Mathilde Bonaparte
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| Mathilde Bonaparte | |||||
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| Princesse Française | |||||
Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato | |||||
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| House | Bonaparte | ||||
| Father | Jérôme Bonaparte | ||||
| Mother | Catharina of Württemberg | ||||
Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française,
Biography
Born in
The marriage between these two strong and prominent personalities was stormy. Prince Demidov insisted on keeping his mistress, Valentine, Duchess of Dino, which of course was fiercely resisted by Mathilde. In 1846, Mathilde fled the household for Paris with her new lover Émilien de Nieuwerkerke and with Anatole's jewelry. The jewelry constituted the dowry that Anatole was forced to bankroll for his father-in-law, so it formed the property of Anatole.
Princess Mathilde's mother was Emperor Nicholas I of Russia's first cousin, and the emperor supported Mathilde in her clashes with her spouse, a Russian subject. As consequence, Anatole chose to live much of his remaining life outside Russia.
The terms of the
Princess Mathilde lived in a mansion in
At the fall of the monarchy in 1870, she lived in
She died in Paris in 1904, aged 83.
In culture
An aged Princess Mathilde makes a brief appearance in Proust's À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (In the Shadow of Young Girls In Flower), the second volume of
Princess Mathilde is referred to several times in Gore Vidal's novel 1876 as being a friend of the fictional narrator, Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. She is also mentioned by the Portuguese romantic realist Eça de Queiroz in one of his most relevant posthumous novels To the Capital (novel).
Ancestry
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Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0297763369.
External links
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