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Collection Princess Marie Bonaparte Papers

Princess Marie Bonaparte Timeline

A chronology of key events in the life of Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962), psychoanalyst and author.

Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962)

  1. 1882, July 2

    Born, Saint-Cloud, France

  2. 1907

    Married Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)

    Photograph of man and woman posed outside
    Prince Geo. of Greece and wife, circa 1910-1915. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. LC-DIG-ggbain-18996

  3. 1924

    Read Introduction à la psychanalyse (Paris: 1922), Simon Jankélévitch’s translation of Sigmund Freud’s introductory lectures on psychoanalysis

    Published under the pseudonym A. E. Narjani “Considérations sur les causes anatomiques de la frigidité chez la femme,” Bruxelles médical (Apr. 27)

    Posed portrait of woman seated with book
    Princess Marie (Bonaparte) of Greece, undated. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. LC-DIG-ggbain-06114

  4. 1925

    Began analysis with Sigmund Freud

  5. 1926-1927

    Founder, Société psychanalytique de Paris and Revue française de psychanalyse

  6. 1928

    Began treating analysands

  7. 1929

    Provided financial assistance to the nearly bankrupt Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Sigmund Freud’s publishing house

  8. 1933

    Published Edgar Poe. Paris: Denoël et Steele

  9. 1934

    Founded Institute de psychanalyse, Paris, France; served as its first director

  10. 1937

    Purchased from Reinhold Stahl Sigmund Freud’s letters to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904

    Published Topsy, chow-chow au poil d’or. Paris: Denoël et Steele

  11. 1938

    Facilitated the immigration of Sigmund Freud and his family to London, England

    Photograph of a group walking through a train station
    [Dr. Sigmund Freud, with Marie Bonaparte and U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt, arriving in Paris enroute to England], 1938. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. LC-USZ62-119877

  12. 1939-1951

    Published Cinq cahiers écrits par une petite fille entre sept ans et demi et dix ans et leurs commentaires. 4 vols. Paris: Printed for the author

  13. 1941-1944

    Spent war years in Cape Town, South Africa

  14. 1951

    Published De la sexualité de la femme. Paris: Presses universitaires de France

  15. 1952

    Elected vice president, International Psycho-Analytical Association

  16. 1952-1958

    Published A la mémoire des disparus. 2 vols. London: Imago Publishing Co.

  17. 1962, Sept. 21

    Died, Saint-Tropez, France