num_pages: 320
description: Baltimore’s high-spirited, independent and controversial Betsy Patterson married Napoleon’s brother Jerome in 1803, bore a son, and defied the angry Emperor. Originally published in France in 1988, this lively biography takes the reader into the intrigues in France and early 19th-century Baltimore.
language: English
title: Betsy Bonaparte: The Belle of Baltimore
titlecomplete: Betsy Bonaparte: The Belle of Baltimore
genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14
publisher: The Maryland Center for History and Culture