Wondrous Beauty Quotes

“the often depressed and sexually ambivalent Louis”
― Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

“Betsy was flattered but apparently unmoved by the admiration of local suitors. If she assumed, as surely all girls of her class and era did, that marriage and motherhood were an inevitable part of female life, she nevertheless nurtured a hope that someone would rescue her from the dull and constricting married life that lay ahead. And in 1803 that hope seemed to become a reality when a handsome stranger appeared in staid Baltimore City. His name was Jérôme Bonaparte, and he was the youngest brother of the first consul of France, Napoleon.”
― Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte