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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (February 6, 1785 – April 4, 1879) was an American socialite. She was the daughter of Baltimore merchant William Patterson and the first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte , Napoleon 's youngest brother.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of America’s first international celebrities, known for her fashionable clothing, witty remarks, fierce independence, and ties to the Bonapartes of France. She was married briefly to Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia and youngest brother of Napoleon I.
Mar 6, 2014 · Elizabeth Patterson’s wedding dress when she married Jerome Bonaparte in 1804. The dress was the height of European fashion, but Americans called her ‘an almost naked woman.’ (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) The marriage was an international incident, a suggestion that America and France might be allied.
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was a Baltimore belle who wrote that “nature never intended me for obscurity.” (1) She became an international celebrity when she married Napoleon’s youngest brother Jérôme. When Napoleon convinced Jérôme to abandon her, Betsy (as she was known) became America’s most famous single mother.
Jul 8, 2018 · Approximately twenty years after the executions of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, France was poised to become an empire under Napoleon Bonaparte. Amidst these changes, a scandal occurred when Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jérôme, surprised the world by marrying Miss Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland.
Aug 14, 2022 · Exhibition 'Woman of Two Worlds' tells the story of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, native Marylander and wife of Napolean's younger brother.
From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers […] and Civil War Wives […], here is 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 ...
