|
|
Article: Death of ex-Queen Isabella II of Spain: April 9th, 1904.(Months Past)
- Article from:
- History Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
QUEEN OF SPAIN from the age of three, Isabella II abdicated after thirty-six years of more or less ceaseless turmoil, and spent almost half her life in exile in France, though she characteristically never learned to speak French properly. Her accession as a baby in 1833 in succession to her father, the autocratic Ferdinand VII, precipitated seven years of civil war with the Carlists--the staunchly Catholic, traditionalist supporters of her uncle, Don Carlos.
Isabella's first regent was her mother, who weakened her position by morganatically marrying a shopkeeper's son and by her reputation for ruthless greed--she was involved in the Cuban slave trade. In 1840 she ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Louis Philippe Lucien Chouinard
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;
May 5, 2009 ;
300 words
...MOUNT SAVAGE, Md. - Louis Philippe Lucien Chouinard, 78, of Mount Savage, Md., passed away ... wa born in Lewiston, July 5, 1930, the son of the late Louis Philippe Chouinard and Carmen (Ruel) Chouinard. He retired from ...
|
|