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Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte



Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules (1763–1844), French general who founded Sweden's present royal dynasty. One of Napoleon's marshals (1804), he was elected Swedish crown prince in 1810. He fought Napoleon at Leipzig (1813) and ruled Sweden and Norway as Charles XIV (1818–44).



See also: Sweden.

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