Florestan Ier of Monaco

See also: Florestan Ier

Florestan Grimaldi was born the October 10th 1785 in Paris and is deceased the June 20th 1856. It was sovereign Prince of Monaco of the October 2nd 1841 with its death. It was the second wire of Prince Honore IV. He reaches the throne with the death of his brother Honore V.

Marriage and children

He married an young girl of the Champagne middle-class, Caroline Gibert against the opinion of his parents. They had two children:

  • the prince Charles III (1818-1889)
  • the princess Florestine (1833-1897).

Titulature

Its Sérénissime Highness the count Grimaldi of Monaco (thus titrated because of a nonequal marriage)

Its Highness Sérénissime Florestan Ier, sovereign prince of Monaco

An prince-actor

Because of being the junior, Florestan forever prepared to assume the role of Prince de Monaco. He was actor with the theater of Ambiguous-Comic and lived comfortably in Paris, in the Hôtel of Créqui which had bought and restored with its wife. However, it had to stop its career to inherit the throne Monegasque to dead of its brother Honore V of Monaco. During its reign, the real capacity resided between the hands of his wife the princess Caroline. During some time, it succeeds in restoring finances of the Grimaldi then to rather reduce the difficult economic situation born of the new position of Monaco under protectorate of the Royaume of Sardinia than of the France. The princely couple also tried to answer the local requests for more Démocratie. He proposed two constitutions with the population, but they were rejected, particularly by the inhabitants of Menton. When they noted that their efforts were dedicated to the failure, Florestan and Caroline gave up the capacity with their son Charles (Prince Charles III).

It was however too little, too late. Ecouragées by the events of 1848, the towns of Chin and Roquebrune, revolted, declared free cities . They thought of being attached to the Sardinia but that did not occur and the cities remained in an unspecified political state until they are finally yielded to France by Charles III in 1861 after the annexation of Nice, realizing financial equalizations and the installation of an imperial road and the prolongation of the railway of Nice to Monaco.

At the time of the death of Florestan, and this in spite of its good intentions, Monaco was a country weakened with little prospect for financial prosperity. The task to rectify this situation remained with its heir.

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