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2 unusual facts about Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte


Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte

It is speculated that Jérôme's prospective title is a reason the 11th Congress of the United States in 1810 proposed the Titles of Nobility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would strip an American of his citizenship if he accepted a title of nobility from a foreign nation.

He married Susan May Williams, and it is from them that the American line of the Bonaparte family descended.


Susan May Williams

In November 1829, Susan became the wife of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte-Patterson (1805–70), son of the King of Westphalia (Napoleon's youngest brother) and his American first wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson.


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