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100 1 $aStroud, Patricia Tyson.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92011595
245 14 $aThe man who had been King :$bthe American exile of Napoleon's brother Joseph /$cPatricia Tyson Stroud.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axii, 269 pages :$billustrations (some color), 1 map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
520 1 $a"Joseph 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 and country gentleman in his native Corsica. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to retire to the country 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" "Joseph arrived in America 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, and a network of subterranean tunnels that aroused much local speculation." "Joseph became friend and host to many of the nation's wealthiest and most cultivated citizens, and 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 styled himself as "the Count de Survilliers," and he ever learned more than rudimentary English. Although he would repeatedly plead with his wife to join him, he was not a faithful husband, and and he fathered children by two other women in America. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aJoseph Bonaparte,$cKing of Spain,$d1768-1844$xExile$zUnited States.
600 00 $aNapoleon$bI,$cEmperor of the French,$d1769-1821$xFamily.
651 0 $aSpain$xKings and rulers$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117145
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