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By Célia Bertin. Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1982. MARIE BONAPARTE. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, vii + 286 pp., $17.95.
She would have loved it. To have the publication of her biography arouse passions, spread gossip, and lead to controversy. She had a cult for her great-granduncle. Valets at her lavish receptions always wore a gold N emblazoned on their sleeves, and the imperial bee-her favorite emblem—was found all over her house. She is of course Marie Bonaparte, the beautiful grande dame of French psychoanalysis whose