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Wilhelm II, German Emperor - Wikipedia  Wilhelm II or William II was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the .... Wilhelm, from six years of age, was tutored and heavily influenced by the .... terms with France, beginning the process that by 1914 largely isolated Germany. .... German foreign policy under Wilhelm II was faced with a number of...
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Louis Philippe I - Wikipedia  Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773  26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 ... He spent 21 years in exile after he left France in 1793. He was .... into two towns, one of which took the name of Orleans, possibly in his honour. ..... Many remaining French monarchists regard the descendants of Louis Philippe's...
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Napoleon dies in exile - May 05, 1821 - HISTORY.com  Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that ... that the inhabitants of North Carolina return their allegiance to the king. ... first person to drive an automobile over a long distance, dies on this day in 1944, ... A second suitcase of body parts was found nearby on May 11, and a third washed up.
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Napoleon III - Emperor, Military Leader - Biography.com  Sep 23, 2014 ... French emperor Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, regained the throne ... Name: Napoleon III ... King Louis-Philippe exiled Louis-Napoleon to the United States, but he ... because he was seen by many as a distraction to the settlement of a ... III moved to England, where he would spend his final years.
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Napoleon - Wikipedia  Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during .... He spent the early years of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex ..... The French people name, and the Senate proclaims Napoleon-Bonaparte ..... Napoleon, expecting to win the war, delayed too long and lost this...
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List of French monarchs - Wikipedia  The monarchs of the Kingdom of France and its predecessors ruled from the establishment of ... This article lists all rulers to have held the title "King of the Franks", "King of ... were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region .... Georges Rouget (1783-1869) - Clovis III roi d'Austrasie en 691...
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List of French monarchs - Wikipedia  The Second French Republic lasted from ... When he was declared emperor, Louis-Napoleon...
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i. french absolutism a. introduction  I want to give you some background leading up to my reign. 14. and then I will tell you ... a. were imprisoned & even executed. 14. more ... A. REGENCY UNDER CARDINAL MAZARIN. 1. as Louis XIV ... (2) for 18 years - 1643-1661. (a) when he ... Louis also 1st French king who consistently encouraged writers. 6. he granted...
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Hassan II of Morocco Dies at 70; A Monarch Oriented to the West  Jul 24, 1999 ... King Hassan II, who ruled Morocco for 38 years, acted as a ... Yet when he ascended the throne on Feb. ... After the fall of France, the Free French forces promised ... he told The Associated Press in 1961, ''we have the right to practice .... In addition to his two sons, the King is survived by his wife, Lalla Latifa,...
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Ten Infamous Islands of Exile | History | Smithsonian  Jul 22, 2010 ... Just off the coast of Cannes in the Mediterranean Sea, the small, forested ... History's most notorious penal colony, Devil's Island actually consisted of ... got new life when the French government chose French Guiana as the .... By the late 19th century the independence movement had picked up momentum.
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September 1, 2008  ... The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar ... the Imperial Palace in this former capital was home to just 2 emperors Kyoto Her ... Attila Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Shah of Iran - Photo Essays - TIME  After a tumultuous reign that included both exile and supreme power, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled Iran 30 years ago this month.
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List of French monarchs - Wikipedia  The monarchs of the Kingdom of France and its predecessors ruled from the establishment of ... The branches of the dynasty which ruled after 1328, however, are generally ... 3.1 Direct Capetians (9871328); 3.2 House of Valois (13281589) ..... titular King of France as Louis XVII; in reality, however, he was imprisoned in...
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The Origins of Contemporary France: The Ancien Regime - Online ...  In the title of this work, L'Ancien Rgime, I have translated the French word ... suited to the occupant's habits, pursuits, character, peculiarities and caprices. ...... Hence it is that his estates become the refuge of all the scoundrels in the canton. ...... Even in comedy, necessarily portraying surrounding habits, even with Molire,...
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Chambers's encyclopaedia : a dictionary of universal knowledge for ...  The fibre of a number of species of Musa A CAPELLA, or A LA CAPELLA, in Mus., ... Aix, the I l       l 1 lh II French name of so many places connected with springs, .... King William wished to retain shall seek in vain for a more him permanently in ..... C.M.G., Companion of the Order of St. Michael and * This was originally IHE,...
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The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's ...  Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. ... the coast of France just over a month after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, the ... The ex-king's elegant New Jersey estate, Point Breeze, would in time evolve...
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King Louis XIV - Wikipedia  Louis XIV (5 September 1638  1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in ... At the time of his birth, his parents had been married for 23 years.
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Victor Hugo - His Life & Exile in Guernsey | VisitGuernsey  Victor Hugo spent 15 years in Guernsey & the island provided inspiration for ... and after unsuccessful attempts at refuge in Brussels and Jersey, Hugo arrived on ... Hugo lived in Hauteville House until 1870, when he returned to France after the ... Hugo described the Channel Islands as "fragments of France which fell into...
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A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study by ...  two months' time without an emperor or an army, and in a few ... out with his son at the head of the army, full of high hopes of ... after Napoleon left Paris, had brought his power to the verge of .... seriously wounded that he was obliged to surrender the chief ...... The career of William II soon became one of much interest and
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Einhard - AHS History  He finally left the royal household in 830 and retired to a rural location ... the language of his Life of Augustus, Life of Charlemagne. .... In solemn assembly the Franks appointed them kings on condition that they share the realm equally, Charles ..... when Charles inherited it from his father Pepin, was almost doubled in size.
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The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal. King Manuel I ...  If quincentenaries are anything to go by, then 1492 is now commemorated ... Jews had been periodically expelled from France (1182, 1306, 1311, 1327, 1394), as well as from Gascony (1287), Anjou (1289), Maine (1289), and England (1290). ... (1498); and from Iberian soil  Castile and Aragon (1492), Portugal (1497),...