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Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

The tunnels are lined with carefully arranged skulls and bones, with plaques bearing inscriptions about life and death.

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He added that the French Emperor Napoleon III requested from Said Pasha, the wali of Egypt, to supply him with a brigade of Sudanese soldiers (Egypt and Sudan were at the time one country ruled by ...

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Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...

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The year was 1861 and the ruler dreaming of world domination was Emperor Napoleon III of France. Taking advantage of the American Civil War, he planned to create a monarchy in Mexico that would become ...