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Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica

Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica

Theodore Von Neuhoff, King of Corsica

Julia Gasper

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2012
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781611494402

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“A visionary and a madman” was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica.

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