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Artois and his family took up residence in Turin, the capital city of his father-in-law's (Carlo Emanuele IV) Kingdom of Sardinia
This misidentifies both the ruler and the family relationship. Charles Emmanuel IV was the Count of Artois's brother-in-law, not his father-in-law, and he did not become king of Sardinia until 1796; in 1789 the ruler was Victor Amadeus III.
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The article places this event in July 1789. At that time, the Count of Artois's wife was Maria Theresa of Savoy, whose father was Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, not Charles Emmanuel IV. Charles Emmanuel IV was Maria Theresa's brother, making him Artois's brother-in-law.
The dating is also wrong: Charles Emmanuel IV only began his reign on 16 October 1796. So in July 1789, Turin was part of the kingdom ruled by Victor Amadeus III, not by Charles Emmanuel IV.
In short, the sentence incorrectly identifies both who Artois's father-in-law was and who ruled Sardinia in 1789.
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- Charles X | Château de Versailles
In 1773 he married Maria Theresa of Savoy ... Maria Theresa of Savoy ... was the daughter of Victor Amedeus III, King of Sardinia, and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain.
- Charles Emmanuel IV - Wikipedia
Charles Emmanuel IV ... was King of Sardinia ... from 16 October 1796 until 1802... Two of Charles Emmanuel's sisters were married to younger brothers of king Louis XVI of France: Marie Joséphine to the count of Provence ... and Maria Theresa to the count of Artois.
The treaty gave France her 1792 borders, which extended east of the Rhine.
This misstates France's frontier under the 1814 treaty. The First Treaty of Paris restored France to its 1 January 1792 frontiers and required it to give up the left bank of the Rhine; the Rhine itself formed much of the boundary, with only limited special adjustments.
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The First Treaty of Paris did not restore a France whose 1792 frontier lay generally east of the Rhine.
A contemporary text of the treaty says France retained its territory "as they existed on the 1st of January, 1792" and then specifies that, after the Landau adjustment, the frontier reaches "the Rhine, which from thence shall continue to form the boundary of France and Germany." In other words, the Rhine itself was treated as the boundary for that stretch.
A standard reference summary likewise states that under the 1814 treaty France kept its 1 January 1792 boundaries but had to surrender "the left bank of Rhine" and other annexed territories. So the article's wording is inaccurate: the treaty did not restore a France whose 1792 borders broadly lay east of the Rhine. At most, the treaty allowed a limited exception around Landau beyond the main frontier, which is different from saying the 1792 borders themselves extended east of the Rhine.
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- Treaty of Paris, May 30, 1814 (First Peace of Paris)
The kingdom of France retains its limits entire, as they existed on the 1st of January, 1792... [After the Landau adjustment] ... to the Rhine, which from thence shall continue to form the boundary of France and Germany.
- Paris, First and Second Treaties of | Encyclopedia.com
France retained its boundaries of January 1, 1792... but had to surrender Belgium and the left bank of Rhine as well as territories annexed in Italy, Germany, Holland, and Switzerland.