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    Palais Garnier (Paris Opera), Pairs, 1873 Tomb of Belgian photographer Louis Ghémar, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, 1873 Architectural work for the Théâtre de...
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    Cádiz to enlist in the army fighting the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" sent by the Duke of Angoulême. He was wounded and briefly held as a prisoner...
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    Charlotte and her fiancé Maximilian by Louis-Joseph Ghémar (1857)....
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    Africa and the Mediterranean countries. In 1895, he accompanied Archduke Louis Victor as a member of the imperial legation during the coronation of Tsar...
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    royal oath, it is noteworthy to mention the inauguration of regent Érasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier on 25 February 1831, which took place at the Palais de...
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    was raised by his mother's sister, Jeanne Wittouck, and her husband, Jean-Louis Van Dievoet, Secretary of the Court of Cassation. He descended from the...
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    and last child and the only daughter of the Belgian royal couple, after Louis-Philippe (who died less than one year old in 1834), Leopold (born in 1835)...
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    Incident, Paul Jean Clays, c. 1850 Portrait of Guillaume Delcourt, Louis Joseph Ghémar, 1854 A part of the collection of historic medals This section showcases...
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    Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, married an Orléans prince, Louis, Duke of Nemours, second son of King Louis Philippe I. Their two sons were brilliantly married:...
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    Romanian offer, the Belgian king could not have envisaged a grandson of King Louis-Philippe occupying a foreign throne without offending Napoleon III, Belgium's...
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    1841. Châsse de Sainte-Ursule, peinte par Memling, lithographiée par MM. Ghemar et Manche de la grandeur des panneaux, coloriée d'après l'original par M...
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