife historians Simonetta (The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded) and Arikha (Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours) offer a biography of Napoleon's younger brother, Lucien Bonaparte (17751840). Lucien had only a brief public life, first aiding Napoleon in becoming First Consul in 1799 and, in 1804, emperor. Lucien also served as minister of the interior and ambassador to Spain. But Simonetta and Arikha's central narrative concerns the estrangement of the brothers when Lucien married his mistress, Alexandrine, rather than the woman Napoleon had chosen for him. Furious, Napoleon tried to get Lucien to divorce her and join the other siblings in ruling the empire. Instead, Lucien, Alexandrine, and their seven children spent most of their lives in exile in Italy. The authors hew too closely to the fraternal drama, often giving short shrift to the larger historical picture; they devote only one sentence to Lucien's active role in negotiating the 1801 Concordat between Napoleon and the pope. The authors portray Lucien as a gifted and principled man with republican sympathies, an art collector, and a poet praised by Byron, but the book downplays his significance as anything other than the emperor's rebel brother. (June)
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  BOOK I. DAYS OF CHILDHOOD AND OF THE REVOLUTION.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. DAYS OF CHILDHOOD.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. THE PROPHECY.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. GENERAL BUONAPARTE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. THE MARRIAGE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. BONAPARTE IN ITALY.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. VICISSITUDES OF DESTINY.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. BONAPARTE'S RETURN FROM EGYPT.
  
  
  BOOK II. THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. A FIRST LOVE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. LOUIS BONAPARTE AND DUROC.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. CONSUL AND KING.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. THE CALUMNY.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. KING OR EMPEROR.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. NAPOLEON'S HEIR.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. PREMONITIONS.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. THE DIVORCE.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. THE KING OF HOLLAND.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. JUNOT, THE DUKE D'ABRANTES.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI. LOUIS NAPOLEON AS A VENDER OF VIOLETS.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII. THE DA