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Dec 25, 2023 · Alexandrine de Bleschamp (23 February 1778 12 July 1855) was a French aristocrat. She was already the widow of the banker Hippolyte Jouberthon (having born him one child, Anna, in 1799), and thus known as Madame Jouberthon, when she became the second wife of Lucien Bonaparte, a younger brother o
Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4 January 1813 – 3 November 1891) was a French philologist. The third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, he spent much of his life outside France for political reasons. After a brief political career, he focused on his academic work, which particularly centered on the Basque language and the ...
Feb 1, 2013 · Workmen under the direction of his widow, Alexandrine de Bleschamp, discovered the spectacular Tetnies sarcophagi in a tomb found in a deep grotto on the banks of the Fiora River. Removed immediately to the castle at Musignano, word of their magni-ficence spread quickly to the Commissione Consultiva di Antichità e Belle Arti.
His second wife was Alexandrine de Bleschamp (23 February 1778 – 12 July 1855), widow of Hippolyte Jouberthon, known as "Madame Jouberthon", and by her he had ten children: Charles Lucien Bonaparte (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), the naturalist and ornithologist. Letizia (1 December 1804 – 15 March 1871), married Sir Thomas Wyse.
Marie Laurence Charlotte Louise Alexandrine de Bleschamp was born on 23 February 1778 in Calais and baptisted the next day in the Notre-Dame parish. She is the daughter of Monsieur Charles Jacob de Bleschamp, lawyer and director of the local tobacco warehouse, and Dame Philiberte Jeanne Louise Bouvet.
Sep 15, 2020 · In this example, Canova has created an idealized female form, though this plaster cast was originally developed as part of a portrait commission. Canova replaced the original head of Alexandrine de Bleschamp, wife of Lucien Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother), with one of a more idealized beauty, evident by the seam visible around the neck.
