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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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D'angoulême, Duchesse
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Daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette; was released from restraint after the execution of her parents in exchange for prisoners in the Royalist's hands; fled to Vienna, where she was driven forth; married her cousin, to whom she was early betrothed; could find no place of safe refuge but in England; returned to France on Napoleon's exile to Elba, and headed a body of troops against him on his return; after Waterloo, returned to France and stayed till July 1830, and lived to see Louis Philippe, in 1848, driven from the throne; Napoleon called her "the only man of her family"; left "Memoirs" (1778-1851).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'D'angoulême, Duchesse'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/dangoulaame-duchesse.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'D'angoulême, Duchesse'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/dangoulaame-duchesse.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
