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| Julie Chevallier, my great grandmother |
Julia Laure Emma Chevallier
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| Julia Laure Emma Chevallier |
Birth
Born the 14th of March at 6 in the evening, 1862 in Graffigny-Chemin, Bourmont Canton, Department of Haute-Marne, France. Father Paul Constant Chevallier, 40 years old, mother Anne Marie Richier, 36 years old.
1862
Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte), the nephew of Napoleon I ruled France. He was, by most accounts, a good ruler, modernizing the French economy, lowered tariffs, opened the Suez Canal, allied France with England, and liberalized laws for the working class and women. He was on the other hand a poor military leader, suffering defeat in France's Mexican intervention and in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, after which the Third Republic was proclaimed.
In 1862, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables was published. When all was said and done, Victor Hugo would write of Napoleon II as a mediocrity, "Napoleon the Small" (Napoléon le Petit) in contrast to his famous uncle.
Paul Constant Chevallier was a "propriétaire demeurant" landlord of property in Graffigny.
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