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French historic military leader Napoleon Bonaparte was trending on Google searches worldwide after the wedding of his heir Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte.

Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte, 33, is the great-great-great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. He married the great-granddaughter of Austria’s last emperor, Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinnerberg.

The former Imperial House of France and the House of Hapsburg have united again after more than 200 years in a lavish ceremony in Paris. Jean-Christophe and Olympia tied the knot at Les Invalides in Paris, where Napoleon’s body was returned from St. Helena following his political exile from France. In 1810, Napoleon married Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria. The union was designed to secure an ally in his war against Britain and Russia and stop the conflict between the two countries.

The London-based heir to Napoleon said that his relationship with the countess is a love match. “It’s a story of love rather than a nod to history. When I met Olympia, I plunged into her eyes and not into her family tree. Afterward, we were able to smile at this historical coincidence,” the Daily Mail reported.

The couple met when Olympia spent a semester abroad in Paris while studying for her political science degree at Yale.

Their marriage, as Jean-Christophe told French newspaper Le Figaro, would be “the fruit of European reconciliation and construction, which I believe in enormously.” exhibition explores the artist’s identity as an Iraqi, as well as themes of cultural alienation and elusive experiences.

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