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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6), volume 2

Note 391 — BOOK I[361]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Marie Anne Elisa Bacciochi (1774-1820), Bonaparte's eldest sister, married Felix Pascal Prince Bacciochi in 1797. Her husband became Prince of Lucca and Piombino in 1805, Elisa exercising the real power; and in 1808 Napoleon made her Grand-duchess of Tuscany. She was dethroned in 1814, and assumed the title of Countess of Compignano. Prince Bacciochi died in Rome in 1841.—T.

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