Biographies : 25
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BiographyMAC MAHON, Patrice de, Duc de Magenta
Patrice de Mac Mahon was born in Sully, in the Saône-et-Loire département on 13 June, 1808. The Mac Mahon family originally came from Ireland before arriving in France after the fall of the House of Stuart. Having lost his fortune, Mac Mahon’s grandfather, Jean-Baptiste de Mac Mahon (born in Limerick on 23 May, 1715 and […]
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BiographyMACDONALD, Etienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre'Il ne m'aime pas, mais c'est un homme d'honneur qui a des sentiments élevés et sur le quel je peux, je crois, compter', Napoleon to Caulaincourt, 1814.
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BiographyMALEVILLE, Jean
Factfile Born 1741 Domme (Périgord), died Paris, 21 November, 1824.1760 lawyer at the Parlement de Bordeaux1790 Member and subsequently Président du Directoire of his Département1791 Member of the Tribunal de Cassation1795 Député at the Conseil des Anciens, 1797 did not support the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor and retired from public life1800 appointed by the […]
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BiographyMARESCALCHI, Ferdinando; MELZI D’ERIL, Francesco
Ferdinando Marescalchi, 1754-1816, comte (1809), Italian politician Born in Bologna, then in the Papal States, on 26 February 1754, into a noble family, he became a hereditary member of the Senate of that town. In June 1796, he rallied to the French and became acquainted with general Bonaparte, who showed him a great deal of […]
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BiographyMARET, Hugues-Bernard, Duc de Bassano
Born on 22 July, 1763 in Dijon, Maret was a supporter of the Revolution and published a report of the debates that took place in the National Constituent Assembly. This report was picked up and published by the Moniteur. Although initially a member of the Jacobin club, he was to leave the group after the […]
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BiographyMarie Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Charlotte of Belgium ex-Empress of Mexico
Marie Charlotte (Marie-Amélie-Auguste-Victoire-Clémentine-Léopoldine) of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, daughter of King Leopold I of Belgium and Leopold’s second wife, Louise-Marie of France (eldest daughter of Louis-Philippe), and sister of Leopold II of Belgium, was born in Laeken on 7 June, 1840. Upon the death of her mother in 1850, Charlotte was handed over to a governess, the countess […]
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BiographyMARIE-LOUISE OF AUSTRIA
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 despite […]
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BiographyMarie Walewska
1786-1818, Napoleon’s Polish mistress The beautiful Marie Walewska (née Laczynska) was born in Warsaw on 7 December, 1786, into a family that had been ennobled in 1574. Her father, Mathieu Laczynski, who had fought heroically during the struggle for Polish independence, died prematurely, leaving his wife Eva to bring up their six young children on […]
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BiographyMARMONT, Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse de‘Il était le plus médiocre des généraux ; je l'ai soutenu, défendu contre tous parce que je lui croyais de l'honneur... il a oublié qu'il doit tous ses honneurs au prestige de cette cocarde nationale qu'il foule aux pieds pour se parer du signe des…
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BiographyMASSENA, André‘Masséna avait été un homme très supérieur qui, par un privilège très particulier, ne possédait l'équilibre tant désiré qu'au milieu du feu ; il lui naissait au milieu du danger', Napoleon on Saint Helena to Las Cases.