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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Berkin, Carol.     Subjects     Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879.     Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 1784-1860.     Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Family -- Biography.     Women -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.     Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 19th century.     Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Berkin, Carol.       by title:      Wondrous beauty : th...       by call number:      944.05 P317b     Search the Web     Berkin, Carol.     Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879.     Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 1784-1860.     Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Family -- Biography.     Women -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.     Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 19th century.     Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Wondrous beauty : the life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte / Carol Berkin. by Berkin, Carol. Alfred A. Knopf, c2014. Call #: 944.05 P317b Subjects Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879.   Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, 1784-1860.   Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Family -- Biography.   Women -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.   Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 19th century.   Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780307592781 (hc.) 0307592782 (hc.) Alternate title:  Life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiii, 237 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi Book."--T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  The remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 944.05 P317b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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