Mathilde Bonaparte - in Culture

In Culture

  • Joanna Richardson published a biography of her: Princess Mathilde (London & New York, 1969).
  • An aged Princess Mathilde makes a brief appearance in Proust's À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (In the Shadow of Young Girls In Flower), the second volume of In Search of Lost Time. She mentions that if she wants to visit les Invalides, she doesn't need an invitation: she has her own set of keys.

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