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From the publishers: From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers […] and Civil War Wives […], here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and …
Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her notorious behavior, dashing husband, and associations with European royalty, Elizabeth became ...
1 de ene. de 2014 · Born in 1785, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte lived a life more typical of women one hundred years later. Though her father’s self-made American wealth could have supported her, a life-long feud with her father over her short, youthful marriage to Jerome Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother,) an unrelenting desire to live in Europe, and the determination to live a dignified and independent life ...
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, who would be called “ Madame Bonaparte ” until her death in 1879, despised the narrowness of her own country and rejoiced in living in Europe, where “ the purposes of life are all fulfilled. … Beauty commands homage, talents secure admiration, misfortune meets with respect.
Elizabeth Patterson (Baltimore, 6 februari 1785 – aldaar, 4 april 1879), was de eerste vrouw van Jérôme Bonaparte, de broer van keizer Napoleon I. Ze was de dochter van William Patterson, een Ierse katholieke immigrant die een van de rijkste zakenlieden in de staat Maryland was geworden.
The belle of Baltimore, Elizabeth Patterson met 19-year-old Jérôme Bonaparte, the younger brother of Napoleon, on his visit to the United States in 1803. Although he was underage and forbidden to marry without his mother's consent, he proposed to Elizabeth through the Spanish ambassador, and the two married within a month of their meeting.
22 de may. de 2012 · Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic - Kindle edition by Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic.
- Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
