← Table of contents
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 431 — BOOK X[399]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Isabella II. Queen of Spain (b. 1830 and still living) was made to usurp the throne, in 1833, on the death of Ferdinand VII., when a child of three, by the machinations of her mother, Maria Christina (cf. Vol. III., p. 221, n. 2 and Vol. V., p. 74, n. 4). Queen Isabella was deposed and driven from Spain in 1868, since which time she has resided in Paris.—T.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings