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* d ' Ornano, Antoine ' Marie Walewska, " l ' ėpouse polonaise de Napolėon "', Paris 1937.
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In 1977, Chirac stood as a candidate against Michel d ' Ornano, a close friend of the president, and he won.
In 1943, Colonel ( later General ) Philippe Leclerc and Lieutenant-Colonel Camille d ' Ornano led a column of 16, 500 colonial troops from Chad to attack Italian forces in southern Libya and to occupy Kufra in the Fezzan region.
In her later years she married count Philippe Antoine d ' Ornano, an influential Napoleonic officer.
In 1816 Maria married her longtime admirer and lover, Philippe Antoine d ' Ornano, count d ' Ornano.
They settled in Liege, as d ' Ornano did not want to return to Paris due to his pro-Napoleonic allegiances.
* Her third son, Rudolph d ' Ornano, was also an influential figure in the French society ; his descendants created the well known fragrance and cosmetics brand Sisley.
The first scholar to write a complete account of her life was a French biographer Frederic Masson, who was allowed by d ' Ornano family to use her memoirs.
In the 1930s her adventures were once again described by her descendant, Antoine Philippe Rodolphe, 4th count d ' Ornano in a book entitled ' Marie Walewska, " l ' ėpouse polonaise de Napolėon "'.
It was a belletristic biography that until mid-20th century was considered as a key source on Walewska, as Antoine d ' Ornano claimed that it was based on never published documents remaining in the archives of La Branchoire, the family castle.
These allegations immediately spurred controversy among Polish historians, who noticed that both, the described events and the dates quoted by d ' Ornano seemed unlikely.
Before publishing the book, he printed certain extracts from it in Elle, a popular woman's magazine, which resulted in a famous lawsuit from count d ' Ornano and his descendants.
Antoine d ' Ornano sued him for illegally appropriating contents taken from " Marie Walewska, " l ' ėpouse polonaise de Napolėon "", and when Antoine died, his descendants claimed that the aforementioned extracts were not historical source materials, as Savant claimed, but merely an invention of the author.
The d ' Ornano family never allowed any historian to come into contact with the alleged Walewska archives.
d and Antoine
Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.
However in French it is usually referred to as Chateau d ' Abbadie or Domaine d ' Abbadia, and locally it is not unusual for it to be called le Chateau d ' Antoine d ' Abbadie.
Inspired by the esoteric work La langue hebraïque restituée by Antoine Fabre d ' Olivet, he began a semantic and grammatical analysis of Biblical Hebrew.
d and Marie
* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )
* 1799 – The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross ( d. 1873 )
Marie Antoinette, the King's younger brother the Comte d ' Artois, and other conservative members of the King's privy council urged him to dismiss Necker as financial advisor.
* 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor and merchant, invented the Jacquard loom ( d. 1834 )
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