Wondrous beauty the life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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 political histories of the United Stat...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "She is a most extraordinary girl"
- "I would rather be the wife of Jerome Bonaparte for an hour"
- "An almost naked woman"
- "Have confidence in your husband"
- "Madame Bonaparte is ambitious"
- "I intend to be governed by my own rules"
- "I shall resume the name of my own family"
- "The purposes of life are all fulfilled"
- "Your ideas soar'd too high"
- "For this life there is nothing but disappointment"
- "That was my American wife"
- "He had neither my pride, my ambition, nor my love of good company"
- "Disgusted with the past, despairing of a future"
- "My birth is legitimate"
- "I will not be dupe enough to ever try justice in France"
- "Once I had everything but money; now I have nothing but money"
- Conclusion: "I have lived alone and I will die alone"
- Epilogue: The American Bonapartes.
