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Princess Mathilde lived in a mansion in Paris, where, as a prominent member of the new aristocracy during and after the Second French Empire, she entertained eminent men of arts and letters at her salon. She disliked etiquette, but welcomed her visitors, according to Abel Hermant, with an extreme refinement of snobbery and politeness.
- Bonaparte
- Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato, Claudius Marcel Popelin
Biographie. Fille de Jérôme Bonaparte, ex-roi de Westphalie, et de sa deuxième épouse, Catherine de Wurtemberg, la princesse Mathilde est élevée à Rome et à Florence où ses parents sont en exil. En 1835, elle est fiancée à son cousin Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, futur Napoléon III.
- Salonnière, peintre, socialite
- française
- 27 mai 1820Trieste
Mathilde spent most of her life in Paris, holding a Salon during the Second Empire (emperor Napoleon III was her cousin). Following the death of Prince Demidov and the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, she lived in exile in Belgium for a while before returning to France, and allegedly married her lover, the artist and poet Claudius Marcel ...
one year later as emperor of the Second Empire, 1852 to 1870. Because he was unmarried, she be-came the de facto empress of France, acting as official hostess at the Orsay or the Tuileries. With the emperor's marriage to Eugenie de Montijo in 1853, Mathilde, who was the only Bonaparte of her generation favored with the court title Her
Mathilde fait office de maîtresse de maison au palais de l’Élysée. Sous le Second Empire et la Troisième République, elle tient à Paris un salon littéraire couru où paraissent les plus grands noms. Après la chute de l’Empire en 1870, elle s’exile quelque temps en Belgique puis elle revient en France. Elle est le seul membre de la ...
Princess Mathilde was extremely influential during the Second Empire because of her close friendship with her cousin Napoleon III. (She was one of the many who opposed his marriage to Empress Eugénie .)
Even as an official artist to the court during the Second Empire, Carpeaux remained a brilliant creative force, capable of marrying classical and baroque influences with the passion of the great romantics of the 19th century.
