Wondrous Beauty: Betsy Bonaparte, the Belle of Baltimore who Married Napoleon's Brother

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"From the award-winning historian an author of Revolutionary Mothers here is 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, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England.

Wondrous Beauty is a riveting portrait of a woman torn between two worlds, unable to find peace in either - one a provincial, convention-bound new America; the other a sophisticated, extravagant Old World Europe that embraced freedoms, a Europe ultimately swallowed up by decadence and idleness."

Publisher : Knopf; First Edition (February 11, 2014)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0307592782
ISBN-13 : 978-0307592781
Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches