... VonHelfert's _Marie Louise, Empress of the French_, throws a great deal of light on the early years of the mother of the King of Rome. In the archives of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs thanks to the ... met in the course of the day the King of Würtemberg and the Grand Duke of Baden, and spent the night at Würzburg, the sovereign of which was the former Grand Duke of Tuscany, the brother of the ... II. The Emperor Francis, father of the Empress Marie Louise, was himself the son of Leopold II.; his wife was Princess Marie Thérèse of Naples, daughter of Queen Marie Caroline and aunt of the...