Marie Louise as Empress of the French
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The wedding took place by proxy in Vienna, the role of the bridegroom being taken by one of Napoleon’s brothers. Afterwards Marie Louise travelled to France to join her new husband. On 16 March 1809 the bride was officially handed over to the French delegation at the frontier of the Habsburg Empire, in Sankt Peter am Hart near Braunau am Inn. The ceremony took place in a
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Marie Louise as Empress of the French
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Jean Baptiste Isabey: Marie Louise as Empress of the French, gouache, 1810
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