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Also Known As Charles of Lorraine
Born 953
Died May 21, 992? • Orléans
House / Dynasty Carolingian dynasty
Chambord, detail of a portrait by C.-J. Fuhr, b. 1832
Henri Dieudonné d’Artois, count de Chambord
French noble
Louis I
duke of Anjou
Paris, Philippe d'Orléans, comte de
Philippe d’Orléans, count de Paris
French pretender
Isabella Clara Eugenia, archduchess of Austria
archduchess of Austria
Orléans, Louis-Philippe-Robert, duc d'
Louis-Philippe-Robert, duke d’Orléans
French pretender
Charles I
duke of Lorraine [1365–1431]
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg, duke de Dalberg
French diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Baldwin V
count of Flanders
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Albert Gondi
Florentine diplomat and politician
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
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