It is believed to have been sent, chapter by chapter, by Voltaire to the Duke and Duchess La Vallière in the autumn of 1758.

Maria (2 July 1363 25 May 1401) was Queen of Sicily and Duchess of Athens and Neopatria from 1377 until her death.

Ranuccio became reigning Duke of Parma in 1592.

Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (born 13 May 1979).

He assumed the title of Duke of Normandy in the summer of 1144.

On 31 December 1660, following his brother's restoration, James was created Duke of Albany in Scotland, to go along with his English title, Duke of York.

The last king of the Lombards, Desiderius, had also been duke of Brescia.

Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise (Paris, 4 April 1614 2 June 1664, Paris) was the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse.

Duke Qing, the last ruler of Lu, became a commoner.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Andrew Albert Christian Edward, born 19 February 1960), is the second son and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Duke of Normandy, married Sybil of Conversano, daughter of Geoffrey of Conversano.

William II (1095 July 1127) was the Duke of Apulia and Calabria from 1111 to 1127.

Margarete (died 1377), married in 1359, Landshut, to Duke Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria.

She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

Duque de Caxias (, Duke of Caxias ) is a city in southeast Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, bordered by Rio de Janeiro (city) to the south.

The new stand was officially opened by the Duke of Kent on 10 March 1973.

In Spring 1601 they set for Munich, where they met with William II, the former Duke of Bavaria.

Charles James Fox, however, refused to serve under Shelburne, and demanded the appointment of the Duke of Portland.

Edward, Second Duke of York assisted the climb of foxes as more prestigious quarries in his The Master of Game .

She was one of the ten children of Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.

On 30 October 1137, the last Duke of Naples died in the king's service at the Battle of Rignano.

Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (born Olof Daniel Westling on 15 September 1973), is the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446 12 10 1481) was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Le Maine, Count of Maine, who was the youngest son of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.

On March 21 the Grand Duke of Tuscany also declared his entrance in the war against Austria, with a contingent of 6,700 men.

Radbod (or Redbad) (died 719) was the king (or duke) of Frisia from c. 680 until his death.

Aistulf (died 756) was the Duke of Friuli from 744, King of Lombards from 749, and Duke of Spoleto from 751.

John tried without success until the end of his life to legitimise Jorge, Duke of Coimbra, his illegitimate son.

The guests included King Charles II, Queen Catherine, and the Duke and Duchess of York.

At the death of his elder brother, Joseph became Prince of Brazil as the heir apparent of the king, and Duke of Braganza.

The Duke of Lerma moved the court to Valladolid in 1600 six years later it returned to Madrid.

Otto, Duke of Brunswick Grubenhagen (1320 1 December 1398) was the fourth and last husband of Joanna I of Naples.

The leader of the Republic was Henry II of Lorraine, duke of Guise, descendant of the former king of Naples Rene I of Anjou.

One of his duties was to continue negotiations for a marriage between Elizabeth and Charles IX's younger brother Henry, Duke of Anjou.

The Duke of Newcastle alone is said to have controlled seven such boroughs, each with two representatives.

The conflict climaxed with the assassination of the Duke of Orléans in 1407 on the orders of the Duke of Burgundy.

John II of Anjou (Nancy, August 2, 1424 December 16, 1470, Barcelona) was Duke of Lorraine from 1453 to his death.

According to historic sources, William VIII, the father of William IX, brought to Poitiers hundreds of Muslim prisoners.

The embassy failed to meet the Doge of Venice, as he declined an interview on the ground that he was meeting an ambassador from the Ottoman Empire.

The Duke of Sully (1559 1641) conceived of a Christian European republic, which the Turks could join only if they converted to Christianity.

The leader of the French contingent, the Duke of Burgundy, however, was adamant that a direct attack on Jerusalem should be made.

Pier Luigi Farnese (19 November 1503 10 September 1547) was the first Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro, from 1545 to 1547.

It was on one of Honoré III's rare visits to the palace in 1767 that illness forced Edward, Duke of York, to land at Monaco.

On 25 January, Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, helped lift her into the coffin.

Two years later, Richard of York returned to England from his new post as Lieutenant of Ireland and marched on London, demanding Somerset's removal and reform of the government.

Robert the Magnificent () (22 June 1000 1 3 July 1035), was the Duke of Normandy from 1027 until his death.