He was a younger brother of Louis IX of France and an older brother of Charles I of Sicily.

In 1252, on the death of his mother, Blanche of Castile, Alphonse was joint regent with Charles of Anjou until the return of Louis IX.

After Carloman was incapacitated by a stroke in 879, Louis the Younger inherited Bavaria, Charles the Fat was given the Kingdom of Italy and Arnulf was confirmed in Carinthia by an agreement with Carloman.

Nonetheless Charles is a member of a pantheon of famous Napoleonic figures that includes the Emperor himself, Louis Nicolas Davout, Andre Massena, Karl von Schwarzenberg, Mikhail Kutuzov, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and the aforementioned Duke of Wellington.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

#* Charles Louis Napoléon ( III ) Bonaparte ( 1808 – 1873 ) Emperor, married Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

Johnson, a Cincinnati-based reporter, had been recommended by his friend Charles Comiskey, former major league star with the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s, who was then managing the Cincinnati Reds.

** Charles Louis ( 1803 – 1807 )

Many other architects have left their impression on the Chicago skyline such as Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Charles B. Atwood, John Root, and Helmut Jahn.

Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

Dartmouth alumni serving as CEOs or company presidents include Charles Alfred Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, Sandy Alderson ( San Diego Padres ), John Donahoe ( eBay ), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. ( IBM ), Charles E. Haldeman ( Putnam Investments ), Donald J.

On his deathbed Charles II had bequeathed the entire Spanish inheritance to Louis XIV's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou.

Charles X had succeeded Louis XVIII in 1824, but in 1827 his party suffered a major electoral setback and by 1830 the opposition liberal party became the majority.

Louis, son of Charles the Simple and Edmund's half-sister Eadgifu, had resided at the West-Saxon court for some time until 936, when he returned to be crowned King of France.

* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.

After the accession of King Louis II, George was aided in his reforming efforts by Queen Maria, a sister of Charles V and Ferdinand I, who was favorably inclined toward the new doctrine.

After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

The trial and execution of Charles by his own subjects shocked the rest of Europe ( the king argued to the end that only God could judge him ) and was a precursor of sorts to the beheading of Louis XVI 145 years later.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

King Louis XI and later his allies, the Old Swiss Confederacy, faced Charles the Bold during the Burgundian Wars ( 1474 – 1477 ).

The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.

* October 30 – Henry II, Duke of Montmorency, is executed for his participation in the rebellion of Gaston, Duke of Orléans against the French king Louis XIII.

It includes: Henrietta Maria of France ( died 1669 ), exiled Queen of England ; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans ; his first wife Henrietta Anne Stuart | Princess Henriette ( died 1670 ); the couples first daughter Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( later Queen of Spain ); Anne of Austria ( died 1666 ); the Orléans daughters of Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston de France ; Louis XIV ; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ) | Marie-Thérèse de France, called Madame Royale ( died 1672 ) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d ' Anjou ( d1671 ).

After the fall of Louis Napoleon following the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War barricades went up in the streets of Marseille ( 23 March 1871 ) and the Communards, led by Gaston Cremieux and following the lead of the Paris Commune, took control of the city.

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

Marie's conduct was such that she forced her son to banish her from France, where she was encouraging her other son, Gaston, to rebel ; and the victory Richelieu at last won over her ( on the Day of the Dupes ) was due solely to the discovery the cardinal made, and imparted to Louis XIII, of secret documents relating to the death of Henry IV.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the huge château was all but abandoned when the property passed into the hands of Gaston d ' Orleans, the brother of the Bourbon King Louis XIII.

From 1617 to 1619 Marie de ' Medici, wife of King Henri IV, exiled from the court, lived at the château, which was soon afterwards given by King Louis XIII to his brother Gaston, Duke of Orléans, who lived there till his death in 1660.

It became an unofficial club that included artists ( Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Amedeo Modigliani, Jean-Paul Laurens, Maurice Utrillo, Jacques Lipchitz, María Blanchard, Jean Metzinger and Louis Marcoussis ); writers ( Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Coquiot, Cremnitz ( Maurice Chevrier ), Paul Fort, André Warnod, Raymond Radiguet, Gertrude Stein ); actors ( Charles Dullin, Harry Baur, Gaston Modot ); and art dealers ( Ambroise Vollard, Clovis Sagot, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Berthe Weill ).

He entered the church and made his way until he was appointed tutor and then became the friend and adviser of Gaston d ' Orléans, brother of Louis XIII.

Montcalm and his staff, Major-General François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, Colonel Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Sennezergue, distributed some 12, 000 troops in a nine-kilometre long collection of fortified redoubts and batteries from the Saint-Charles River to the Montmorency Falls, along the shallows of the river in areas that had previously been targeted by British attempts to land.

Earlier, he declined Louis Jourdan's role as Gaston in MGM's Gigi ( 1958 ).

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 6 May 186815 April 1927 ) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born in Paris in 1868.

Marie, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Montpensier, brought the duchy to her husband Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII, whom she married in 1626, and their daughter and heiress, known as La Grande Mademoiselle was duchess of Montpensier.

Louis married Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, niece of Cardinal Richelieu at the Palais Royal in Paris February 1641 in the presence of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria and Gaston d ' Orléans.

In 1643, upon the death of Louis XIII, Gaston became Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, and fought against Spain on the northern frontiers of France.

But in November of that year, Henri II, Duke of Montmorency, on his way to the scaffold, betrayed Gaston, his former co-conspirator, and Louis XIII and Richelieu learned of the elopement.

To differentiate the older Monsieur from the younger, Gaston, the uncle, was called Le Grand Monsieur and Philippe, his nephew and brother of the new king Louis XIV, was called Le Petit Monsieur.

President Gaston Doumergue called on Louis Barthou to form a government, but Barthou failed.

The daughter of Gaston d ' Orleans and the niece of Louis XIII, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, held a sort of court in the cabaret, and the " Garden Neuf " of Henry IV ( the present day Carousel ) became known as the Parterre de Mademoiselle.

Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".

* Louis Chevrolet ( 1878 – 1941 ), race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, co-founder of the Frontenac Motor Corporation with brothers Gaston and Arthur.