Jacques Pierre Abbatucci, a French general, bora in Corsica in 1726, died in 1812. He was a rival and political opponent of Paoli, but submitted to his control in the war with the Genoese. After the French conquest, which he resisted at first, he accepted a commission in the royal army, and was subsequently appointed to protect Corsica against the attempts of Paoli and the English. After the capture of Toulon he resigned and returned to France, where he was made general of division. He remained there till 1796, when, the English leaving Corsica, he went home.

II. Charles, son of the preceding, born in 1771, died Dec. 3, 1796. He served in the early part of the revolution as artillery officer on the Rhine, and in 1794 was Pichegru's adjutant. He was made general of brigade for bravery in 1796, and afterward general of division for defeating the corps of the prince of Condé. He died from a wound received in an engagement with the Austrians at Hünin-gen, where Moreau caused a monument to be erected to his memory.

III. Jacques Pierre Charles, a diplomatist, nephew of the preceding, born in Corsica, Dec. 22, 1791, died Nov. 11, 1857. Under the restoration he was a law officer in Corsica. After the revolution of 1830 he was appointed presiding judge at Orleans, and from 1839 was its representative in the chamber of deputies. He was a leader of the opposition to Guizot's ministry, and afterward of the reform banquets. After 1848 he was conspicuous in the national assembly by his opposition to the social-democratic movement. He subsequently became a zealous supporter of Louis Napoleon, and after the coup d'etat was appointed by him minister of justice and keeper of the seals, Jan. 22, 1852. His sons, Charles (born March 25, 1816), An-toine Dominique, and SÉverin, all figured under the second empire as active Bonapartists, the last chiefiy as representative from Corsica.