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Empress of the French 1791-1847. 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 ...
Napoleon's other Wife is not a biography proper. It begins with Marie-Louise in 1810 preparing for her marriage to Napoleon, nineteen years after Mozart's death (the first entry in the ‘Short Chronology for the life of Marie-Louise) and also Marie-Louise's birth. These first nineteen year are never recounted. The book claims to be a reconstruction …
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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 despite the difficulties ...
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This timeline follows on from our “Divorce” timeline and forms part of our close-up on: the marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louiseof Austria. With the marriage between Napoleon and Josephine officially dissolved in January, 1810, Napoleon was free to continue his search for a new bride. A union with Russia was hindered by court opposition (particu...
15 February, 1810: Metternich announced to Marie-Louise that Napoleon wished to marry her. She answered: “I want only what my duty commands me to want.” [quoted by Paul Ganière, “Marie-Louise d’Autriche” in Dictionnaire Napoléon, ed. Jean Tulard, p. 1140] That same day, the exchange of marriage ratifications/agreements took place in Vienna (news of...
1 April, 1810: the civil marriage of Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria and Napoleon took place in a second ceremony. 2 April, 1810: the religious ceremony was held in the chapel at the Louvre in Paris. See our page on the painting The religious marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise in the Salon Carré at the Louvre, on 2 April, 1810, by Georges ...
10 May, 1810: Alexandre-Florian-Joseph, Comte Colonna Walewski, was born to Napoleon’s mistress, Marie Lontchinska, a Polish countess. 20 March, 1811: Napoléon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte was born to Napoleon and Marie-Louise. (H.D.W. March 2010)
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. Marie-Louise, a member of the house of Habsburg, was the eldest ...
