LEADER 05748nam 2200781 450 001 9910821948303321 005 20211012005654.0 010 $a0-8122-9042-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290424 035 $a(CKB)3710000000086225 035 $a(OCoLC)874157967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10833821 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001163198 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652124 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001163198 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11160375 035 $a(PQKB)10770741 035 $a(OCoLC)607581698 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34765 035 $a(DE-B1597)449544 035 $a(OCoLC)1024017830 035 $a(OCoLC)1032685872 035 $a(OCoLC)1037940997 035 $a(OCoLC)1041985509 035 $a(OCoLC)1046610170 035 $a(OCoLC)1047010981 035 $a(OCoLC)1049631035 035 $a(OCoLC)1054876482 035 $a(OCoLC)979881240 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290424 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10833821 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682468 035 $a(OCoLC)932312990 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0004491 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442335 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000086225 100 $a20140212h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe man who had been King $ethe American exile of Napoleon's brother Joseph /$fPaticia Tyson Stroud 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2005. 210 4$d©2005 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51186-1 311 0 $a0-8122-3872-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. A New Life --$tChapter 2. A Man of Property --$tChapter 3. Alone --$tChapter 4. Friends, Family, and Anna --$tChapter 5. Point Breeze --$tChapter 6. Bonaparte's Park --$tChapter 7. The Last of Napoleon --$tChapter 8. Charlotte --$tChapter 9. Zénaïde and Charles --$tChapter 10. Emilie --$tChapter 11. Connoisseur and Collector --$tChapter 12. Lafayette Changes His Position --$tChapter 13. The Siren Call of Europe --$tChapter 14. A Bonaparte in England --$tChapter 15. Return to Point Breeze --$tChapter 16. Death in the Family --$tChapter 17. Farewell to America --$tEpilogue --$tChronology --$tDramatis Personae --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aJoseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and oversee the maintenance of his property. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to become that country gentleman at last, but in a place he could scarcely have imagined. It comes as a surprise to most people that Joseph spent seventeen years in the United States following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In The Man Who Had Been King, Patricia Tyson Stroud has written a rich account-drawing on unpublished Bonaparte family letters-of this American exile, much of it passed in regal splendor high above the banks of the Delaware River in New Jersey. Upon his escape from France in 1815, Joseph arrived in the new land with a fortune in hand and shortly embarked upon building and fitting out the magnificent New Jersey estate he called Point Breeze. The palatial house was filled with paintings and sculpture by such luminaries as David, Canova, Rubens, and Titian. The surrounding park extended to 1,800 acres of luxuriously landscaped gardens, with twelve miles of carriage roads, an artificial lake, and a network of subterranean tunnels that aroused much local speculation. Stroud recounts how Joseph became friend and host to many of the nation's wealthiest and most cultivated citizens, and how his art collection played a crucial role in transmitting high European taste to America. He never ceased longing for his homeland, however. Despite his republican airs, he never stopped styling himself as "the Count de Survilliers," a noble title he fabricated on his first flight from France in 1814, when Napoleon was exiled to Elba, nor did he ever learn more than rudimentary English. Although he would repeatedly plead with his wife to join him, he was not a faithful husband, and Stroud narrates his affairs with an American and a Frenchwoman, both of whom bore him children. Yet he continued to feel the separation from his two legitimate daughters keenly and never stopped plotting to ensure the dynastic survival of the Bonapartes.In the end, the man who had been king returned to Europe, where he was eventually interred next to the tomb of his brother in Les Invalides. But the legacy of Joseph Bonaparte in America remains, and it is this that Patricia Tyson Stroud has masterfully uncovered in a book that is sure to appeal to lovers of art and gardens and European and American history. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical$2bisacsh 607 $aSpain$xKings and rulers$vBiography 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aBooks of Regional Interest. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. 676 $a944.05/092 700 $aStroud$b Patricia Tyson$01618978 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821948303321 996 $aThe man who had been King$93951001 997 $aUNINA