French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)
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A Bonaparte who bankrolled psychoanalysis. Marie's casino fortune — her grandfather built Monte Carlo — kept Freud's circle afloat and later bought his life, funding his 1938 escape from Vienna.
Born 2 July 1882, Marie was the only child of Roland Bonaparte and Marie-Félix Blanc, who died shortly after childbirth. Through her father she descended from Lucien, Napoleon's rebellious younger brother — a secondary branch, no claim to the imperial throne. Through her mother she inherited the real money: François Blanc had developed Monte Carlo, and the casino wealth came to her. She married into Greek royalty, becoming Princess George of Greece and Denmark, but her enduring tie was to Sigmund Freud. She became a psychoanalyst herself, poured funds into the movement, and in 1938 used her re…
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper—menstruation, defloration, pregnancy, and parturition—woman is biologically doomed to suffer.
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