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  Montpensier: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A count is a nobleman in most european countries, equivalent in rank to a british earl, whose wife is still a "countess"....
Mademoiselle de Montpensier was a title conferred to some women of the royal family, EHandler: no quick summary.
He was initially Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne before he became Duke of Bourbon by marriage.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/montpensier.htm   (1018 words)

  
 ANNE MARIE LOUISE DORLEANS MONTPENSIER - LoveToKnow Article on ANNE MARIE LOUISE DORLEANS MONTPENSIER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MONTPENSIER, ANNE MARIE LOUISE DORLEANS, DUCHESSE DE (1627-1693), French memoir-writer, was born at the Louvre on the 29th of May 1627.
Her mother was Marie de Bourbon, heiress of the Montpensier family.
See: ANNE MARIE LOUISE DORLEANS MONTPENSIER at LoveToKnow.
www.1911ency.org /M/MO/MONTPENSIER_ANNE_MARIE_LOUISE_D_ORLEANS.htm   (632 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Orleans
The See of New Orleans remained vacant many years after the departure of bishop Peñalver.
In 1798 the Duc d'Orléans (afterwards King Luis-Philippe of France) with his two brothers, the Duc de Montpensier and the Count de Beaujolais, visited New Orleans.
They were received with honour, and when Louis-Philippe became King of France he remembered many of those who had entertained him when in exile, and was generous to the Church in the old French province.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11005b.htm   (12845 words)

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