Revolutionary and politician in United States of America.
Wife of Joshua Bates (1788-1864), American financier.
Trained as a lawyer, was a member of the French legislature and accompanied his brother, Napoleon I, on military campaigns. He held diplomatic posts before and after his brother’s coup in 1799, including negotiating the Treaty of Amiens with Britain in 1802. He was made king of Naples by Napoleon in 1806, where he reformed justice, landowning, finance, and education, but in 1808 was ordered by Napoleon to become king of Spain. There his reforms were resisted and he was heavily dependent on French troops and advisers.
Son of Louis XVI, proclaimed King of France by royalists in 1793. Placed in the care of a shoemaker by the Republican government after the execution of his father, he probably died of neglect.
Dutch anti-classicist and extravagant artist working at a time when classicism dominated Dutch art, he was the most ardent propagandist of the era of William and Mary, producing dozens of illustrated broadsheets on the main events of their reign. Besides these, De Hooghe illustrated some hundred books, including literary texts and historical and topographical works.
Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (1626-1650).
Naundorff claimed to be Prince Louis-Charles, or Louis XVII of France, son of Louis XVI, King of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria.
Belgium court physician of King Leopold I.
Belgian politician, publicist and philanthropist.
Belgian physician and surgeon. Took part in the Battle of Waterloo as a doctor. Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Belgian engraver and lithographer.
Belgian diplomat, administrator, politician and writer.
Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium (from 1832).
Belgian politician.
Belgian politician. Member of House of Representatives 1831-1848.
Belgian major general.