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Also Known As Charles II • Charles le Hardi • Charles the Bold
Born 1365
Died January 25, 1431 (aged 66) • Nancy • France
House / Dynasty Carolingian dynasty
Louis I
duke of Anjou
Chambord, detail of a portrait by C.-J. Fuhr, b. 1832
Henri Dieudonné d’Artois, count de Chambord
French noble
Paris, Philippe d'Orléans, comte de
Philippe d’Orléans, count de Paris
French pretender
Orléans, Louis-Philippe-Robert, duc d'
Louis-Philippe-Robert, duke d’Orléans
French pretender
Isabella Clara Eugenia, archduchess of Austria
archduchess of Austria
Charles I
duke of Lower Lorraine
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron
president of France