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050 0 0 _aDC216.95.B629
_bB47 2014
082 1 _a92 BON
_2
100 1 _aBerkin, Carol
245 1 0 _aWondrous beauty :
_bthe life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
_c/ Carol Berkin.
300 _a237 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 21 cm
505 0 _a"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.
520 3 _aThe 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 States, France, and England.
546 _aEnglish.
600 1 4 _aBonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson
_d(1785 - 1879)
600 1 4 _aBonaparte, Jérôme
_cKing of Westphalia
_d(1784 - 1860)
600 1 4 _aNapoleon
_bI
_c, Emperor of the French
_d(, 1769-1821)
650 4 _aWomen
_z-Maryland
_z-Baltimore --
_vBiographie
651 4 _aBaltimore, MD --
_vBiographie
942 _cMO
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