Jacques Pierre Abbatucci

Jacques Pierre Abbatucci (Geacoms Petro Abbatucci) (7 September 1723 in Zicavo, Corsica – 17 March 1813 in Ajaccio) was a Corsican who became an officer in the army of Genoese Corsica, ancien regime France and the First French Republic.

His father was Jean Séverin Antoine Abbatucci, a Corsican general in the service of the Venetian Republic, and his mother was Rose Paganelli, daughter of the Corsican general Dominique Paganelli, known as Zicavo. Jacques Pierre's three sons also served in the French Republican army:

Jacque Pierre's grandson Jacques Pierre Abbatucci was a government minister during the French Second Empire

He studied at the Jesuit collège in Brescia, before graduating with a doctorate in medicine from the university of Padua in 1746. He moved back to Corsica where in 1753, after the assassination of Gian Pietro Gaffori, he became an advisor to Petreto, lieutenant-general of the Pieve militia in Ornano, Istria, Rocca and Talavu. The situation on the island at that time was very tense - Genoa was trying desperately to hold onto the island, but the departure of the French troops commanded Cursay put this in a perilous situation. In 1755 Pasquale Paoli was elected general of the Corsicans by 16 of the 66 pievi or provinces, with the four southern pievi (including Abbatucci's) joining him in 1757. Abbatucci was elected lieutenant general of the south of the island in 1763, in what was effectively an internal coup within the Corsica militias. This led to his arrest and imprisonment at Corte by Paoli from November 1763 to May 1764, after which he was banished. Even so he remained on Corsica until 1766, before leaving for Tuscany.

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