1. Mathilde Bonaparte was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Wurttemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Wurttemberg.
12 Facts About Mathilde Bonaparte
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Mathilde Bonaparte was originally engaged to her first cousin, the future Napoleon III of France, but the engagement was cancelled following his imprisonment at Ham.
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Mathilde Bonaparte married a rich Russian nobleman, Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, on 1 November 1840 in Rome.
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In 1846, Mathilde Bonaparte fled the household for Paris with her new lover Emilien de Nieuwerkerke and with Anatole's jewelry.
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Princess Mathilde Bonaparte's mother was Emperor Nicholas I of Russia's first cousin, and the emperor supported Mathilde Bonaparte in her clashes with her spouse, a Russian subject.
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Princess Mathilde Bonaparte lived in a mansion in Paris, where, as a prominent member of the new aristocracy during and after the Second French Empire, she entertained eminent men of arts and letters at her salon.
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Mathilde Bonaparte disliked etiquette, but welcomed her visitors, according to Abel Hermant, with an extreme refinement of snobbery and politeness.
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Mathilde Bonaparte was the only member of the Bonaparte family to stay in France after May 1886, when the French Republic expelled the princes of the former ruling dynasties.
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Mathilde Bonaparte died in Paris on 2 January 1904 aged 83.
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An aged Princess Mathilde Bonaparte makes a brief appearance in Proust's A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time.
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Princess Mathilde Bonaparte is referred to several times in Gore Vidal's novel 1876 as being a friend of the fictional narrator, Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler.
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Mathilde Bonaparte is mentioned by the Portuguese romantic realist Eca de Queiroz in one of his most relevant posthumous novels To the Capital.