Napoléon Joseph Ney
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Portrait of général prince de La Moskowa (1857) by Gustave Le Gray
Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa, (1803–1857) was a French politician.
Ney was the elder son of Michel Ney. Born in Paris in 1803, his godfather was Emperor Napoléon I. He married in 1828 the daughter of the banker . In November 1831 he was created a peer of France in a batch of thirty-six lifetime peers.
Sources[]
- Souvenirs et récits par le Prince de la Moskowa (in French)
- Arrêt Prince Napoléon (in French)
- Blog of the Ney family (in French)
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- 1803 births
- 1857 deaths
- 19th-century French people
- Princes de la Moskowa
- Politicians from Paris
- Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy
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