Louis Lucien Bonaparte
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Louis Lucien Bonaparte was the third son of Napoleon's
Napoleon I of France
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

 second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano , born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino....

. He was born at Thorngrove, mansion in Grimley
Grimley, Worcestershire
Grimley is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. .It is known for Grimley Gravel Pits , a gravel quarry and nature reserve.-External links:* pages by the West Midland Bird Club.**...

, Worcestershire
Worcestershire
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, England, where his family were temporarily interned after having been captured by the British en route to America

A philologist and politician
Politician
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, he spent his youth in Italy
Italy
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 and did not go to France until 1848, when he served two brief terms in the Assembly as representative for Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

 (1848) and for the Seine
Seine (département)
Seine was a département of France encompassing Paris and its immediate suburbs. Its préfecture was Paris and its official number was 75. The Seine département was abolished in 1968 and its territory divided among four new départements....

 départements (1849) before moving to London, where he spent most of the remainder of his life.

His classification of dialects of the Basque language
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...

 is still used.

He also denounced William Pryce for having plagiarized the research of Edward Lhuyd
Edward Lhuyd
Edward Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also known by the Latinized form of his name, Eduardus Luidius....

 into Cornish
Cornish language
Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...

 and other Celtic languages
Celtic languages
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Louis Lucien Bonaparte died at Fano
Fano
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, Italy. He is buried at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery
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, Kensal Green
Kensal Green
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