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    14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris. In the United...
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    Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch...
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  • wrestler and bodybuilder Felice Orsini (1819–1858), Italian revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Napoléon III Francesca Orsini, Italian scholar of South...
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    leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Felice Orsini was born at Meldola in Romagna, then part of the Papal...
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    Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is a castle in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy. It is located on the southern shore of Lake Bracciano. It was built in the 15th century...
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    The Orsini bomb was a terrorist improvised explosive device built by and named after Felice Orsini and used as a hand grenade on 14 January 1858 in an...
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  • Napoléon is the French form of the Italian given name Napoleone. Notable people with the name include: Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), French...
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  • and Claricia de Ruffo. The marriage had been arranged by Cardinal Napoleon Orsini, who was her mother's guardian. Anastasia, being Margherita's eldest...
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  • Berval as Tonin Jeanne Boitel as Olga Robert Le Vigan as Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini Pierre Larquey as Larquus Édouard Delmont as Le maire Gilson as Le...
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    Napoleone Orsini (1263 – 24 March 1342) was a Roman cardinal. His ecclesiastical career lasted 57 years, 54 of them as a cardinal, and included six conclaves...
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    Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg (18 October 1761 – 4 August 1832) was born a member of Orsini-Rosenberg family, son of Prince Vinzenz Fererius von Orsini-Rosenberg...
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    Depths (1936) - L'acteur alcoolique Romarin (1937) - Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini The Man from Nowhere (1937) - Le comte Papiano Franco de port (1937)...
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    as Pio Rajna (1891). The form Napoleone is found as early as Napoleone Orsini Frangipani (1263–1342), a Roman Cardinal. Rosa (1858) identified the name...
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    French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second...
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  • mid-1317 he traveled to Avignon to work in the service of Cardinal Napoleon Orsini (†1342) and obtained the benefits of a canonry of the collegiate church...
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  • associated with Oriel College and worked at the court of cardinal Napoleon Orsini John Aston (preacher) (fl. 1382), one of John Wycliffe's earliest followers...
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  • repress the republic movement following the assassination attempt by Felice Orsini, candidates for legislative elections were required to sign and deposit...
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    procession of Emperor Napoleon III. Eight people and a horse were killed and one hundred and fifty injured. Four men were arrested: Felice Orsini, the leader of...
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    1835–1888) was an English supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi, implicated in the Orsini affair of 1858. In later life he was called to the bar, and changed his...
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    Orsini was still executed, but Napoleon III began to explore the possibility of a joint operation with Piedmont against Austria. Cavour and Napoleon met...
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    of Spain. In 1619 Marcantonio II married Camilla Orsini, becoming heir to both the Borghese and Orsini families. His son Paolo (1624–1646) married Olimpia...
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    Gherardo, was forcibly disinherited by his brother-in-law Rinaldo Orsini. In 1447, Orsini erected a ravelin to better defend Piombino, in anticipation of...
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    he was still uncommitted. On 14 January 1858, Felice Orsini, an Italian, led an attempt on Napoleon III's life. The assassination attempt brought widespread...
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    (Monasterii 1913), p. 13, n. 10 and 13. Albert Huyskens, Kardinal Napoleon Orsini (Marburg 1902), but written before Finke's publication of the important...
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    16th-century palace that Giuliano da Sangallo the Younger had built for Francesco Orsini in order to erect his own from the ground up. Construction was suspended...
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    factions of Colonna and Orsini, two powerful Roman families, led by Giacomo Colonna and Matteo Orsini, respectively. The three Orsini cardinals were pro-French...
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    distinguishing himself by his defence of Felice Orsini, the perpetrator of the attack against the life of Napoleon III. In 1858 he was elected deputy for Paris...
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    (II) were to converge upon Aspern, while Prince Franz Seraph of Rosenberg-Orsini (IV) was to attack Essling. Prince Johann of Liechtenstein's Austrian reserve...
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    years of its existence, the lancers provided an escort for Napoleon III during the Orsini assassination attempt in Paris; in the field, they also followed...
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    Cephalonia Nicholas Orsini, and Epirus passed to the Italian Orsini family. Nicholas was in turn murdered in 1323 by his brother John II Orsini. In 1331 Arta...
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