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Maximilian

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Max·i·mil·ian  (mks-mlyn) 1832-1867.
Austrian archduke and emperor of Mexico (1864-1867). Appointed emperor by the French, who had recently captured Mexico, he lacked popular support and was captured and executed by Mexican republicans when France withdrew from the country under American pressure.
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Besides, Maximilian Morrel, though hardly two and twenty, had great influence over his father.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
[*] Maximilian I, born in 1459, died 1519, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Then arrived, two by two, with a gravity which made a contrast in the midst of the frisky ecclesiastical escort of Charles de Bourbon, the eight and forty ambassadors of Maximilian of Austria, having at their head the reverend Father in God, Jehan, Abbot of Saint-Bertin, Chancellor of the Golden Fleece, and Jacques de Goy, Sieur Dauby, Grand Bailiff of Ghent.
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