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| | CARIGNANO - LoveToKnow Article on CARIGNANO |
 | | Carignano was erected by Charles Emmanuel I. of Savoy into a principality as an appanage for his third son, Thomas Francis (1596-1656), whose descendant, Charles Albert, prince of Carignano, became king of Sardinia on the extinction of the elder line of the house of Savoy with the death of Charles Felix in 1831. |
 | | The famous Prince Eugene was the second son of the first duke of Carignan. |
 | | The first of these, which became extinct in 1734, was founded by Eugene Maurice, second son of Thomas, by his wife Marie de Cond, countess of Soissons, who received his mothers countship as his appanage. |
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