Wondrous beauty : the life and adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte / Carol Berkin.

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 States...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berkin, Carol (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, > 1785-1879.
Jérôme Bonaparte, > King of Westphalia, > 1784-1860.
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Family.
Women > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) > Biography.
NonFiction.
Historical.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
NonFiction.
Historical.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xiii, 237 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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