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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1907: A Royal Wedding
; ...NEWS EVESHAM: -- Prince Charles de Bourbon and Princess Louise de...Worcestershire home of the Duc d'Orleans. The sun was...were the King of Spain, Duc d'Orleans, Comtesse de Paris, Duque de Calabria, Duc de Guise and the parents...
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NAPOLEON III, LORD PALMERSTON AND THE ENTENTE CORDIALE.
; ...bourgeois revolution' in France ousted Charles X and the Second Bourbon Restoration, and a new era in Anglo...quasi-constitutional Orleans monarchy of Charles X's successor Louis-Philippe was therefore...minister of foreign affairs) and the Duc de Broglie (minister of the interior...in 1829 and ...
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A NOBLE CALLING.
; Globe-trotting prince Charles-Henri Lobkowicz finds...south of Paris, Prince Charles-Henri Lobkowicz drapes...of his ancestor the Duc de Berry and tells an...Princess Francoise de Bourbon-Parmeo, is descended...King, Louis XIV. The Bourbon-Parmes made brilliant...land where Lobkowicz's ...
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Politics and Theater: the Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830.(Book Review)
; ...The political history of the second Bourbon Restoration in France was long written...Sorel observed that the Braganza and Bourbon drive against the Jesuits from the...Kroen. Certainly one stock image of Charles X was the rumour that he was a secret...publicity of the assassination of the duc de ...
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The Sun King eclipsed John Adamson wonders just how 'great' was the British victory at the Battle of Blenheim
; Blenheim: Battle for Europe by Charles Spencer Weidenfeld & Nicolson...anniversary of the Blenheim campaign, Charles Spencer's new study offers...18-year-old grandson, Philippe, duc d'Anjou, should succeed to...wholly owned subsidiary of Bourbon France. Combined with Spanish...modern Belgium), the ...
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Louis XVI's daughter and the Revolution that shaped her.(BOOKS)
; ...all: Marie-Therese de Bourbon, only daughter of the...future Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. Named...wanted her to marry her Bourbon first cousin, the Duc d'Angouleme, her paternal...Then in 1814, the Bourbons actually did return...believed that, had the Bourbons followed the ...
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BIOGRAPHY ANDREW ROBERTS ON ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST - AND MOST REPUGNANT - FIGURES
; ...pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, has been...his hypocrisy in publicly denouncing the Duc d'Orleans for immorality, while sharing...kidnap and murder of the innocent young Bourbon, the Duc d'Enghien; the malicious tricks he played...
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Francis I of France dies at Rambouillet: March 31st, 1547.(Freeze Frame)
; ...presumptive to the crown; son of me nobleman Charles d'Angouleme, it was as a Prince of...into an alliance against the Emperor Charles V in June 1520 -- he left permanent...where he was captured by the troops of Charles V) and the traditional pageants and...pursue his duel with the Habsburg ...
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HISTORY ADAM ZAMOYSKI IS IMPRESSED BY AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORGOTTEN REIGNS THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF NAPOLEON
; ...of Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis-Philippe...His father, the duc d'Orleans, was...branch of the Bourbon dynasty and an...in 1814. 'The duc d'Orleans', Louis...Louis XVIII and Charles X, and his passive...reactionary regime of Charles X was toppled...
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Who's who?
; ...without its mysteries? Did the Dauphin, Louis Charles, heir to Louis XVI, die in the Temple prison...stamped by the Dutch minister of justice, read: `Charles Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon, Louis XVII'. The puzzle of Anastasia, meanwhile...
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