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  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
The Treaty of Paris of April 30, 1814 allowed her to retain her imperial rank and style (Her Imperial Majesty The Empress Marie Louise) and made her the ruler of the duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, with her son as heir.
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 Marie, Countess Walewski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie, Countess Walewski (or Walewska) born Łączyńska (1786 - 1817) polish countess, wife of Count Athenasius Walewski, mistress of Napoleon I Bonaparte and mother of Alexandre Joseph Colonna, Count Walewski.
At the age of eighteen, Marie Lączyńska married Count Athenasius Walewski, her senior by several years, by whom she had a son in 1805.
A rumor had it that the visit was by Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria and the king of Rome.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marie,_Countess_Walewski   (458 words)

  
 First empire - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Daughter of Francis I of Austria, second wife of Napoleon, empress of the French, archduchess of Austria, duchess of Parma, of Plaisance, and of Guastalla.
In 1809 Napoleon invaded Austria and occupied Vienna.
Perhaps Austria had had a second thought, that it was better to become the ally of an enemy that was invincible on the battlefield.
www.histofig.com /history/empire/personnes/autriche_marie-louise_en.html   (689 words)

  
 boys clothing: European royalty Austria
Austria was left with control of the German Confederation but suffered upheaval during the 1848 revolutions and eventual defeat in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War.
Prussia's defat of Austria led to the formation of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary in 1867 under Emperor Franz Josef and exclusion from the new German Empire unified by Bismarck.
Austria's embrace of fascism meant that German troops met little opposition to the Anchluss in 1938 and incorporated Austria into the Third Reich.
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 Marie Louise - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
MARIE LOUISE [Marie Louise] 1791-1847, empress of the French (1810-15) as consort of Napoleon I and duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla (1816-47), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (later Emperor of Austria as Francis I.) She was married (1810) to Napoleon I and was the mother of Napoleon II.
Marie Louise Kirkland Dies at 99; Was Nun, Football Prognosticator; Georgetown Visitation Sister Known for Ability to Pick Winners
`Louise was the one I always turned to when I had a problem.
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 Napoleon I of France
Napoleon married Marie-Louise of Austria on February 11, 1810.
A plan by the French, along with the Spanish, to defeat the British Royal Navy failed dramatically at the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805), and Britain gained lasting control of the seas.
While France was engaged in Spain, Austria attacked in Germany, but after initial success suffered defeat at the Battle of Wagram (6 July 1809).
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 Austria - Timeline Index
Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal.
Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty and her consort, the Emperor Francis I, she was married...
Marie Louise, Empress of the French (1810—1815) as consort of Napoleon I and duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla (1816—47), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I...
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 1810 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
July 19 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (born 1776)
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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/flash/n_josephine/newlife/page_1.html   (495 words)

  
 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.
Following Marie Louise's death the Duchy passed to Carlos II (Duke of Lucca) whose grandfather Ferdinand had been Duke of Parma before it was overrun by France in 1796
Laetitia Maria Nora of Austria (and Prince of Belgium)
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 NAPOLEON
Marie Louise of Austria -- his second wife; (her son with Napoleon became Napoleon II).
Austria forced to give up the Netherlands and Lombardy to France and recognize the Rhine as the eastern boundary of France.
After being turned down by the 15 year old sister of the Russian Czar, a marriage was arranged with the 19 year old Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria (daughter of his old enemy, Emperor Francis I of Austria), who detested the idea.
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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.
www.sparknotes.com /history/european/napoleonic/section6.rhtml   (1095 words)

  
 Napoleon Bonaparte from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Austria, led by Archduke Charles, had to negotiate an unfavorable treaty; at the same time, Napoleon organized a coup in 1797 which removed several royalists from power in Paris.
While France was engaged in Spain, Austria attacked in Germany and, after initial success, was defeated at the Battle of Wagram.
He had no children with Josephine (which was why he divorced her) and only one with Marie-Louise: Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte (1812-1833), King of Rome (known as Napoleon II of France although he never ruled).
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 (E)Isenbergs of Germany/Austria
He belongs, however, like his uncle Franz Joseph of Austria Hungary, to a pretty old family whose name is first mentioned in the history of Germany in the 10th Century, when Gerlach von Eisenberg (966-1008) was one of the counts of the German Empire in what is now called the Rhine Province of Prussia.
The Socialists say that Francis Salvator and Archduchess Marie Teresa, widow of old Prince Isenberg, Sr., are jointly responsible, as her Imperial Highness helped to persuade Umlauff to part from his money for the benefit of the bankrupt Prince.
Born in Brunswick, Germany, the daughter of the late Paul Isenberg, a wealthy sugar grower in the Hawaiian Islands, she was married in 1898 in Bremen to Adolph Wendroth.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/GIsenberg/prince.htm   (3642 words)

  
 The Austrian campaign in Russia in 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A leader of conservative monarchy, Austria had most consistently opposed the French revolutionaries who murdered Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France, and sought to overturn the established monarchies of Europe.
This resulted in 1810 with the Marriage of Napoleon to Marie Louise of Austria and the birth of the King of Rome -- heir to the French throne and an Austrian archduke.
In 1812 when Napoleon invaded Russia, a traditional ally of Austria, the Austrians were forced to send a corps to the Grande Armée to support their son in law.
www.antiquesatoz.com /habsburg/1812/campaign.htm   (928 words)

  
 Italy
This was Ferdinand's third marriage, so it did not contribute any heirs to Austria, but their own daughter Eleonore, after marriage to an ephemeral King of Poland, married Duke Charles IV of Lorraine.
The tenure of the d'Este family in Modena continued until the hieress, Mary Beatrice, married Ferdinand of Austria, son of the Emperor Francis I. The geneology of the following Hapsburgs can be examined in the diagram for Tuscany.
In 1814, the Congress of Vienna gave Parma to the widow of Napoleon, Marie Louise of Austria, who, we might think, really had something coming for having endured the marriage to Napoleon: When he asked her to join him on Elba, or return to France during the 100 days, she declined.
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 Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun Online
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun at the National Gallery, London, UK Mademoiselle Brongniart
All images and text on this Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Donald Heald Original Antique Books Prints and Maps
Napoleon is pictured here with his new bride Marie Louise of Austria engaged in a marital dispute over the breakfast table.
He based this action on the spurious grounds that a parish priest had not been present at their marriage, but it was well known that this decision resulted from his desire for a male heir.
The marriage did nothing to end the enmity between France and Austria, but in 1811 Marie gave birth to a son, Francois Charles, who was made king of Rome.
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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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 Napoleonic Personalities : Marie-Louise of Austria
It must have been strange, at first, for Marie-Louise to be in France.
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.
www.napoleonguide.com /marielou.htm   (113 words)

  
 Marie Louise - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Marie Louise - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ouida, pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), English novelist, born in Bury Saint Edmunds; her pseudonym is a childhood version of her...
Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Science
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 20TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
was born in 1791 in Austria - dtr of Emperor Francis II.
She was christened in Austria - aka Marie Louise of Austria.
Marie Louise HAPSBURG-LORRAINE Duchess of Parma and Emperor Napoleon I BONAPART Emperor of France had the following children:
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 NationMaster - Statistics on Austria. 3464 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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 RI-555i 'Confronting Mental Energy - Napoleon Bonaparte/Miscavige'
Jutta, at that time called Marie Louise of Austria, was forced by Emperor Franz I of Austria and his 'Prime Minister' Metternich, to marry this anti-social being called Napoleon Bonaparte, all of them well knowing that Napoleon was anti-social.
She instead 'did what was wanted of her' from the most criminal Metternich, the most anti-social advisor to her father Emperor Franz I. Metternich is now called Richard Reiss, the violently anti-Scientology Senior Case Supervisor of FLAG in Clearwater, Florida.
Jutta, as Marie Louise of Austria, caved herself in, and played the "good", completely irresponsible wife of "Emperor" Napoleon Bonaparte.
www.insolitology.com /topten/koostrenite/ri-555i.htm   (678 words)

  
 Reading Group Guide | Longing by J.D. Landis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As is the case whenever famous people pass through a town, they seem to come and go in an instant, even when their procession has been slow and stately.
Scarcely had their green carriage entered town from the west behind six Limousin horses than it seemed to disappear into the east, so that many people came to doubt by the end of the day and certainly by the end of the war that the imperial couple had been in their town at all.
But the only musician presently to be found in Zwickau was found in the Church of Mary, for most people worked as clothmakers and cloth dyers and linen weavers and tanners and, though they almost died out after their exploitation by Napoleon's army, flsmiths.
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 Today in history - March 11 - Boston.com
In 1810, Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
In 1861, the Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., 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.
www.boston.com /news/history/articles/2006/03/10/today_in_history___march_11   (421 words)

  
 Regency Weddings
And when Napoleon himself remarried in 1810, his bride, Marie Louise of Austria, wore a typical white muslin Regency column dress for her official church wedding
The magazine, which featured articles by famous authors and colored plates of the latest fashions, attained a circulation of 150,000 by 1858 and was considered an arbiter of morals and taste.
The church was consecrated in 1726 and we are thus afforded an approximate view of a London church in the most up-to-date, early Georgian style.
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 Telarc International:
His virtuosity on the instrument earned him the sobriquet “the Paganini of the Guitar” in Europe.
After settling in Vienna in 1806, he became a favorite of the Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria (Napoleon’s second wife).
He was much admired by, and worked with, many of the greatest musicians of the day, including Beethoven, Rossini, Hummel, Schubert, and Spohr.
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