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  Wikinfo | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Marie Louise (December 12, 1791 - December 17, 1847) was the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress of France.
She was born Marie Louise Leopoldine Franziska Theresia Josepha Lucia, Princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, in Vienna, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his second wife, Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies.
Marie Louise, former empress of France, died on December 17, 1847 in Parma, Italy.
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 Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria
Marie Louise was the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress of France.
She was born December 12, 1791 in Vienna, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his second wife, Maria Theresa of the Two Sicilies.
After Napoleon's abdication Marie Louise and her son fled Paris to Blois then to Vienna where she remained until granted the Duchy of Parma by her family.
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 Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 17, 1847) was an Austrian archduchess, the second wife of Napoléon Bonaparte and Empress of the French, and later sovereign Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla.
Archduchess Marie Louise was born in Vienna, the daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and of his second wife, Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies.
Marie Louise acted as Regent from April to December 1812 during the Russian campaign and again from April 1813 to January 1815 during her husband's absence in the German campaign.
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 Austria
Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, etc (1791—1847) =1 1810; Napoleon I, French Emperor (1769-1821) =2 1821; Graf Adam Adalbert von Neipperg (1775-1829) =3 1834; Comte Charles de Bombelles (1785-1856) see Montenuovo 3.
Archduchess Maie Caroline of Austria, etc (8.4.1801 Wien — 22.5.1832 Dresden) = 26.9.1819 Wien (proxy) & 7.10.1819 Dresden (personally); Friedrich Christian II, King of Saxony (18.5.1797 Dresden — 9.8.1854 Brennbuchel) son of Duke Maximilian of Saxony & Princess Carolina of Bourbon-Parma; suc uncle, Anton, as King 7.6.1836; =2nd Princess Marie of Bavaria no issue 10.
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, etc (7.12.1802 Wien — 8.3.1878 Wien) renounced succesion rights in favor of son = 4.11.1824 Wien; Princess Sophie of Bavaria (27.1.1805 München — 28.5.1872 Wien) dau of Maximilian I, King of Bavaria & Princess Caroline of Baden a.
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 Austrian Royal Family
Marie Louise was Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastallagiven from 1815 until her death having been given these as financial support as her husband Napoléon I was exiled in St Helena.
Joachim Karl-Maria Nikolaus of Austria (and Prince of Belgium)
Laetitia Maria Nora of Austria (and Prince of Belgium)
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 SparkNotes: Napoleonic Europe (1799-1815): Napoleon's Vast Empire (1809-1811)
In 1811, the new empress gave birth to a son, Napoleon II, known as the "King of Rome".
Marie Louise, Napoleon's new empress, was 18 when they married, and quickly produced the desired heir.
Oddly, Napoleon's marriage to Marie Louise, a Hapsburg, made him the nephew-in-law of Louis XVI, the king executed during the French Revolution.
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 PBS - Napoleon: Napoleon and Josephine
In a bold move Napoleon sent an emissary to the Austrian Embassy to demand Marie Louise’s hand, and further demanding that the contract be signed immediately, without consultation with the Austrian court.
She wrote in her diary "[Just] to see the man would be the worst form of torture." France had not been kind to her great-aunt Marie Antoinette, and Napoleon was far older, and an enemy of Austria.
They were married by proxy in a civil ceremony on March 11, 1810, and Marie Louise began her journey to France.
www.pbs.org /empires/napoleon/n_josephine/newlife/page_1.html   (495 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
Married thirdly in 1808 in Vienna Archduchess Maria Lodovica of Modena (*1787 Monza,†1816 Verona).
Married in 1789 in Turin Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (*1773 Milan,†1832 Genoa).
Married in 1736 in Vienna Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (*1717 Vienna,†1780 Vienna).
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 Wikinfo | Napoleon II of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Three years after his birth in Paris, the First French Empire to which he was heir collapsed, and he was taken by the empress to Chateau Blois in April of 1814.
In 1815, after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated in favor of his son, who never actually ruled, but was ultimately awarded the title of Duke of Reichstadt as consolation in 1818.
After 1815, Napoleon II was a virtual prisoner in Austria, where he died of tuberculosis at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on July 22, 1832.
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 Queen Hortense eBook
They were to attend the festivities that were soon to take place at the imperial court in honor of the marriage of the emperor with the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
Napoleon wished, moreover, to retain near his young wife, in order that she might have at her side a gentle and tender mentor, the queen who had inherited Josephine’s grace and loveliness, and who, in her noble womanhood, would set a good example to the ladies of his court.
Hortense mutely obeyed the emperor’s command; on the 1st of April, 1810, the day of the union of Marie Louise with the emperor, she, together with his sisters, bore the train of the new empress.
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 Amazon.com: Conquest (1937): Video: Greta Garbo,Charles Boyer,Reginald Owen,Alan Marshal,Henry Stephenson,Leif ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Certainly Garbo's Polish Noblewoman Marie Walewska might lack some of the impact of her earlier performance as the courtesan in "Camille", but it is still a beautifully wrought performance and her chemistry with Boyer is very evident in their scenes together.
Marie gives herself to the Emperor however it costs her her marriage to Count Walewska who now considers her a soiled woman and he seeks an annulment of their marriage in Rome.
Marie menawhile begins to fully fall in love with the Emperor and when he obtains a divorce from the Empress Joesphine she has hopes of truly becoming his legal wife.
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 Marie-louise Motesiczky ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France c.
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Study of a Woman undated Red chalk Sheet:
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucqoi 1793 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
Married in 1615 at Bordeaux Princess Anna of Spain and Austria (*1601 Valladolid,†1666 Paris).
Married in 1770 at Versailles Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria (*1755 Vienna,†1793 Paris).
Married secondly in 1810 in St Cloud Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria (*1791 Vienna,†1847 Vienna).
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 Marie Louisa - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Marie Louise (full name: Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Therese Josepha...
Marie Louise acted as Regent from April to December 1812 during the Russian...
Marie Louisa - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Marie Louisa Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 NationMaster - Statistics on Austria. 3511 facts and figures, stats and information on Austrian economy, crime, people, ...
Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's status remained unclear for a decade.
Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995, some Austrians have called into question this neutrality.
A prosperous, democratic country, Austria entered the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999.
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 Worldroots.com
(dghtr of Archduke Joseph (Habsburg-Lorraine) of Austria + Dss Maria Dorothea of Wuerttemberg)
Pedigree Table of Karl I, Emperor of Austria
Marie Theresia of Modena d'Este (now Queen of Bavaria) with her 2 dghtrsPrincesses Helmtrud and Wiltrud
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 St. Louis de Montfort Academy
They must have had every precious metal and mineral known to man displayed there.
Combining “natural” history and human history, the boys admired the dazzling diamond earrings that once belonged to Queen Marie Antoinette of France.
They also saw such famous historic jewelry as the “Hope Diamond” and the diadem of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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 Napoleonic Personalities : Marie-Louise of Austria
Her father was Francis I of Austria and her great aunt, Marie-Antoinette, had been executed during the Revolution.
The marriage, which started off as a political necessity binding her father's Austria and France more closely, appeared to be a contented one for both Bonaparte and his young bride.
They had a son, Francois, the King of Rome, who, after Bonaparte's first abdication, went to Vienna to live with his mother.
www.napoleonguide.com /marielou.htm   (113 words)

  
 wjz.com - Today In History - March 11, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1810, Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
In 1861, the Confederate convention in Montgomery, Alabama, adopted a constitution.
In 1986, the state of Georgia pardoned Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who had been lynched in 1915 for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan.
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 Napoleon I of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, with Austria and Russia preparing an invasion of France and its allies, he had to change his plans and turn his attention to the continent.
A few weeks later, Napoleon defeated Austria and Russia at Austerlitz (a decisive victory he would be the most proud of in his military career) on 2 December -the first anniversary of his coronation- forcing Austria yet again to sue for peace.
Following this a new peace was signed between Austria and France and in the following year the Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise married Napoleon, following his divorce of Josephine.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France   (7818 words)

  
 Napoleon Bonaparte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After his rise in power Napoleon divorced his first wife Josephine in 1809, because she had not given him an heir, and remarried Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria who was able to give him a son.
Napleon was made commander of the Italian army and won four consecutive victories against the Austrian.
Taking the fight to Egypt he won the battle of the pyramids, but lost his fleet in the battle of the Nile.
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 Marie-Louise (of Austria) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Marie-Louise (of Austria) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Marie-Louise (of Austria) (1791-1847), Hapsburg archduchess, eldest daughter of the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, who married Napoleon I,...
In 1748, at the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle assigned the duchies of Parma and Piacenza to Philip,...
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 A Sour Taste in Marie-Louise's Mouth: Champagne Jacquesson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jacquesson was founded in 1798 by Memmie Jacquesson, an instant success it seems as Napoleon himself would partake in a flute or two and as already mentioned, their sparkling champagne was poured at his nuptials to Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria (pictured right).
Anyway, I hope that my relationship is more successful than Napoleon's and the Archduchess Marie-Louise's, a story that is begging to be turned into a period-drama.
Despite remaining together, she was haunted by the fact that the emporer virtually raped his 19-year old bride-to-be in the carriage on their first meeting, as it hurtled through the rain.
www.wine-journal.com /champagne_jacquesson.html   (1426 words)

  
 WEB\NEWMEDIA\DOCS\yesterday\eras\1809-30
Napoleon marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria; by Decree of Rambouillet orders sale of seized U.S. ships; and annexes Holland, Hanover, Hamburg, Lauenburg, and Lubeck.
Illinois becomes a state of the U.S. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published Frankenstein.
Alabama becomes a state of the U.S. David Napier constructs the flat-bed cylinder press for printing.
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 PAPERMAG BLOGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This shot is pretty small to see but it's of Marie Antoinette as a child (third from the left) in a painting by her much older sister Archduchess Marie Christine who was the mother, Empress Maria Theresa's favorite.
She and MA were very close as children and they kept in touch by letter all their lives.
MC's granddaughter Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria ended up marrying Napolean.
blogs.papermag.com /2005/11/15/more-marie-antoinette   (358 words)

  
 Our Champagnes
The business flourished immediately because of the quality of the wines from this new House.
In particular, their champagne became a favourite of Napoleon who took it on his numerous campaigns as well as serving it at his wedding to the Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria.
Elegance with complexity is the hallmark of the House.
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 Timeline PeterJr
At the height of his power, Napoleon marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria in hopes of an heir to his empire.
Daniel Boone, explorer, pioneer, and scourge of Native Americans, dies at 85.
French physicist Andre Marie Ampere discovers the basic workings of electric currents.
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 Conquest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After a brief informal meeting two months earlier when they were impressed with each other, Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo) formally meets Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) at a ball in Warsaw.
When Napoleon notes her husband (Henry Stephenson) is three times her age, and as he is taken with her charms, he unsuccessfully tries to seduce her.
Clarence Brown and Gustav Marchatý direct this MGM release that also features Reginald Owen, Leif Erickson, Dame May Whitty and Maria Ouspenskaya.
theoscarsite.com /pictures1937/conquest.htm   (227 words)

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