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5.08.2014

The Guermantes Way III p 710-

p 711 | Joseph Fouché, 1st Duke of Otranto,  (French statesman & Minister of Police under Napoleon & Louis XVIII, 1759-1820).
p 711 | Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier, 1755-1824), known as "the Desired" (le Désiré), monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France & Navarre 1814-24, except for 100 days in 1815.  His brother was Louis XVI (1754-93), King of France & Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition & execution during the French Revolution. 


p 711 | >> Princess Caroline Murat (1782-1839) was Caroline Bonaparte (sister of Napoleon I), who also was a Queen of Naples. But not the same Queen of Naples as Maria Carolina (1752-1815), sister of Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI.