Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French engineer
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse
- Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse (13 January 1845 – 15 June 1909) was a French engineer.
- He was born in Paris as the son of Laetitia Bonaparte-Wyse, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte and estranged wife of the Irish politician Sir Thomas Wyse, Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse's real father was a British army officer, Captain Studholm John Hodgson.
- He joined the French navy as a midshipman on the ship Amphion, based in Toulon.
- Commissioned by the French company Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama he obtained a concession to build a canal from the Colombian government.
- He made two trips to Panama to study the project and the concluded it was feasible.
- The agreement, known as the "Wyse Concession" was valid 99 years and allowed the company to dig a canal and exploit it.
- The Panama Scandal allowed Ferdinand de Lesseps to redeem the rights.
- After this Bonaparte Wyse wrote his memoirs, intending to prove to investors that the project was viable.
- The United States would get the concession and build the canal.
- He married on 14 September 1871, in London, Mary Rose White (Port-au-Prince 1855 - Nice 1875) : Napoléon Jérôme Bonaparte-Wyse (1874-1940) married in 1904 Antoinette de Raoulx de Raousset-Boulbon (1881-1931).
- They had one daughter and one son. Marie Letizia Bonaparte-Wyse (1875-1959) married in 1895, in Toulon, Rear Admiral Aristide Henry Nicolas Denis Bergasse du Petit-Thouars (1872-1932).
- They had four daughters.He died at Cap Brun in Cannes on 15 June 1909, at the age of 64 years.
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