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From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to J?r?me Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England. In Wondrous Beauty, Carol Berkin tells the story of this audacious, outsized life. We see how the news of the union infuriated Napoleon and resulted in his banning the then­pregnant Betsy Bonaparte from disembarking in any European port, offering his brother the threat of remaining married to that “American girl” and forfeiting all wealth and power—or renouncing her, marrying a woman of Napoleon’s choice, and reaping the benefits. J?r?me ended the marriage posthaste and was made king of Westphalia; Betsy fled to England, gave birth to her son and only child, J?r?me’s namesake, and was embraced by the English

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Author

Berkin, Carol

Publisher

Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307476258

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.58 / 5 (188 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14