Blanchard Randall and the Bonapartes: Difference between revisions

 

::Her son [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jérôme_Napoléon_Bonaparte Jerome] I remember seeing on Charles Street driving a pair of horses and seated in a high English cart, full smooth face somewhat Napoleonic but rather fat. My mother called my attention to this figure telling me that he was Napoleon’s nephew and the son of Jerome. This must have been somewhere about 1868 or 69.

::[Soon after the encounter with Madam Bonaparte], I met [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte Mr. Charles Joseph Bonaparte] who had been a friend of my brother, [https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001600/001611/html/msa01611.html John Wirt Randall], they having some law business together. He was always very kind to me and on more than one occasion I was invited to his house on the corner of Park Avenue and Center streets. He was [a] ….great friend of [Johns Hopkins University] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Coit_Gilman President Gilman’s] and also an intimate friend of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt President Theodore Roosevelt], who then was slightly built and weigh[ed] very much less than Mr. Bonaparte. In twenty years this order changed; Mr. Bonaparte seemed always to keep his figure, Roosevelt did not.