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Marie Louise (12 December 1791 – 17 December 1847) was an Austrian archduchess who reigned as Duchess of Parma from 11 April 1814 until her death in 1847. She was Napoleon 's second wife and as such Empress of the French and Queen of Italy from their marriage on 1 April 1810 until his abdication on 6 April 1814.
Mar 25, 2024 · Marie-Louise (born December 12, 1791, Vienna—died December 17, 1847, Parma, Italy) was an Austrian archduchess who became empress of the French ( impératrice des Français) as the second wife of the emperor Napoleon I; she was later duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla.
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Childhood in Austria. Marie-Louise de Habsburg-Lorraine was born on 12 December, 1791, in Vienna. Her parents, Francis II, who succeeded his father, Leopold II, as Holy Roman Emperor on 1 March, 1792, and Maria Theresa of Naples were both related to Marie-Antoinette. Raised by her various governesses, she had a bourgeois but happy upbringing ...
Jan 2, 2017 · 11 March, 1810, 5.30pm: Marie-Louise married Napoleon by proxy in Vienna, with Archduke Charles standing in for Napoleon. 13 March, 1810: Marie-Louise left Vienna for France. 16 March, 1810: the Austrian delegation arrived at the border between Austria and Bavaria, at Braunau-sur-Inn.
Born in Vienna, Austria, on December 12, 1791; died in Parma, Italy, on December 17, 1847; daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman emperor (r. 1792–1806), who was king of Austria as Francis I (r. 1804–1835), and Maria Teresa of Naples (1772–1807); sister of Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria (r. 1835–1848), and Leopoldina of Austria (1797 ...
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Marie Louise, the second wife of Napoleon I, was the great-niece of Queen Marie Antoinette. The daughter of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, her upbringing was marked by a hatred of Revolutionary France and then of Bonaparte, as Austria was repeatedly humiliated by defeat and stripped of its territories.
