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Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury
Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury (18 March 1802, Paris – 18 October 1887, Paris) was a French historian and literary critic.
Biography.
Préfet des études at the collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris and preceptor of Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale, from 1827 to 1839, he then became Henri's special secretary. He contributed to the "Journal des Débats". He was elected to the Académie française in 1866.
In 1830 he published "Documents historiques sur
in a letter to his teacher Alfred-Auguste de Cuvillier-Fleury as "not nice, but nothing unpleasant about herself". Cuvillier-Fleury agreed with him, adding that she also had an "exquisite appearance" ("[…] "n'est pas jolie, mais c'est une miniature exquise.""). Henry agreed with the marriage only after intense pressure from his parents after they rejected other candidates and finally opted for the small and graceful Maria Carolina to forestall any other marriage proposals to her from other European