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Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, 1850. 'The ex-King Jerome has just been raised to the dignity of Marshal of France...Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the youngest of the brothers of Napoleon, was born at Ajaccio, in the island of Corsica, on the 15th of November, 1784...in 1803, [he] married a Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the daughter of a Baltimore merchant. When the young couple came to Europe, in 1805, Napoleon would not receive the bride as a member of the Imperial family; and at length, not without opposition on the part of the young sailor, the marriage was annulled, after one or two children had been born'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.