Adèle Cutts Douglas (American National Biography)

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Robert W. Johannsen, "Douglas, Adèle Cutts," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01275.html.
In November 1856, following Buchanan's election as president, Adèle and Douglas's marriage was solemnized by a Roman Catholic priest in what was widely reported as the social event of the season in the national capital. Their wedding trip to New York (to visit Douglas's mother) and Chicago was marked by public suppers and receptions, at which every detail of Adèle's dress and appearance was recorded in the press. "It is difficult to say," wrote one observer, "whether the genius of the husband or the beauty of the wife attracts the most homage" (Harper's Weekly, 26 Dec. 1857).
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Erastus Beadle publishes his "Dime Book of Practical Etiquette"

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On this day, Prince Napoleon, the cousin of French Emperor Napoleon III of France, married Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel II of Peidmont-Sardinia, in Turin. Commentary at the time centered on how this union further signaled the growing alliance between France and anti-Austrian Italian sentiment for a united Italy. The couple produced three children but separated in 1870. (By John Osborne)
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Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation agreed between the United States and Paraguay

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U.S. Commissioner James Bowlin arrives in Paraguay to negotiate a commerce and navigation treaty

The United States Commissioner James B. Bowlin presented his credentials to Paraguayan president Carlos Antonio Lopez in Asuncion. The next day he began negotiations on a friendship, commerce, and navigation treaty with the land-locked republic. These resulted with the signing of the treaty in the capital on February 4, ratification by Paraguay a week later, and the eventual United States ratification in the Senate on February 27, 1860. (By John Osborne)
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