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1770 |
25 February |
Birth of Lucie-Henriette Dillon in the rue du Bac, Paris |
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1774 |
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ascend the throne of France |
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1778 |
5 April |
Departure of Lucie’s father, Arthur Dillon, for the American War of Independence |
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1782 |
8 September |
Death of Lucie’s mother, Thérèse-Lucy Dillon |
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1787 |
22 May |
Lucie marries Frédéric de Gouvernet and is presented at court |
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1789 |
5 May |
Estates General meet in Versailles |
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14 July |
Fall of the Bastille |
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1790 |
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M. de la Tour du Pin made Minister for War |
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19 May |
Birth of Humbert |
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1791 |
20 June |
Flight of royal family to Varennes |
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October |
Lucie and Frédéric (and Humbert) leave for Holland where he is now ambassador |
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1792 |
March |
Frédéric dismissed |
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20 April |
France declares war on Austria |
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August |
Prussian and Austrian troops invade France |
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10 August |
The storming of the Tuileries and the massacre of the Swiss Guard |
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22 September |
French Republic proclaimed |
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1793 |
January |
Lucie returns to Paris |
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21 January |
Louis XVI guillotined |
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March |
Lucie and Frédéric go to Le Bouilh, Bordeaux |
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September |
Birth of Séraphine |
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October |
Marie Antoinette guillotined |
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1794 |
January |
Terror reaches its peak in Bordeaux |
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March |
Lucie, Frédéric and the children leave for America |
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13 April |
Arthur Dillon is guillotined |
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28 April |
Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin is guillotined |
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June |
Lucie and Frédéric buy a farm near Albany |
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1795 |
September |
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1796 |
6 May |
Lucie, Frédéric and Humbert return to Bordeaux via Spain |
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1 November |
Birth of Charlotte |
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2 November |
Directoire set up; it would last until November 1799 |
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1797 |
July |
Lucie, Frédéric, Humbert and Charlotte go to Paris |
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4 September |
Coup d’état of 18 fructidor |
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November |
Lucie, Frédéric and the children flee to England |
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1798 |
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Birth of Edward and, three months later, his death |
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1799 |
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Lucie, Frédéric, Humbert and Charlotte return to Paris via Holland |
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November |
Consulat set up, with Napoleon as First Consul |
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1800 |
13 February |
Lucie gives birth to Cécile |
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September |
Family goes to settle at Le Bouilh |
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1802 |
25 March |
Treaty of Amiens signed with Britain |
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2 August |
Napoleon appointed First Consul for Life |
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1804 |
28 May |
Napoleon becomes Emperor |
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1805–6 |
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Series of military victories by Napoleon across Europe |
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1806 |
18 October |
Birth of Aymar |
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1808 |
12 May |
Frédéric appointed Prefect of the Dyle and family moves to Brussels |
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1810 |
1–2 April |
Having divorced Josephine, Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria |
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End of April |
Lucie attends on Marie-Louise in Brussels |
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1813 |
May |
Marriage of Charlotte to Auguste de Liederkerke Frédéric dismissed from Brussels but appointed Prefect of Amiens. Family moves to Amiens. |
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1812 |
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Disastrous Russian campaign |
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1814 |
1 January |
The Allies invade France |
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20 April |
Napoleon sails for Elba |
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3 May |
Louis XVIII arrives in Paris |
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1 November |
Frédéric sent to represent France at Congress of Vienna |
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Lucie settles in Paris |
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1815 |
20 March |
Napoleon returns to Paris and Louis XVIII flees to Ghent |
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Lucie returns to Brussels |
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18 June |
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo and sent to be held on St Helena; in his entourage are Lucie’s half-sister Fanny and her husband |
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Frédéric returns as Ambassador to Holland |
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1816 |
28 January |
Death of Humbert, aged 25, in a duel |
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1817 |
20 March |
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1820 |
1 January |
Lucie decides to write her memoirs |
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Frédéric appointed Ambassador to Turin |
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1822 |
1 September |
Death of Charlotte, at 25, from tuberculosis. Her 2-year-old daughter, Cécile, comes to live with Lucie |
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1824 |
16 September |
Death of Louis XVIII; his brother ascends throne as Charles X |
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1830 |
February |
Lucie and Frédéric visit Paris for the first time in 10 years |
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2 August |
Abdication of Charles X; Louis-Philippe becomes King |
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Frédéric resigns and moves back to Le Bouilh |
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1832 |
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Aymar implicated in failed coup by the Duchesse de Berri |
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December |
Frédéric is sent to prison in the Fort du Hâ |
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1833 |
20 March |
Frédéric is released and they move to Italy |
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1836 |
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Félicie lends them her house in Lausanne |
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1837 |
26 February |
Death of Frédéric |
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1842 |
November |
Lucie and Aymar move first to Lucca and then to Pisa |
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1848 |
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Year of revolution in Europe |
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1852 |
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Louis-Napoleon adopts the title of Napoleon III |
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1853 |
2 April |
Death of Lucie in Pisa at the age of 83 |