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See also:MORNY, See also:CHARLES AUGUSTE See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:JOSEPH , Duc DE (1811–1865), See also:French statesman, was the natural son of Hortense See also:Beauharnais (wife of Louis See also:Bonaparte, and See also:queen of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland) and Charles Joseph, See also:comte de Flahaut (q.v.), and therefore See also:half-See also:brother of See also:Napoleon III. He was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 21st of See also:October 1811, and his See also:birth was duly registered in a certificate which made him the legitimate son of Auguste See also:Jean Hyacinthe Demorny, described as a landowner of St. Domingo. M.
Demorny was in fact an officer in the Prussian See also:army and a native of St Domingo, though he owned no See also:land there or else-where. After a brilliant school and See also:college career he received a See also:commission in the army, and next See also:year entered the See also:staff college and became See also:lieutenant. The comte de Morny, as he was called by a polite fiction, served in See also:Algeria in 1834–35 as aide-de-See also:camp to See also:General Camille See also:Alphonse Trezel, whose See also:life he saved under the walls of See also:Constantine. When he returned to Paris in 1838 he secured a solid position in the business See also:world by the See also:establishment of a See also:great beetroot-See also:sugar See also:industry at Clermont in See also:Auvergne, and by See also:writing a pamphlet Sur la question See also:des sucres in 1838. In these and other lucrative speculations he was helped by the beautiful and wealthy wife of the Belgian See also:ambassador, Charles Joseph, comte Lehon, until there were few great commercial enterprises in Paris in which he had not an See also:interest. Although he sat as See also:deputy for Clermont-See also:Ferrand from 1842 onwards he took at first no important See also:part in party politics, but he was heard with respect on See also:industrial and See also:financial questions. He supported the See also:government of Louis Philippe, because revolution threatened his commercial interests, but before the See also:catastrophe of 1848, by which he was temporarily ruined, he meditated See also:conversion to the legitimist cause represented by the comte de See also:Chambord. His attitude was expressed by the mot with which he is said to have replied to a See also:lady who asked what he would do if the Chamber were " swept out." " Range myself on the See also:side of the See also:broom handle," was his See also:answer. Presently he was admitted to the intimate circle of Louis Napoleon, and he helped to engineer the coup d'etat of the 2nd of See also:December 1851 on the morrow of which he received the See also:ministry of the interior. After six months of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, during which he had shown commendable moderation and tact to his See also:political opponents, he resigned his See also:portfolio, ostensibly because he disapproved of the See also:confiscation of the See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans See also:property but really because Napoleon, influenced by Morny's rivals, resented his pretensions to a foremost See also:place in the government and his See also:desire to insist on his claims as a member of the Bonaparte See also:family. He now resumed his financial speculations, and when in 1854 he became See also:president of the See also:Corps Legislatif, a position which he filled with consummate dignity and tact for the See also:rest of his life, he used his See also:official See also:rank to assist his schemes.
Politics and high See also:finance with Morny went See also:hand in hand. In 1856 he was sent as See also:special See also:envoy to the See also:coronation of See also:Alexander II. of See also:Russia; he executed his See also:mission with prodigal splendour, and brought See also:home a wife, Princess Sophie Troubetzkoi, who by her connexions greatly strengthened his social position. In 1862 Morny, whose See also:power was at its culminating point, was created a See also:duke. It is said that he aspired to the See also:throne of See also:Mexico, and that the French expedition sent to place See also:Maximilian on the throne was prompted by Napoleon's desire to thwart this ambition. In any See also:case, in spite of occasional dissensions, Morny's See also:influence with the See also:emperor remained very great, and the liberal traditions which he had retained enabled him to serve the imperial cause by his influence with the leaders of the opposition, the most conspicuous of whom, Emile 011ivier, was detached from his colleagues by his efforts. But while he was laying the See also:foundations of the " Liberal See also:Empire " his See also:health, undermined by a ceaseless See also:round of political and financial business, of gaiety and dissipation, was giving way, and was further injured by See also:indulgence in See also:quack medicines. The emperor and the empress visited him just before his See also:death in Paris on the loth of See also:March 1865.
Morny's valuable collection of pictures was sold after his death. In spite of his undoubted wit and social gifts Morny failed to secure the distinction he desired as a dramatist, and none of his pieces which appeared under the See also:pseudonym of M. de St Remy—Sur la grande route ; See also:Monsieur Choufleury restera chez lui, and the Finesses du See also:marl among others—met with any considerable success on the See also:stage.
The figure of the duc de Morny is See also:familiar to the general reader in the duc de See also:Mora of Le Nabab of Alphonse See also:Daudet, who had been one of his secretaries. See F. Loliee, Le Duc de Morny et la societe du second empire (1909). Earlier accounts are by H. Castille, M. de Morny (1859), and See also:Arthur de la Gueronniere, Etudes et portraits
politiques (1856). See the literature dealing with Napoleon III., and the See also:article on Flahaut de la Billarderie; also F. Loliee, Le Duc de Morny, adapted by B. O'Donnell. A See also:volume, Extraits des memoires de Morny: Une Ambassade en Russie z856, was published in 1892.
End of Article: MORNY, CHARLES AUGUSTE LOUIS JOSEPH
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