Alexandre Cabanel 1808-1879 Frankrijk

After the Coup of December 1851, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte instituted the Second French Empire, and became Emperor Napoleon III. This new empire had its own share of successes and shortcomings.

The abdication of Edward VIII - and how this dashing young monarch's affair with an American divorcee shook the Establishment - and the country - to its very core.

Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, also known as Grand Duke Alexis, (St. Petersburg 14 January 1850 (2 January O.S.) – Paris, 14 November 1908) was the fifth child and the fourth son of Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse).

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