Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-05
Eea:f CT Madame BGaspartC,

iiIuC;: Jcs.aiGoY at ql3TicT past C0e ciCcE l..
II s;;cr 81 i.acai Of lG7ersl w:ek. Sioca
TrcsGy: Ia.i sbe has been unc0u0scIous ana
kept alive by st!Gn!aots There we're present
st hor dsath Dad her rhysician, DR.. 5. 1.
Macksr a.; her G-an1ao2a, ColoIe! jerome
Napoleon aci Charles Joseph BoDpsrie; Mrs.
George Patterson, widow u her brother, the
late Georsc Patttrsoo, ard Mra. CLARK, rela'
ike, VITO has been her faithful attendant aud
nuGsc fer tie past len years or molc She lett
end estate valued at 81 100000.
The American says:
'incre has never lived 10 Baltimore wo'
laa ah.uE who's, history has cung so mush
Of fopaoca as crcircles the l'is Il Madame
| Ehzlbath Pattcrs0a Bo1aparte. An absolute
retirement has been impossible 10 Ter since her
marriage with the iaitbIcss Jerome, fer With
each wen; that has brough the Imperial tlm-
IL bsi,ra The pubic Gsz., her partnership 10
the tis:oG7 Of that faUily les been recalled
| Her f,ae is Get familiar cue to the Baltimore
putlic, ioT rarely has she been seen by but lew
reorr Her dress 10 pubic Wss always
deep Illck. Occasionally she might have been
ecla ia ktr c.!llge rIdiGg through Diuid Hill
| Pail: Ct q bright sttercoor: Eut ssidc from 40
ecc.ssl,1ll walk and tho patk rides. Der op
Deayan3cS out oi doors have becD very lEtft Q1ent
lei foa0y years past.
Amng thosc with when she lived Madame
BonsparIe was always ka9wn as quiet, unas
supoicg woman, occupying modes: scat at the
table, aaG Jiai1g wi:S Others lr The common
conversation Of the house. Oae VINO ko.w her
i..imateiy, and ia who's, :oom she frequently
SIT fer huu!s a. time, spoke oil her as per
fec: encyclopedia Of FRENCH history, particular
- that # the time when Shc herself was SO
pToiu;rcni 81 acor On tbs Stage Ut tfanc:.-
tIed!n2 Dc S.acl aud other aahOls OF that
period enc knew well, and delighted TO talk OF
them, and she once said 10 this friend that
there were two persona then iainS whom SIC
T2uiG have given the world to nave se:n-Nl-
pvi:0o Bonapgrte and Lord Byron. No one
vas Eve. more enthusiastic adn!rer IL Napo
sou Ihaa E.s she, though it was bis iron hand
l1at wrecked icr happiness and sent her back
from Franco 10 Der Baltimore home husband
lass She had said that, eorld she have seen
Napocop, she might have changed the aspect
OF affairs, and very likely this would have been
so, 10: tho Miss Patterson that married Jerome
RoDepalic WAS q most beauUtu! end attractive
w3msn, and ntr irHuercs o3uld DO: hav, failed
CT como clirct. Napoleon, too. ls said to hsVc
expressed remarkable admiration for her. aud
seemed to have lear to meet tho wemGr he
90 hcar,ts2iy Wrcngcd. Much of her home
it,, vas spcn: IL writing pcEsoG.I "reminiscences,
which shu carefully preserved, and which, II
published, would doubtless N axe en- Interesting
YaluIe.
Tie story Ct her lie bcgios With her meeting
Jerome BCDG patte youngest brother OF Napoleon
| |. At tho house Of Samuel Chase, ooo OF the
Maryland s;g1ers Of tic Declaration Ct hide
pcadcrce. Capt. Booaparto made the aoTusin.
arco @. Miss Elizabeth Patterson, daughter OF
William Patterson, G highly respectable aud
wealthy Irish merchant Ct Baltimore. This
beautiful AID accomplished ysuog lady, it is
said, lad declared Irophctieaily. long before
sto i!a3 sen young Bolapa.lc, that some day
or oiLcr sic would become great lady 10
FraDcc and at party where they met 5000
af;cr their &C qlantanca B5napafte' sod chain
was accidentally thrown around her geek, CO
tqrgnr itself 90 IS to hold her f4st and as he
gree fully ciscnlAnglcd it Sho called TO mind
hfr straagc prophecy. lie wGs less ihan tEeoty
years Of aye, AID Misc Patterson, though pos
sCs-cl OF erect beauty, vas les than eighteen,
nol it Is said she s!rikiDRly rckem b!ed the Bon
aparte family.
The marriage ctr.!no5y wsj performed Ey
J0ha Carroll. Bishop Of Baltimore, 10 accord
arcc With tho litu,l cf tie Roman Catholic
ChurGu. The marriage conrac! Was drawn up
BIZ Alexander }. Daills, GutSIq ln1lly Secrctsry
| e ,h; Treasury. and witnessed by several eli
cll parscosgcS, Including The Mayor OF DilIl
more.
There ware on!y tw1 bridesmaids at the
wedding the Misses BrOSo, and no groomst
men. Jerome had imported Tor his bride a
superb wedding Gulf, bat her briia! attire
IVES staple Indie music, costly with old lac,
end the only ornament vas a string OF pearls
around her neck AS she has said hcrself ut
was gown hal frequently woro, for | par
ticularly wished to avoid vulgar display; a1d,
truth % say, there vas little as possible of any
gcBn al al dress in that dag being chiefly an
aid in sctiicg Of charms to advantage" This
blijaI gcar Is yet preserved. as well ss Jerome s
wefding suit RI laced and embroidered purple
saiia-ihc white satin lined pointed skirts
reaching to bis heels, NJ we'll C5 kccc b!ceohc5
and diamond buckles.
P0po Plus VII firmly resisted all the a.
tempts CT Napoleon TO have him apnul tic
marriage contract between jerome and EIizl-
beth Patterson, and though Nspoieons Couu.
Gil 81 State passed SD edics declaring it Gull
and void % E. ciri bond, yet tho Pope
Tcmaincd stcadisst 10 Lis refusal to
grant divorce. 10 1854 jerome, the 500
Of Madame B5rapartc, 10 company with lis
SOD, Jerome, paid visit 10 Louis Napoleon
at paTs, and as they entered tho royal
palace they vera handed by the emDeror him.
ao!G m opinion Of tho Minister ofJustica that
the msreisgo Of tho Prince jerome aud Miss
Patterson was loyal. Prince jerome, would
not conaont to he recognition ofhis sons le2t-
mscy on these grounds, and so expressed him
self to the Emperor. Napoleon Ill. answered
that tha laws of Franco recognized the son Of
| Miss Patterson as legitimate, ard on August 50.
| ISL, a decree appeared in tn Bulletin do Lois
affirming that M. Jerome Bonaparto est rein.
tegre dams Il quste Go Francois" This ended
tho question CT the Legitimacy ofthe marriage
and il cd tho place of the Baltimore BoRspsrtes
| IN the imperial line.
Tho Sun says
1T was this old ladg's strange destiny 10 sac
three generations of The family that had refused
to le2itlim:se her marriage and rejected her
from France. themselves rejected and expelled,
aliens.ed and oxiled, and she, the only unrecog-
n:z:d member Of the proper household of Napo-
leon the Great. survived them all, and died. as
sho had lived, in the home Of her childhood.
The rccognizance which the French courts aud