DYNASTY a bridge extended between ship and shore . Nonetheless , the two were married and in 1758 the future Prince Honoré IV was born followed by Prince Joseph some years later . In 1770 , though , Honoré III and Princess Maria Caterina divorced , and she later married the Prince de Condé in 1798 .
In 1767 the British Duke of York was sailing from Marseilles to Genoa when he was suddenly taken ill and had to put in at Monaco . Prince Honoré III quickly offered all the help he could and put his palace at the disposal of the Prince who died after 11 days in what has forever after been known as the York Room of the Princely Palace .
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In the meantime Prince Honoré III did what he could to guide his little principality along , improving trade and the economy which was heavily dependent on growing citrus fruits such as lemons in those days . His reign also saw the establishment of the first printing press in Monaco and the first newspaper the ‘ Courrier de Monaco ’. Prince Honoré III did take the initiative in pushing for some reforms , the most major of which was the repeal of the law that the Sovereign Prince would receive the inheritance of anyone who died on his property . On August 18 , 1770 Honoré saw the practice , which he viewed as barbaric , abolished .
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION , ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT
Maria Caterina di Brignole-Sale , Princess of Monaco by an Unknown painter
As France slipped increasingly rapidly towards revolution things in Monaco remained calm and peaceful until the fateful day of July 14 , 1789 ; the date of the storming of the Bastille . The shock spread to Monaco where crowds embraced the Declaration of the Rights of Man , influenced by the rise of republicanism in France as well as some newly introduced nostalgia for the Genoese Republic . Honoré III was concerned with the loss of his noble titles in France at the hands of the French National Constituent Assembly which was intent on abolishing all aristocratic privileges and soon he rushed to Paris to try to defend his titles there before the Constituent Assembly .
In 1757 Honoré III married Maria Caterina di Brignole- Sale who was descended from the Doges of Genoa and called ‘ the most beautiful woman in France ’.
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The Family of the Duke of Valentinois ( circa 1730 ) by Pierre Gobert . The future Prince Honoré II is the first on the left .
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