Elisa Bonaparte - Napoleonic Historical Society
Eliza Bonaparte's husband probably wished she had
eloped with someone else because of all the
trauma she put him through with her various affairs as well as blue blooded attitudes to those without the Bonaparte bloodline.
Writing about Eliza Bonaparte's husband's station-in-life (from above linked article)--
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At the parade, he was her aide-de-camp and lowered his sword as she passed; at official ceremonies of the palace, he was her Chamberlain, and stood behind her or marched after her; in social life, he was the very last and least of her associates; on the coins, his profile was three quarters absorbed and lost in hers. She seemed to make it a point to render him ridiculous in the eyes of Europe, and absurd in the sight of history.
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It sounds like her husband was
ejected from any real role in her politics and governing of the gifts of societies given her by her brother Napoleon. This must have
engulfed him in shame, humiliation, and depression.