When worlds collide

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

This newsletter is republished from the archive and was first issued in January 2022.

All the Misery of my life I lay at the door of Wm P & the the old Bigamist Gentleman Jerome the double-distilled traitor.

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785 — 1879) wrote this in 1867, as her ex-husband’s nephew, Emperor Louis Napoléon, sat securely on the throne of th…