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Victor Emmanuel I

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Victor Emmanuel I (1759–1824)

King of Sardinia-Piedmont, 1802–21. After a long struggle to liberate his possessions from French control, he headed an extremely reactionary regime that suppressed all liberal calls for reform. He was finally forced to abdicate in favour of his brother, Charles Felix, following a popular uprising.

Until 1814, Victor Emmanuel I lived in Cagliari, Sardinia, from where he commanded the fight against Napoleonic forces that had occupied all his mainland territories. He regained these at the fall of Napoleon's empire: the first Peace of Paris (1814) restored to him Piedmont, Savoy, and Nice, while the second (1815) granted him Genoa and the Ligurian region.



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