When it comes to falling in love, most girls' hearts are probably the same as those of the Purple Xia Fairy: "My crush is a hero of the world, and one day he will step on the seven-colored clouds to marry me." ”！
Yes, to marry a mighty, all-eyed hero, think of it all beat faster, excited to sleep! But the question also comes: will you be happy if you marry a hero?
Xiaobian did not dare to draw conclusions here, but Princess Marie Louisa of Austria, although married to the European super invincible hero, The Emperor of the French Empire Napoleon I, she used her life to prove that the taste is really difficult to say!
She was the great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa, the Holy Roman Empress known as the "Mother-in-Law of Europe", and the Empress of Napoleon Bonaparte, the founder of the First French Empire, Marie Louise, Archduke of Austria.
Mary Louise
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She grew up in an anti-French atmosphere
On December 12, 1791, the fifty-sixth year of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Marie Luisa was born in the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Franz II and the mother of Princess Maria Theresa of naples and Sicily.
The family of Holy Roman Emperor Franz II
In chronological terms, she was not only the great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, but also the niece of Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, and the granddaughter of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily.
Maria Teresa, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France
Mary Louise was raised from an early age to be a talented lady, and her parents gave her a multilingual education. In addition to her native German, she is fluent in English, French, Italian, Latin and Spanish.
However, Mary Louise's cognitive era coincided with the outbreak of conflict between France and Austria. Moreover, Marie Luisa's aunt, Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, and her husband, King Louis XVI of France, were guillotined because of the French Revolution. As a member of the family, Marie Luisa's father, Franz II, was particularly hostile to the French Revolution.
Mary Louise's father, Franz II, was the last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the first Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
It can be said that she had been living in an atmosphere of disgust with France and French ideas, and that the Third Coalition had pushed Austria to the brink of destruction, which had deepened Marie Louise's resentment towards France and for Napoleon.
In 1805, due to the invasion of french troops, Mary Louise was forced to flee Vienna with the members of the Austrian royal family, took refuge in Hungary, and then to Galicia, and did not return to Vienna until 1806, when her father also gave up the title of Holy Roman Emperor, but still retained the title of Austrian Emperor, because the French invaded Mary's father's Principality of Modena, so Mary's dislike of France was even deeper. In 1809, war broke out again between France and Austria, Austria lost again, and the members of the Austrian royal family had to flee again.
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Marriage contract with Napoleon
▲ Napoleon I
In 1809, considering the danger of assassination at any time, Napoleon I realized that he needed an heir to consolidate his empire, but the then Empress Josephine did not give birth to an heir for Napoleon, so Napoleon had to divorce Queen Josephine, and then began to propose to Archduke Anna Pavlovna, the daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
▲ Russian Grand Duchess Anna Pavnovna
The Austrian royal family was very panicked at first sight, because if Russia and France were to be allied because of the marriage, their situation would become very serious, so they wanted to use the marriage to ease the relations between France and Austria, so Franz II wanted Emperor Napoleon to marry his daughter Mary Louise.
Although Mary Louise did not have a good feeling for France, she agreed to the marriage for the sake of her father and for the sake of Austria.
On March 11, 1810, at the age of 18, Marie Louise married Napoleon I, 41, in the Augustinian Church next to Vienna's Hofburg, a very ornate wedding that made Mary Louise empress of Napoleon I, and ushered in a new era of peace and friendship between France and Austria, which had been at war for the past two decades.
▲ Augustinerkirche, today's Augustine Church
Wedding of Mary Louise and Napoleon I
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Birth of Napoleon II
After the marriage, Mary Louise soon settled in the French court, although Napoleon at first said that he married Mary only to pass on the generations, but after the marriage he and Mary got along very well, Mary Louise was very polite and gentle, and never interfered in politics, and with Napoleon "never lies, never affairs", the two people can be said to be respectful.
On March 20, 1811, Marie Louise gave birth to a boy, and Napoleon I, who had a son in middle age, was particularly excited, and immediately named his son François Joseph Charles Bonaparte "King of Rome" and established him as the heir to the throne of the French Empire, later Napoleon II. After having children, the virtuous Mary Louise single-mindedly cared for her son.
Mary Louise and Napoleon II
Napoleon I was very fond of Princess Marie Luisa and regarded her as a jewel in the palm of his hand. Napoleon I once commented that Princess Marie Luisa was a "good wife and mother", naïve and simple, "she will say what she wants bluntly, but she rarely needs it". It can be seen that Princess Marie Louisa herself does not actually feel happy.
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The fall of the French Empire
Although Princess Marie Louisa was always indifferent to her husband, Napoleon I, trusted her. In 1812, Napoleon I made his wife, Princess Marie Louise, regent of the French Empire, and remained in Paris to contain the Austrian Empire.
However, the cold winter in Russia became the biggest obstacle to Napoleon I's conquest of Russia, and Napoleon I suffered a crushing defeat due to the delay in French supplies and the dispersion of troops.
The following year, in 1813, Napoleon's father-in-law, Emperor Franz I of the Austrian Empire, began to rebel against the water, taking advantage of the damage to his son-in-law Napoleon I, and united with european monarchies such as the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Sweden to form the Sixth Anti-French Alliance and declare war on Napoleon.
In 1814, the Coalition marched on France and captured Paris, Napoleon surrendered, signed the Abdication At the Palais Fontainebleau in Paris, and was exiled to Elba, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, where the First French Empire collapsed.
Princess Marie Luisa did not go to Elba to accompany her husband Napoleon I, but fled directly from Paris to Vienna with her son, still retaining her royal status and the title of "Empress".
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Mary Louise remarried several times
In 1815, Napoleon I fled from elba and successfully entered Paris, wanting to restore, but under the overwhelming superiority of more than 700,000 troops in the Anti-French League, Napoleon I was defeated at Waterloo and exiled to the Atlantic island of St. Helena, the title of "Emperor" was also stripped, and At the same time, Mary Louise's royal status and the title of "Empress" were also stripped away.
Her husband, Napoleon I, was living on an isolated island to suffer, and Princess Marie Luisa was not at all distressed. She not only instigated her son François Joseph Charles Bonaparte to hate her father, but also openly cohabited with her lover, The Count of Nepeg. Napoleon I died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
Mary Louise married her lover, Count Nipponberg, only 4 months after Napoleon's death. In 1829, the Count of Nepeg died, and Princess Mary Louise was once again widowed. In 1834, Princess Marie Louise married for the third time, married countess of Bomber and became Countess of Bomber.
At this time, Princess Marie Louisa had a more vague impression of her ex-husband Napoleon I. She spent the rest of her life in her Austrian fiefdom of Parma, where she made several reforms in an effort to demonstrate a capable and wise ruler posture.
On December 17, 1847, Marie Louise fell ill with pleurisy at the age of 56. Later, her body was transferred to the royal tomb in Vienna for burial, and a generation of beauties died.
Mary Louise had the momentum of her great-grandmother, Empress Maria Theresa
The difference in the age of mary louise and Napoleon in their twenties, coupled with mary louise's hostility to France, made the political marriage not mixed with love. If Mary Louise had not been a member of the Habsburgs, had not married Napoleon, would her life have changed to a whole new way of life?
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