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Louis De Talleyrand-Périgord
Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, 3rd duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (12 March 1811 – 21 March 1898) was a French aristocrat, soldier and politician. Early life He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, 2nd Duke of Dino and, later, the 2nd Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord (1787–1872), and of Princess Dorothea of Courland, Duchess of Sagan (1793–1862). His siblings were Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord (who died young); Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord (who married Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde); and Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord (who married Henri de Castellane). His paternal grandparents were Archambaud de Talleyrand-Périgord and Madeleine Olivier de Senozan de Viriville. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem, though her mother's husband, Peter von Biron, 11th and last Duke of Courland, acknowledged her as his own. Career In 1829, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Courland
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was a duchy in the Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominal vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently made part of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom from 1569 to 1726 and incorporated into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1726. On October 24, 1795, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in the Third Partition of Poland. There was also a short-lived wartime state with the same name that existed from March 8 to September 22, 1918. Plans for it to become part of the United Baltic Duchy, subject to the German Empire, were thwarted by Germany's surrender of the Baltic region at the end of the First World War. The area became a part of Latvia at the end of World War I. History In 1561, during the Livonian Wars, the Livonian Confederation was dismantled and the Livonian Order was disbanded. On the basis of the Treaty of Vilnius, the southern part of Estonia and the northern part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florentin Seillière
Florentin Seillière (3 July 1744 – 4 February 1825) was a French businessman and banker. He and his brother made their fortune in the wool trade, and in supplying fabric to the army in the period before, during and after the French Revolution. They used their capital to support the Lorraine iron industry. Seillière was made a baron by Napoleon, and this was confirmed and made hereditary after the Bourbon Restoration. He left a large fortune when he died. Family Florentin Seillière was born on 3 July 1744 in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse. He was the son of François Seillière (1707–1749) and Marie-Anne Sellier. His father, who was descended from officials at the court of Lorraine, had become a wool merchant in Saint-Mihiel. The Seillières were a prominent Catholic family. The family name had been Sellier (Saddler), then Seillier, and finally Seillière. In 1769 Florentin married Jeanne Chevalier (1750–1802). Their children were Nicolas (1770–1844), Germain Auguste (1775–1803) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Louis Raoul Victor De Montmorency
Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency (14 December 1790 – 18 August 1862), 6th Duke of Montmorency, was a French aristocrat. Early life Montmorency was born on 14 December 1790. He was the son of Anne Charles François de Montmorency, 5th Duke of Montmorency (1768–1846), and Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, Countess de Gacé (1774–1846). His sisters were Anne Élisabeth Laurence de Montmorency (wife of Théodore, Prince of Bauffremont, son of Alexandre de Bauffremont) and Anne Louise Charlotte Alix de Montmorency (wife of Napoléon Louis, 3rd Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord, ''de jure'' 3rd Duke of Dino). His paternal grandparents were Anne Léon, Duke of Montmorency and Charlotte-Françoise de Montmorency-Luxembourg, ''suo jure'' 4th Duchess of Montmorency (daughter of Anne-François de Montmorency-Luxembourg, 3rd Duke of Montmorency). His maternal grandparents were Louis Charles Auguste Goyon de Matignon, Count de Gacé, and Angélique-Marie Élisabeth Émil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Montmorency
Duke of Montmorency was a title of French nobility that was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris. History The first creation was in 1551 for Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France. This title was forfeited by the 4th Duke of Montmorency, who was executed for treason in 1632. The dukedom was recreated in 1633 for his sister Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency and her husband, the Prince of Condé. This title was renamed as Duke of Enghien in 1689. At that point, the Montmorency name was transferred to the dukedom of Beaufort (second creation), which had been conferred in 1688 on Charles François Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Prince de Tingry. This new dukedom of Montmorency was authorised to pass through the female line to the branch of Montmorency-Fosseux in 1767, but the line became extinct in 1862. However, Emperor Napoleon III extended the title of Duke of Montmorency in 1864 to Nicolas Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Charles François De Montmorency
Anne Charles François de Montmorency, 5th Duke of Montmorency (13 July 1768 – 25 May 1846) was a French soldier and politician. Early life Montmorency was born at the Hôtel de Montmorency at 10 rue Saint-Marc in Paris on 13 July 1768. He was the eldest son of Anne Léon, Duke of Montmorency (1731–1799) and Charlotte-Françoise de Montmorency-Luxembourg, ''suo jure'' 4th Duchess of Montmorency (1745–1763). Montmorency had three brothers and two sisters: Christian (Marquis of Seignelay who was known as the Prince of Montmorency-Tancarville), Élisabeth (wife of Alexandre Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot), Thibaut, Pulchérie (wife of Victor Louis Victurnien de Rochechouar, Marquis de Mortemart), and Louis. His maternal grandparents were Anne-François de Montmorency-Luxembourg, 3rd Duke of Montmorency (son of Charles II François Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg). Career He joined the French Army in 1785 of the Colonel-Général Dragoon Régiment. During the French R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothée De Talleyrand Périgord, By Philip Alexius De László
Frédérique Hoschedé (born 14 July 1953), better known by the stage name Dorothée, is a French singer and television presenter. She was a continuity announcer on French public broadcaster Antenne 2 from 1977 to 1983, but she is best known for having presented children's television shows like ''Les mercredis de la jeunesse'' (1973), ''Dorothée et ses amis'' (1977–1978), ''Récré A2'' (1978–1987), and especially ''Club Dorothée'' (1987–1997), which totalled up to about thirty hours of broadcast per week and popularized Japanese anime in France (with titles like ''Dragon Ball'', ''Saint Seiya'', ''City Hunter'', or '' Hokuto no Ken'' sparking controversy and complaints from the CSA as well as some political figures, for their violent content). Dorothée is a singer with a large discography (one album per year on average between 1980 and 1996), singing pop music for children, and she has recorded well-known French traditional nursery rhymes in a record collection calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Black Eagle
The Order of the Black Eagle () was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia. The order was founded on 17 January 1701 by Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg (who became Friedrich I of Prussia, Friedrich I, King in Prussia, the following day). In his Dutch exile after World War I, deposed Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, Wilhelm II continued to award the order to his family. He made his second wife, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, a Lady in the Order of the Black Eagle. Overview The statutes of the order were published on 18 January 1701, and revised in 1847. Membership in the Order of the Black Eagle was limited to a small number of knights, and was divided into two classes: members of reigning houses (further divided into members of the House of Hohenzollern and members of other houses, both German and foreign) and capitular knights. Before 1847, membership was limited to nobles, but after that date, capitular knights who were not noble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exposition Universelle (1867)
The of 1867 (), better known in English as the 1867 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, Second French Empire, France, from 1 April to 3 November 1867. It was the List of world expositions, second of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. A number of nations were represented at the fair. Following a decree of Napoleon III of France, Emperor Napoleon III, the exposition was prepared as early as 1864, in the midst of Haussmann's renovation of Paris, the renovation of Paris, marking the culmination of the Second French Empire. Visitors included Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a brother of the William I, German Emperor, King William and Otto von Bismarck of Prussia, Prince Metternich and Franz Josef of Austria, Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, and the Khedive of Egypt Isma'il Pasha, Isma'il. Conception In 1864, Napoleon III of France, Napoleon III issued a decree stating that an international exposition should be held in Paris in 1867. A Government a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five classes, it was originally established in 1802 by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, and it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its Seat (legal entity), seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Since 1 February 2023, the Order's grand chancellor has been retired General François Lecointre, who succeeded fellow retired General Benoît Puga in office. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander (order), Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Golden Fleece
The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (, ) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Brugge by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, Isabella of Portugal. Today, two branches of the order exist, namely the Spanish Fleece and the Austrian Fleece; the current grand masters are Felipe VI, King Felipe VI of Spain and Karl von Habsburg, head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, respectively. The Grand Chaplain of the Austrian branch is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna. The separation of the two existing branches took place as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession of 1701–1714. The grand master of the order, Charles II of Spain (a House of Habsburg , Habsburg), had died childless in 1700, and so the right to succeed to the throne of Spain (and thus to become the Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece) initiated a global conflict. On one hand, Charles VI, Holy Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Revolution Of 1848
The French Revolution of 1848 (), also known as the February Revolution (), was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked the wave of revolutions of 1848. The revolution took place in Paris, and was preceded by the French government's crackdown on the campagne des banquets. Starting on 22 February as a large-scale protest against the government of François Guizot, it later developed into a violent uprising against the monarchy. After intense urban fighting, large crowds managed to take control of the capital, leading to the abdication of King Louis Philippe on 24 February and the subsequent proclamation of the Second Republic. Background Under the Charter of 1814, Louis XVIII ruled France as the head of a constitutional monarchy. Upon Louis XVIII's death, his brother, the Count of Artois, ascended to the throne in 1824, as Charles X. Supported by the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
