A piece of jewelry that has not been seen for a long time tells a story......Actually, there must be at least two pieces of jewelry, and the introduction is them
Their former owner is the protagonist of this story, Mathilde Bonaparte.
From the surname, it can be seen that Mathilde is the niece of a generation of giants Napoleon, that is, the daughter of his younger brother Jérôme and the second Catherine of Württemberg, but Mathilde has never met Napoleon = =
Portrait of Mathilde and her father.
Mathilde had a very ordinary childhood, mainly because the Battle of Waterloo (1815) took place five years before she was born, and she lived in exile with her parents in Florence and Rome for as long as she can remember.
When he was 15 years old, his mother Catherine died, and the waste wood such as Jérôme basically relied on his father-in-law's property, and as soon as Catherine left Württemberg, there was naturally no need to give face to this prodigal son-in-law, and Jérôme immediately fell into financial difficulties.
Also in the same year, Mathilde became engaged to her cousin Louis Bonaparte Jr., who would later be Napoleon ......IIIAlthough, according to modern research, Nasan is probably not Mathilde's cousin
The marriage did not work out in the end, specifically related to external opposition and the conditions of the two parties were not negotiated, but the direct reason was that the three failed to do things and were locked up = =
During that time, the abstract portrait of the three looks like this.
Five years later, 20-year-old Mathilde ushered in her first marriage, and the other party was Anatole, the Count of Florence, a very wealthy ** diplomat.
In addition to being rich, Anatol has no obvious advantages, he has a rough temperament, both men and women, and brings ** in and out without giving face to Mathilde. At a certain banquet, there was even a bloody scene in which the wife scolded ** shamelessly and the scumbag slapped the wife.
It's impossible to live this life, but money is a very serious issue.
At the time of the marriage, it was agreed that Mathilde would receive a dowry of 290,000 francs, of which 50,000 would be jewels and 240,000 in cash in installments. But Jérôme was too poor and wasteful, and Anatole gave 1 million directly with a wave of his hand, which was a one-time buyout of the jewelry.
By 1846, Mathilde had fled to Paris with jewels and her artist lover, Count Emilion, leaving Anatole with no money.
The lover looks like this, and the men Mathilde has information about 10 years older than her.
But at that time, Tsar Nicholas I was Mathilde's cousin (her mother was also a princess of Württemberg), and because there were people in the court, the St. Petersburg court did not help and ordered Anatole to still pay Mathilde 200,000 francs a year in alimony, but Mathilde did not say a word about returning the jewelry.
In 1847, Nicholas I privately decided to allow the two to separate.
As Mathilde settles her first marriage, her ex-fiancé and false cousin Nasan also has his own highlight moment. In the second year of Mathilde's separation, Nasan was elected to the Second French Republic**.
At the age of 40, although he had a lover, he was obviously unmarried, and Mathilde strongly supported him in his election and even mortgaged his jewelry to 50w, so it seemed very logical for his cousin to become the mistress of the Elysee Palace.
He said that the term first lady appeared later, but in fact Mathilde was the first first lady of France, just throughout the first term of office of Nasan, and it was not until 1853 that Nasan got married before he retired.
Mathilde herself is an art lover and has a certain degree of attainment, and she will hold many art and literary salons on a daily basis, and will also sponsor poor artists. She did not like red tape, did not adhere to the political opinions of her guests, and was very polite to people, so she made a large number of friends in the literary and artistic circles, including Flaubert, Turgenev, Alexandre Dumas, etc., who were her guests, and was praised as "Notre-Dame de Art".
Mathilde's watercolor.
Some paintings depicting the Salon Mathilde.
Feeding the chicken mentioned that Mathilde had a slight episode along the way, but it was generally smooth, but she was very sober, saying that she was just lucky to have an uncle named Napoleon, and often said that if there was no Napoleon I, she would have been a passerby selling oranges on the street.
It may have been this personality that made her even live well in the Third Republic, only briefly in exile in Belgium in the same year that the Second Empire fell, but returned to France the following year, and she was the only member of the Bonaparte family to remain in France after voting in the Second Exile Act.
Unlike Daddy, Mathilde was in a good financial situation, and in 1851 she bought a large house in the small town of San Gratier, also known as Mathilde Palace. There is also a mansion on rue Berry, near the Champs-Élysées.
This is now the Mathilde Palace.
In 1896, when ZF invited her to attend the welcoming ceremony of Nicholas II and his wife at the Invalides, Mathilde, who was in her 70s at the time, said that she had the key and did not need any invitation, and she would not attend the ceremony unless she could walk around.
It seems that in the end, Admiral Dupere specially invited her over.
Mathilde in her later years and her last lover, the poet Claudius Poppelin. English feeder said they had been married in secret, but French fed chicken said pure roadside society, Mathilde denied remarriage and didn't know much ==
Mathilde died at home in 1904 at the age of 84.
Mathilde didn't have any children, either because of a physical problem or because she didn't have the idea at all. After her death, her jewelry was auctioned off in the same year, and it was basically scattered all over the world.
Pink diamond rings and rose brooches are among the few that can still be known to future generations.
15 years, 15.9 million dollars.
04 years, 700,000 dollars.
In recent years, I have seen some small pieces.
Lilac brooch made by Mellerio.
* Diamond bracelets.
n local tyrant gold bracelets.
In any case, in France, where there were few days of stability in the 19th century, even upper-class women, it was indeed rare for them to live as well as Mathilde.
Old fans know that I don't like value very much, as Mathilde herself said, first of all, it is good luck to be reincarnated, and secondly, vision, character, and talent play a role.
Finally, I saw an article saying that Mathilde's death was indirectly caused by a broken femur ......from a trip over a skirt a few months earlierHarm, some clothing has its reasons and inevitability to become history.