USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Marie Louise, the second wife of Napoleon I, was the great-niece of Queen Marie Antoinette . The daughter of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, her upbringing was marked by a hatred of Revolutionary France and then of Bonaparte, as Austria was repeatedly humiliated by defeat and stripped of its territories.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marie Louise married morganatically twice after Napoleon’s death in 1821. Her second husband was Count Adam Albert von Neipperg (married 1821), an equerry she met in 1814. She and Neipperg had three children. After Neipperg’s death in 1829, she married Count Charles-René de Bombelles, her chamberlain, in 1834.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marie-Louise was less than happy with the arrangement, at least at first, stating “Just to see the man would be the worst form of torture.” However, she seemed to warm up to Napoleon over time. After her wedding, she wrote to her father “He loves me very much. I respond to his love sincerely.

Detailed explanation-4: -In September 1821, following Napoleon’s death that May, Marie-Louise married Adam Adalbert, count von Neipperg, having already borne him two children.