Biographies : 187
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BiographyMAXIMILIAN I
King Maximilian I of Bavaria. (1756 –1825) was prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1805, King of Bavaria (as Maximilian I) from 1805 to 1825 Born in Schwetzingen – between Heidelberg and Mannheim – Maximilian Joseph took service in 1777 as a colonel in the French army and rose rapidly to the […]
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BiographyMAXIMILIAN I (1832-1867) Emperor of Mexico
The Archduke Ferdinand-Josef, brother of Franz-Josef, and the second son of the Archduke Franz-Karl, at first served in the Navy. He then became viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1857), a position he occupied only until in 1859. He was contacted when the Empire was proclaimed on 10 July, 1863, following extensive diplomatic talks on […]
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BiographyMELAS, Michael Friedrich Benedikt
Fact file Born Radeln, Transylvania, 1729, died Elbesteinitz (present day Czech Republic), 1806 Entered Austrian army 1746 Fought in many engagements during the Seven Years War (1756-63) as adjutant to Marschal Daun Rose through the ranks to be appointed commander in chief of the Austrian army in Italy in 1799 (at the age of 70!) […]
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BiographyMENEVAL, Claude François
Meneval, Napoleon's closest collaborator for eleven years, was born in Paris, on 8 April 1778, at 19, rue des Marais Saint-Germain which became, in 1864, rue Visconti (6th arrondissement), near rue Bonaparte… and the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He was born into a middle-class family whose name was variously spelt Meneval, Menneval and even Mennevalle. The […]
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BiographyMETTERNICH-Winneburg-zu Beilstein, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Graf von (1773-1859)
The great Habsburg statesman of the nineteenth century, Metternich was born in Koblenz on 15 May, 1773. His university career started in Strasburg (1788) where he studied under the famous teacher of law and political history Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (other pupils included Louis-Guillaume Otto (Metternich's opposite number in the Marie Louise marriage negotiations), Benjamin […]
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BiographyMIOLLIS, Sextius-Alexandre, François, comte de‘Nos conquêtes sont perdues, mais vous, mon Général, jamais ne vous perdrez les vôstres en Italie, je veux dire l'estime profonde des Mantouans, des Gênois, des Vénitiens, des Toscans, des Romains, et ce qu'il y a peut-être encore de plus remarquable, c'est que vous êtes…
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BiographyMOKE PLEYEL, Marie
Born Paris 1811, died St Josse-ten-Noode (near Brussels) 1875.Marie displayed a precocious talent for the piano, studying notably with Ignaz Moscheles and Frederic Kalkbrenner, and she was to perform her first public concerto, in Brussels, aged 14. In 1830, she began teaching the piano in a girls' school in the Marais in Paris and was […]
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BiographyMolitor, Gabriel-Jean-Joseph
Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor was born in 1770 and served as a volunteer in the Moselle in 1791. He went on to serve in the Armée de Rhin-et-Moselle between 1795 and 1797. By 1799, he was a général de brigade and by 1800, had become a général de division. He saw action in Italy in August 1805 […]
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BiographyMONNIER, Jean-Charles
Fact file Born Cavaillon (Vaucluse), 22 March, 1758, died Paris, 30 January, 1816 Sous-lieutenant in the 7e regiment d'infanterie (ex-Régiment de Champagne), 1 July 1792.Adjoint aux adjudants généraux of the Armée de l'Intérieur, 30 October, 1792 Adjoint aux adjudants généraux of the Armée de l'Italie, 3 February, 1793 Provisional adjudant général chef de bataillon of […]
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BiographyMONTALIVET, Comte Jean-Pierre Bachasson de
Born on 5 July, 1766, in Neunkirchen (Germany), where his father was stationed, Montalivet began his career as an officer cadet in the Royal Nassau Hussards, a regiment in the French service. He left in 1779 to complete his law studies in Valence, from where his family was originally. In 1785, he worked as a lawyer in […]