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1. The new nobility of Napoleon consisted more often than not of men of humble origins, who became Marshalls and were adorend by the emperor with grandiose titles, as a rule named after battles in which they had merited their fame. For instance: this fellow was styled Duke of Elchingen and Prince of the Moskva. He led, in vain, bold cavalry charges at Waterloo in 1815. What was his name?
2. This marshall became Prince of Wagram (after the battle in 1809) and Duke of Neuchâtel. He had been an army commander serving under Napoleon in the Italian campaign. Like many of his colleagues, he offered in 1814 his services to the returning Bourbon monarch. When in the next year Napoleon returned from Elba, he took his own life.
3. This Duke of Ragusa had in 1814 the task of defending Paris against the Allied forces, who had invaded France. However, he chose to hand over the city without a fight, and this was probably crucial for the downfall of Napoleon in that year. And of course he joined King Louis XVIII, whom the Allies restored to the throne of France.
4. He was a general, but served Napoleon mainly as a diplomat, and became in 1813 Minister of Foreign Affairs. This Duke of Vicenza was one of the few who stayed loyal to the Emperor.
5. Napoleon had the habit of putting his brothers on the throne of European Kingdoms (some of which he created for the purpose). Two marshalls of his, however, who were not his brothers, also got a Kingdom each. One of them had married a sister of Napoleon, and became King of Naples (i.e. Southern Italy and Sicily). Who was he?
6. Another marshall of Napoleon also became King. And he was not Napoleon's brother-in-law, nor was his Kingdom in the sphere of influence of the Emperor. Far from it! And his family today is still reigning in this country.
7. It would not be true to say that Napoleon only elevated his brothers (and one brother-in-law) to the exalted status of King. Three principalities in the midst of Europe were elevated to the rank of Kingdom. Which one was the largest?
8. He was one of those of very humble origins. Also a comrade-in-arms of Napoleon since the campaigns of Italy and Egypt. Marshall he became, and prince of Montebello, for his conquest of Zaragoza in 1809. But in the same year he fell in the battle of Esslingen against the Austrians.
9. As a radical Jacobin, he voted in 1792 for the death of Louis XVI. Though Minister of Police under Napoleon, in 1814 he sided with the Bourbons and was accepted by them, but in 1815 he again became Napoleon's Minister of Police during the Hundred Days. Even more suprisingly, he managed to hold that post after the second return of Louis XVIII, though only for a few months.
10. In contrast to the other fellows here mentioned, he had his origins in the highest French nobility. He was Bishop of Autun and in 1792 ambassador of France to England. Did wisely not return during the Terror, spent some years in America, then returned to France, became Minister of Foreign under the Directorate, under Napoleon, and in 1814 under Louis XVIII. After the revolution of 1830 again ambassador in London.
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