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Jeanne Charlotte Du Luçay
Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay née ''Papillon d'Auteroche'' (; 1769-1842), was a French court official, '' Dame du Palais'' to Empress Joséphine and ''Dame d'atour'' to Empress Marie Louise of France. Life Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay was married to count Jean-Baptiste-Charles Legendre de Luçay (1754-1836), prefect at the Imperial court. Dame de Palais She belonged to those appointed ladies-in-waiting when the first Imperial Household was composed for empress Joséphine after the introduction of the monarchy in 1804: Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld was created ''Dame d'honneur'' and Émilie de Beauharnais ''Dame d'atours'', while Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay, along with Madame de Rémusat Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as '' dame du palais'' in 1802. Life Talleyrand ..., Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Madame Lauris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jérôme Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon, Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I (formally Hieronymus Napoleon in German), Kingdom of Westphalia, King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1813. From 1816 onward, he bore the title of Prince of Montfort. After 1848, when his nephew, Napoleon III, Louis Napoleon, became President of the French Republic, President of the Second French Republic, he served in several official roles, including Marshal of France from 1850 onward, and List of Presidents of the Senate of France#Presidents of the Senate.2C 1852.E2.80.931940, President of the Senate in 1852. He was the only one of Napoleon's siblings who lived long enough to see the Second French Empire, Bonaparte restoration. Historian Owen Connelly points to his financial, military, and administrative successes and concludes he was a loyal, useful, and soldierly asset to Napoleon. Others, including historian He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ladies-in-waiting
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 Deaths
Events January–March * January 6–January 13, 13 – First Anglo-Afghan War – Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): British East India Company troops are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Wazir Akbar Khan, Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammad Khan (Emir of Afghanistan), Dost Mohammad Khan. * January 8 – Delft University of Technology is established by William II of the Netherlands, as a 'Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers'. * January 23 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross, charting the eastern side of James Ross Island, reaches a Farthest South of 78°09'30"S. * January ** Michael Alexander (bishop), Michael Alexander takes office, as the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem. ** United States, American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College becomes the first person to administer an inhaled anesthetic, to facilitate a surgical procedure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1769 Births
Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age'' (BRILL, 2012) pp315-316 * February 17 – The British House of Commons votes not to allow MP John Wilkes to take his seat after he wins a by-election, on the grounds that he was an outlaw when standing. * March 4 – Mozart departs Italy, after the last of his three tours there. * March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships '' La Boudeuse'' and '' Étoile'', with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe. She returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships. April–June * April 13 – Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Graux
Lucien Désiré Prosper Graux known as Lucien Graux (1878-1944) was a French doctor, entrepreneur, art collector, bibliophile, writer, publisher and resistance fighter. He launched the Arys perfume house (1916-1950). Early life Lucien Désiré Prosper Graux was born on 4 April 1878 in Paris, son of the doctor Gaston Graux (1848-1925), president of the water company of Contrexéville and an art collector. As a medical student he joined the Freemasons on 12 April 1899, and in 1905, he defended his thesis, entitled ''Application of cryoscopy to the study of mineral waters.'' Scientific career Graux specialized in public hygiene, urology, and pharmacology applied to care. He served as editor of ''La Gazette Médicale de Paris'' (1906-1914). In December 1907, he filed a patent for a drug combating uric acid, called Urodonal, which he promoted through the Etablissements Chatelain (Paris), distributor of pharmaceutical products such as Globéol and Jubol. In 1915, Graux joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hundred Days
The Hundred Days ( ), also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition (), marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days). This period saw the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo campaign and the Neapolitan War as well as several other minor campaigns. The phrase ''les Cent Jours'' (the Hundred Days) was first used by the prefect of Paris, Gaspard, comte de Chabrol, in his speech welcoming the king back to Paris on 8 July. Napoleon returned while the Congress of Vienna was sitting. On 13 March, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and on 25 March, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the United Kingdom, the four Great Powers and key members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule. This s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess Of Montebello
Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello (February 26, 1782 in Paris – July 3, 1856 in Paris) was a French courtier, ''dame d'honneur'' (Mistress of the Robes) to Empress Marie Louise of France, and the second wife of Jean Lannes, one of the best military commanders in history and Napoléon's ablest Marshal, who was nicknamed the ''Achilles of the Grand Armée''. She was the daughter of senator and financier François Scholastique, Count of Guéhéneuc. She was the sister of general Charles Louis Joseph Olivier, Count of Guéhéneuc. Life On September 16, 1800, at the age of 18, she married general Jean Lannes (1769–1809) at Dornes, becoming his second spouse. According to Madame Junot, Madame Lannes's fine features resembled Raphael's or Corregio's most exquisite Madonnas. Louise had a very happy married life with Lannes even though it was an arranged-marriage. The couple had five children in quick succession: four sons (Napoléon, Alfred, Ernest and Gustave) bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Charlotte Papillon D'Auteroche (1769-1845), Comtesse De Luçay
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Catharina Of Württemberg
Princess Katharina of Württemberg (full name: Friederike Katharina Sophie Dorothea; 21 February 1783 – 29 November 1835) was Queen of Westphalia by marriage to Jérôme Bonaparte, who reigned as King of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813. Life Katharina was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, to the later King Frederick I of Württemberg and his first wife, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Her mother, who died when Katharina was five years old, was a sister of Caroline of Brunswick and a niece of King George III of the United Kingdom. After the death of Katharina's mother, her father married Charlotte, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of George III and thus a first cousin of his first wife. In 1803, Württemberg entered into an alliance with France under Emperor Napoleon I, and one of the terms of the treaty was the marriage of Katharina with Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon's younger brother. The wedding was held four years later, on 22 August 1807, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame De Rémusat
Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rémusat (5 January 1780 – 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as '' dame du palais'' in 1802. Life Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual capacity and personal grace. After her death, her ''Essai sur l'éducation des femmes'', was published and received academic approval, but it was not until her grandson, Paul de Rémusat, published her ''Mémoires'' (3 vols., Paris, 1879–80), which followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 1881), that justice could be done to her literary talent. Claire's memoirs threw light not only on the Napoleonic court, but also on the youth and education of her son Charles de Rémusat Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
