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Hace 5 días · Ela era Anna Maria Grosholtz, posteriormente conhecida como Marie Tussaud ou Madame Tussaud. A artista nasceu em 1761 em Estrasburgo, França. Depois da morte de seu pai, o soldado suíço Joseph Grosholtz, sua mãe, Anne-Marie Walder, foi para Berna, na Suíça, para trabalhar como governanta do médico Philippe Curtius.
Hace 5 días · Born to an Orthodox mother from a noble lineage of White Russians and a non-practicing Jewish father, he was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, one of the...
Hace 5 días · After the French Revolution, the hotel was looted and rented in 1803 to Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), son of Joséphine de Beauharnais, the wife of the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. In other words, the son-in-law of the future emperor!
Hace 1 día · The French invasion of Egypt and Syria was a military campaign in and occupation of Ottoman territories in Egypt and Syria by French forces under the command of Napoleon took place during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Hace 4 días · Catholic bishops in Vietnam have officially committed to the beatification process of two bishops, first missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) to the Far East who were ...
Hace 5 días · Napoleon, as king of Italy, appointed his stepson, Eugène de Beauharnais, as viceroy and Antonio Aldini as secretary of state, forcing Melzi to step aside. Although Italian autonomy remained limited, Napoleon’s victories, which constantly increased the territory of the kingdom, provided some compensation.
Hace 3 días · Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.