LUCCA, REPUBLIC OF

also called Luccan Republic, French Rpublique Lucquoise, Italian Repubblica Lucchese, republic established by Napoleon Bonaparte in Lucca and its environs on Dec. 27, 1801, after his second successful conquest of Italy, driving out the Austrians. It lasted less than four years; in June 1805 he granted Lucca to his sister lisa Bonaparte as a principality, part of the new French Empire.