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3 days ago · Alfonso XIII became King of Spain at the moment of his birth in May 1886 because his father, Alfonso XII, had died five months earlier.His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was regent until May 1902, when he turned sixteen and took the oath of office under the Constitution of 1876, when he began his personal reign, which lasted until 14 April 1931, when he had to go into exile after the ...
4 days ago · Formez vos bataillons, (Form your battalions) Marchons, marchons, (Let’s march, let’s march) Qu’un sang impur (Let an impure blood) Abreuve nos sillons (repeat) (Water our furrows)
You might for example find more than a bit of good inspiration in the character of Charles d'Artois, duc de Berry (1778-1820), a nephew of king Louis XVIII and son of (future) king Charles X whose love story with Miss Brown (including daughters who were eventually married into the aristocracy) is as interesting as the story of his death or of ...
4 days ago · The last crowned 'Louis' was Louis XVIII, who reigned from 1814-24. He was the grandson of Louis XV and a brother of Louis XVI, who was executed in the course of the French Revolution. The latter's son, who died, was (theoretically anyway) king from 1793-9; he became Louis XVII upon the death of his father, but was never crowned.
3 days ago · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of ...
1 day ago · The Roman Numerals Converter is used to convert Roman numerals to Hindu–Arabic numerals or vice versa. Now enhanced with the ability to handle sequences of Roman numerals separated by spaces, dots, hyphens, slashes, or commas. Simply enter a series of Roman or Arabic numbers separated by any of these common separators, and the tool will ...
2 days ago · Napoleon III. Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
