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6 de mar. de 2014 · Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was a self-made American who refused to dim her love for the old world. Wondrous Beauty is the story of a woman who entered the nineteenth century far before her time — it was America that would have to catch up. Michelle Legro is an associate editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. You can find her on Twitter.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte died on April 4, 1879, at the age of 94. Her funeral was held at her daughter-in-law’s house and was attended by only the immediate family and a few friends. She was buried in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery, under the epitaph: “After life’s fitful fever she sleeps well.”.
Elizabeth Patterson-Bonaparte est enterrée au cimetière de Greenmount à Baltimore. Ironie de l'histoire, la veuve de son frère, Marianne (Caton) Patterson, se remaria avec Richard Wellesley, premier marquis de Wellesley, frère aîné d'Arthur Wellesley, 1 er duc de Wellington, le vainqueur de Napoléon à Waterloo.
10 de dic. de 2021 · As she aged, Elizabeth lived alone in Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood in Mrs. Gwinn’s boarding house. Neighbors often spotted her walking among her properties to collect rent. At her death in 1879, Elizabeth was worth about $1.5 million. She outlived her son, who died in 1870. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte is buried in Green Mount Cemetery.
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.
22 de nov. de 2023 · So says the epitaph etched on Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s tombstone in Green Mount Cemetery. The fever perhaps first flared when her notorious brother-in-law objected to her nuptials to Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon’s younger brother, on Christmas Eve in 1803.
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.
