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Spanish Revolution of 1820. Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duke d’Angoulême (born Aug. 6, 1775, Versailles, France—died June 3, 1844, Gorizia, Venetia, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]) was the last dauphin of France and a prominent figure in the restoration of the Bourbon line after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Angoulême was the elder son of ...
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Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the elder son of Charles X and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He is identified by the Guinness World Records as the shortest-reigning monarch, reigning for less than 20 minutes during the July Revolution , [1] but this is not backed up by historical ...
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Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême. Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was born on August 6, 1775, the son of the Count of Artois and Marie Thérèse of Savoy. He is less well known than his cousin and wife, Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, who was born at Versailles on December 19, 1778. She was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie ...
The Duke of Angouleme was the nephew of the last pre-Revolution French King, Louis XVI (1754-1793). During the Revolution he joined the Royalist army and lead the Vendee rising in 1795; throughout the Napoleonic Wars he fought on the allied side, living in England from 1807 to 1814 and serving under the Duke of Wellington. The Restoration of 1815 brought his uncle Louis XVIII (1755-1824) to ...
Tweet. Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duc d'Angoulême (1778-1844) was a member of the French Royal Family who returned to France with the British in 1814, fought against Napoleon's supporters during the 100 Days, and who died in exile after his father Charles X was overthrown. Angoulême's father, Charles, comte d'Artois, was the fourth child of ...
Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the eldest son of Charles X of France and the last person in line to be King of France from 1824 to 1830. He was technically King of France and Navarre for less than 20 minutes before he himself abdicated. [1] He gave up being the King, after his father also did.
Taken from the Visigoths by Clovis in 507, it was the seat of the counts of Angoulême from the 9th century. Fought over by the French and English in the Hundred Years’ War, it also suffered in the religious wars of the late 16th century. The Land of Angoulême was the name given to the site of present-day New York City in 1524 by Giovanni da ...
