Napoléon Joseph Ney

Portrait of général prince de La Moskowa (1857) by Gustave Le Gray

Napoléon Joseph Ney, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa, (1803–1857) was a French politician.

Ney was the elder son of Michel Ney. Born in Paris in 1803, his godfather was Napoléon. He married in 1828 the daughter of the banker Pierre Laffite. In November 1831 he was created a peer of France in a batch of thirty-six lifetime peers.

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