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This reminded me of the recent grandduke Ferdinand interview in The Second Life Herald.
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On February 15, the people rose in Tuscany, and compelled their grandduke to proclaim a constitution.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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In Baden, the venerable grandduke, Louis, expired in 1830, and was succeeded by Leopold, a descendant of the collateral branch of the counts of Hochberg.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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Oldenburg, who had assumed the title of grandduke, proclaimed a constitution, but shortly afterward withdrew his promise and strictly forbade his subjects to annoy him by recalling it to his remembrance.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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The grandduke was compelled to repeal the law for the press, the Freiburg university was for some time closed, Professors Rotteck and Welcker were suspended, and their newspaper, the "Freisinnige" or liberal, was suppressed in 1832.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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Baden was rewarded with the Breisgau, the Ortenau, Constance, and the title of grandduke.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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The Cisalpine republic was enlarged by the possessions of the grandduke of Tuscany and of the duke of
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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The new grandduke, who was surnamed "the citizen's friend," behaved with extreme liberality and consequently went hand in hand with the first chamber, of which Wessenberg and
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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Murat, formerly a common horse-soldier, now his best general of cavalry, grandduke of Berg; his first adjutant, Berthier, prince of
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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The government of Charles von Dalberg, the prince primate and grandduke of Frankfort, was one of the most despicable of those composing the Rhenish confederation.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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