The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-02-11

dlately left the gallery, and the next morn
ing quilted Florence.
Although Napoleon declared the mar
riage of Jerome and Miss Patterson null
and void, he could never induce the Pope
to SO declare it; and few years ago, when
the question, as to the rank of which the
Bonapartes of Baltimore were entitled as
princes OF the imperial household was up
for decision, the protest of the Pope against
the decree OF Napoleon was brought for
ward.
Soon after the birth of her son Madame
Bonaparte returned to Baltimore, where
she has principally resided ever since, in
the enjoyment of large fortune. She was
about eighteen years of age when she first
met Jerome Bonaparte, and is now about
eighty-tive. She was always a great admi-
rer of Napoleon, in spite of the cruel man.
ner in which he treated her. 1t is said
that she believes that her grandson will
yet be the Emperor of France.
Madame Bonapartes son, Jerome Napo-
leon, now in the sixty-fifth yoar, has lived
/ In Baltimore since his boyhood. He was
educated at Harvard College, where he
graduated in 1926. He afterwards studied
law, but never practised at the bar When
quite young man he married very
wealthy lady, Miss Susan Mary Williams,
originally of Roxbury, Mass, and has since
devoted his time to the management of his
large estate and to agricultural pursuits
His own fortune added to that of his wife,
made him one of the wealthiest men in
Baltimore. He visited his father several
times in Europe, and for many years re-
ceived from him large allowance. He is
on good terms with Louis Napoleon, and
has once visited the French Court accom-
panied by one ofhi sons, upon an invita-
ton from the Emperor. During the reign
OF Louis Philippe he was permitted to re-
main in Paris for short time, but was re-
quired to assume his mothers name of Pat.
terson.
Mr.. Bonaparte has two children, Jerome
Napoleon, who was borne in Baltimore in
1882, and Charles Joseph born in 1862
The first named graduated at West Point
at the age of twenty, and after remaining
short time in the United States army,
resigned his commission and entered
that Of France as a sub lieutenant He was
with the French and English allies in the
Crimea, and received decoration from
the Sultan of Turkey for his gallant con-
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Mr.. Bonaparte is said to bear strong
personal resemblance to his uncle, the first
Napoleon. If the validity of his fathers
marriage with Miss Patterson was recog-
nized by the Court of France, it would
give him and his children precedence over
his half-brothers and their sister, the Prin-
cess Mathilde, the children of jerome by
his second wife. Efforts to secure such
recognition have been made on perhaps
more than one occasion, but they failed,
though how far they fell short of success
has never been known to the public. Jer-
ONE HIMSELF who died at venerable old
age year or two ago, bitterly opposed all
such efforts to obtain precedence for the
Baltimore Bonapartes, and would &C.
knowledge them only by the name of Pat
terson.
The scrimmage now going on in Paris
is peculiar. The American Bonapartes
are republicans and so are the agitators
in the Corps Legislatif. 1t may afford
some of them an opportunity, and q Pat
terson may yet occupy the Tuileries as
Prince President, just as Louis Beauhar-
nais, occupied the palace in 1S49. At all
events the story is worth retelling as more
as more or less apropos Of Transporting
events in France, in which the Bonapartes,
their past, present, and future, bear such
close relation. jerome Bonaparte acted
badly enough to Miss Patterson. Nor has
his family done much better. 1t would
be piece of poetic justice if Time should
balance the account