Guillaume du Tillot
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Léon Guillaume Tillot was a French politician infused with liberal ideals of the Enlightenment, who from 1759 was the minister of the Duchy of Parma under Philip, Duke of Parma and his wife Princess L
Guillaume du Tillot by Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari
Ferdinand I of Parma
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Ferdinand I was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla from his father's death on 18 July 1765 until he ceded the duchy to France by the Treaty of Aranjuez on 20 March 1801. He was a member of the Hous
Guillaume du Tillot
…directed the first manufactory of military cloth in Parma, in Borgo San Donnino, now Fidenza. With the accession to the Duchy of the somewhat simple Ferdinand, Duke of Parma (1751–1802) and his Habsburg Duchess, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, an alliance that had been organised by her mother, Maria Theresa, Tillot was…
Portrait by Johan Zoffany, 1779
Louise-Élisabeth and her son Ferdinand (portrait by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1788)
A portrait of Ferdinand (c. 1765–69). The portrait is formally attributed to Giuseppe Baldrighi, however, it was painted by Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari