A FRATERNAL HANDFUL
Under the title of "Jovial King" (Elkiu, Matthews, and Mamot), P. M. Kircheisen has written in attractive style about Jerome, Napoleon's youngest brother. Sent to the colonies at sixteen as a naval cadet, married at nineteen in America to the merchant's daughter, Elizabeth Patterson —a marriage which Napoleon declared invalid—later for a short time an Imperial Prince and leader of an Army Corps, the frivolous and irresponsible Jerome, devoid of all.moral seriousness, was eventually married by his great brother to the daughter of the King of AVurtemburg and set on the throne of the Kingdom of "Westphalia, specially created for him, from whose elevation lie reigned as "Jovial King" with external brilliance but disastrously for the country. The biography of the youngest Bonaparte is the history of an unexampled ascent, such as could only take_ place against the agitated background of a stirring time and in the shadow of such an extraordinary man as Napoleon—and in its tragic-comic ■ progress it is at the same time a satiric (pendant to the heroic and tragic lifehistory .of the Trench Emperor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22
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181A FRATERNAL HANDFUL Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22
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