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  • Grand-Duchy of Parma, where she reigned till 1847, marrying a third time, it is said, the Count Bombellea, and dying, just too soon to be hunted from her Duchy by the Revolution of 1848.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Russia had to be contented with a large increase of her Polish dominions, getting most of the Grand-Duchy of Westphalia.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Efforts in the same direction were made by Joseph's brother Leopold in his Grand-Duchy of Tuscany.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • How unfortunate and ill-advised was the action of the Congress of Vienna in the creation of the Grand-Duchy of

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • The boundaries of the new kingdom and of the Grand-Duchy were fixed by the treaty of May 31, 1815, and confirmed by the

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • All evidence also points to the conclusion that in accepting the personal sovereignty of the Grand-Duchy he had no intention of treating Luxemburg otherwise than as part of his kingdom.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • At first the king had thought of nominating his second son Frederick as his successor in Luxemburg, but he changed his mind and gave him an indemnity elsewhere; and he himself states the reason, "since we have judged it advisable _ (convenable) _ in the general interest of the kingdom to unite the Grand-Duchy to it and to place it under the same constitutional laws."

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Belgic provinces, four were representatives of the Grand-Duchy, which was subject to the same legislation and taxes as the kingdom.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Further than this, the Grand-Duchy was made one of the states of the Germanic

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

  • Netherlands, of which it had been one of the provinces since the time of the Burgundian dukes, and was erected into a Grand-Duchy.

    History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

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