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Victor Emmanuel I

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[ih-man-yoo-uhl] / ɪˈmæn yu əl /

noun

  1. 1759–1824, king of Sardinia 1802–21.


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About the same time Piedmont and Savoy were restored to Victor Emmanuel I, king of Sardinia.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.

When we went back to Rome one winter, after the accession of King Victor Emmanuel, I found myself for the first time in a room with royalties, the Prince and Princesse de Piémont.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

This monarch, Carlo Felice, Duke of Genoa and brother of Victor Emmanuel I, lost no time in repudiating the constitution, which was also opposed by the Russian and Austrian Governments.

From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of

This was not popular in Genoa which, hitherto a Republic, was now handed over to Victor Emmanuel I, a reactionary of the most extreme type.

From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of