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600:in Tervuren
557:in Brussels
518:He had the
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311: 1720
168:4 July 1780
114:Predecessor
75:Predecessor
1393:Categories
1108:References
294:Early life
144:1712-12-12
1271:Lunéville
413:in 1746.
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382:in 1761.
268:Lunéville
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124:Successor
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1355:1761–80
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606:Ancestry
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361:Louis XV
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