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Madame Jerome Bonaparte

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Day
7
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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In Sfi-ibnrr'n for May dure is uu inleresting account of "The Baltimote Bonaparte," by E. L. Didier, accowipanied .by striking portraits of Jcrome anil Madame Bonaparte, theit sou and grandson. We quote as follows : "Madame Bonapart is stül living in Baltimore, at the age of ninety years. She says she luis no intentiou of dying nntil she is a busdred. She has been to Enivpe sixteen timen, and ooatemplate another.trjp tliin smnmer. This old lady has more vivacity and oeiUiinly more intelligcncc than many of the leiwling women of fashion of tlio present day. SIk; expresaes her opinión apon all subjects with great freedom, and sometames with bitterness. She has little or no ccmfldenco üi men ; and a very poor opinión of womon, thn young ladies of tho present day, she says, all have Qlg "notno mania." All sentiment she thinks a ■veakuess. She professes that her ambition bas ahvays been - not the throne, bui ncar the throne. Mr. Patterson, her father, dinl in lSiSii, at an advancod age, in possession of a large fortune. In his ■wiü, whioh is one of the most remarkable documenta that has ever been deposite d in the Orphans' Court of inore, he says : ' Ihe condnct oí ruy daughter, Betmey, li&sj througli lito, bcen s j disobedient that in no instance lias sho eyer oonsulted my opinión or feelinga ; iudeed, she luis caused me more anxiety and trouble than alUmy other children , .put together ; her folly and inisconduot ! Lave ocuasioned me a train of experienco tliat, first to last, has cost me mucli mmov' - iu this, ]ie means tlio marriage o' his daugliter to Jerome Bonaparte. The oíd gentleman left her, out of bis wealtli, only tliree or four small houses and the winea in his cellar - wortli in all about ten thousaud dollars. ' ' Madame Bonaparte is very rieh ; she has made her money by sucecssful speculations, anti by her life-long habit of saving. Tor years she has lived at a board! house in Baltimore, seeing very little company. Her costume is ancient, and there is notldug about her appearance that suggests the marvelous beauty that I led captive the heart of Jcrome Bonaparte. Her eyes alone retain somo of tiio brightness of formev days. ' ' For forty years, Madame Bonaparte kept a diary, in which she recorded lier views and observations of European and ' American society. Some of her remarks are severcly sarcastic. A well known 1 Boston publishing house, it is said, recenüy offered ten thousand dollars for the manuscript volumes, but Madame refused to sell them at auypricc, and has i committcd them to the custody of her younger grandsou, Charles Joseph, re'ecntly a law student of Harvard, now a rising ni(ïmborof t.hBaltiinore bar. Tliey wül probably bo ' jiulilishcd alter the I writer's death."

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Old News
Michigan Argus