Review: The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hull Chatlien

Release date: December 2, 2013 at  Amika Press

484 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1937484163

Buy links: Available from
Amika Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble

As a clever girl in stodgy, mercantile Baltimore, Betsy Patterson dreams of a marriage that will transport her to cultured Europe. When she falls in love with and marries Jerome Bonaparte, she believes her dream has come true—until Jerome’s older brother Napoleon becomes an implacable enemy.Based on a true story, The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte is a historical novel that portrays this woman’s tumultuous life. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, known to history as Betsy Bonaparte, scandalized Washington with her daring French fashions; visited Niagara Falls when it was an unsettled wilderness; survived a shipwreck and run-ins with British…