Mathilde Bonaparte
May 27, 1820: Mathilde Bonaparte, Princesse Française, was born in Trieste to Jérôme Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg. Her paternal uncle was Emperor Napoléon I, and her maternal grandfather was King Friedrich I of Württemberg. Although originally engaged to her first cousin, the future Emperor Napoléon III of France, she broke the engagement and instead married a rich Russian nobleman, Anatole Demidov, a marriage which turned out to be stormy and unhappy almost from the beginning. After her separation from her husband, she lived in Paris and was a hostess to men of arts and letters as a salon holder.
[Portrait by Édouard Dubufe]
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