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Napoleon visits Frederick's (first) sarcophagus — His will specified he should be buried without pomp next to his greyhounds. Nephew and successor Frederick William II instead ordered the body to be entombed next to his father in the Potsdam Garrison Church
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Napoleon visits Frederick's (first) sarcophagus His will specified he should be buried without pomp next to his greyhounds. Nephew and successor Frederick William II instead ordered the body to be entombed next to his father in the Potsdam Garrison Church
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Baptism of Frederick, 1712
Photo Credit: By Unknown - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 40 (1870), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18102188
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Frederick the Great
Photo Credit: By Anton Graff - https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/friedrich-der-gro%C3%9Fe/DAEsXb1rkqpq7w, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63536639
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Madame de Ventadour with infant Louis XV — The infant Louis with his governess, grandfather, great-grandfather and father, and the busts of Henry IV and Louis XIII in the background. Madame de Ventadour holds her charge's reins. The portrait, painted for her, commemorates her part in saving the dynasty.
Photo Credit: By Formerly attributed to Nicolas de Largillière - https://www.altesses.eu/max.php?image=51eade3cd3, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=153698
Madame de Ventadour with infant Louis XV The infant Louis with his governess, grandfather, great-grandfather and father, and the busts of Henry IV and Louis XIII in the background. Madame de Ventadour holds her charge's reins. The portrait, painted for her, commemorates her part in saving the dynasty.
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Marie Leszczinska
Photo Credit: By Charles-André van Loo - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13397713
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Coronation of Louis XV — Reims Cathedral, 1722
Photo Credit: By Pierre Subleyras - musée des Augustins, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=995320
Coronation of Louis XV Reims Cathedral, 1722
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Louis XV
Photo Credit: By Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=784295
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Comte de Saint Germain
Photo Credit: By Nicolas Thomas -Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=677215
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Bertrada of Laon — Statue by Eugène Oudiné, one of the twenty Reines de France et Femmes illustres in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
Photo Credit: By User:Jastrow - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3612026
Bertrada of Laon Statue by Eugène Oudiné, one of the twenty Reines de France et Femmes illustres in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
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Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon — Queen of the Franks. 19th century's cast of a statue of the 13th century. Plaster. Galerie de Pierre, northern wing, Château de Versailles.
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Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon Queen of the Franks. 19th century's cast of a statue of the 13th century. Plaster. Galerie de Pierre, northern wing, Château de Versailles.
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Bertrada of Laon — cropped
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