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Napoléon Alexandre Berthier, 2nd Prince Of Wagram
Napoléon Alexandre Louis Joseph Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram (11 September 1810, Paris10 February 1887, Paris) was a French politician and nobleman. He was the son of Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram, and Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria (and by his mother, grandnephew of King Maximilian I of Bavaria). Marriage and family On 29 June 1831, he married Zénaïde Françoise Clary (25 November 1812, Paris – 27 April 1884, Paris). She was the daughter of Nicolas Joseph Clary and Malcy Anne Jeanne Rougier. She was also the niece of Désirée Clary, former fiancée to Napoleon Bonaparte and the wife of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte - King Charles XIV of Sweden. They had three children: * Malcy Louise Caroline Frédérique Berthier, Princess of Wagram (1832-1884), who married Joachim, 4th Prince Murat Joachim Joseph Napoléon Murat, 4th Prince Murat (21 July 1834 – 23 October 1901) was a major-general in the French Army and a member of the Bonaparte-Mura ...
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithography, lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portrait painting, portraiture. Among his best known works are ''Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting'' (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Early years Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's Black Forest in the Electorate of Baden, on 20 April 1805.Ormond & Blackett-Ord, ''Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe'', p. 18. He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773–1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765–1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family. His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influen ...
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Jean-Baptiste Berthier
Jean-Baptiste Berthier (1721–1804) was an officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) in the French Corps of Topographical Engineers during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Biography Early life Jean-Baptiste Berthier was born on 6 January 1721 in Tonnerre, France. Career After attracting the attention of ''marchal de camp'' Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, he was deputed by him to supervise construction of several prominent Paris public buildings, notably those of the ministries of war, navy and foreign affairs in Versailles. In 1758, he was made Director of Military Survey to King Louis XV, a position he retained with Louis XVI for whom he prepared the famous topographic maps of the Royal hunting grounds. Personal life He married his first wife, Marie Françoise L'Huillier de La Serre, in 1746. They had five children. The oldest of five children, Louis Alexandre Berthier (1753), would become Marshal of France, with the other three sons also serving in the French Army ...
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French Senators Of The Second Empire
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Members Of The Chamber Of Peers Of The July Monarchy
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Politicians From Paris
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1887 Deaths
Events January * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda (ship), Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Ethiopia, Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. February * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – T ...
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1810 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales. * January 4 – Australian Seal hunting, seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, New Zealand, Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic. * January 12 – The marriage of Napoleon and Joséphine de Beauharnais, Joséphine is annulled. * February 13 – After seizing Jaén, Spain, Jaén, Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba, Seville and Granada, Napoleonic troops enter Málaga under the command of General Horace Sebastiani. * February 17 – Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte decrees that Rome would become the second capital of the First French Empire, French Empire. * February 20 – County of Tyrol, Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer is executed. * March 11 – Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria by proxy in Vienna. April–June * April 2 – Napoleon Bonaparte marries Marie Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma, in person, in Paris. * April 19 â ...
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Countess Palatine Maria Franziska Of Sulzbach
Countess Palatine Maria Francisca of Sulzbach (''Maria Franziska, Pfalzgräfin von Sulzbach''; 15 June 1724 – 15 November 1794), was a Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld by marriage to Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Born in Schwetzingen, she was the fifth child of Joseph Karl, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and Countess Palatine Elizabeth Auguste Sophie of Neuburg. Of her six siblings, only she and two older sisters survived to adulthood: Elisabeth Auguste and Maria Anna. Life Her father was the designated successor both of his own father Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and of his father-in-law Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, but he never took possession of his inheritance due to his early death in 1729. Maria Franziska's older sister Elisabeth Auguste later married the next heir of the Palatinate Electorate, Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. After the death of Charles Theodore in February 1799 without surviv ...
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Frederick Michael, Count Palatine Of Zweibrücken
Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld ( Ribeauvillé, Alsace, 27 February 1724 – 15 August 1767 in Schwetzingen) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. He was the son of Christian III of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken and a member of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach. He was the father of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph. Furthermore, he engaged Nicolas de Pigage to reconstruct his summer palace in Oggersheim. Seven Years' War Frederick Michael was Palatine Fieldmarshal, Governor of Mannheim and finally in 1758 as Fieldmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire commander-in-chief of the Reichsarmee in the Seven Years' War against Frederick the Great. After the Battle of Rossbach, he managed to build up the whipped imperial army again, for which he received the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa. In the fall of 1758 he invaded Saxony, took the fortress S ...
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John, Count Palatine Of Gelnhausen
John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (24 May 1698 in Gelnhausen – 10 February 1780 in Mannheim) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld at Gelnhausen. Life John was the younger son of the Duke and Count Palatine John Charles of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen (1638-1704) from his second marriage with Esther Maria (1665–1725), a daughter of Baron George Frederick of Witzleben-Elgersburg. He was a Feldzeugmeister in the army of the Electoral Palatinate and commander of all troops and knights of the Palatinate Order of St. Hubert. John was also a governor of Palatine Duchy of Jülich and commander of the fortress of Jülich. He mainly lived in Mannheim. After the death of his brother Frederick Bernard in 1739, he succeeded as Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen. Marriage and issue Johann married Sophie Charlotte (1719–1770), daughter of the Wild- and Rhinegrave Charles of Salm-Dhaun, in 1743 in Dhaun. Sophie Charlotte was the granddaughter of two of Johan ...
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Countess Palatine Maria Anna Of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (18 July 1753 – 4 February 1824) was Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen and Duchess in Bavaria, through her marriage to Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria. Maria Anna was a great-grandmother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria through her son Duke Pius August in Bavaria. Family Maria Anna was born in Schwetzingen, as the second daughter of Count Palatine Frederick Michael of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler and his wife, Countess Palatine Maria Francisca of Palatinate-Sulzbach. She was the sister of Maximilian Joseph, later King of Bavaria and Amalie, the last Electress and first Queen of Saxony. Marriage and issue Maria Anna married Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, a son of John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen and his wife Sophie Charlotte of Salm-Dhaun, on 30 January 1780 in Mannheim. Wilhelm and Maria Anna had two children: *unnamed son (6 May 1782) * Duchess Maria Elisabeth Amalie Franziska in Bav ...
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Duke Wilhelm In Bavaria
Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria (full German name: ''Wilhelm, Herzog in Bayern''; 10 November 1752 – 8 January 1837) was a German prince of the House of Wittelsbach. Born into a non-ruling cadet branch of the widely branched House of Wittelsbach, Wilhelm was Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen between 1789 and 1799 and first Duke in Bavaria from 16 February 1799 until his death in 1837. He never ruled over his own principality, but from 17 December 1803 to 20 March 1806 he was titled Duke of Berg. Early life Wilhelm was born on 10 November 1752 in Gelnhausen in the Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen. He was the second son and the fourth of eight children born to John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen and his wife Wild- and Rhinegravine Sophie Charlotte of Salm-Dhaun. Wilhelm converted to Catholicism on 15 August 1769. In 1778, he became an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Marriage and issue Wilhelm married Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweib ...
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