• Thumbnail for Château de la Motte
    Château de la Motte is a chateau located in the commune of Joué-du-Plain (Orne) in Normandy, France. The chateau began as a Viking motte-and-bailey castle...
    33 KB (4,937 words) - 16:24, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte
    Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də la mɔt]) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western...
    2 KB (86 words) - 13:39, 21 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Motte-and-bailey castle
    De Meulemeester, Johnny. (1982) "Mottes Castrales du Comté de Flandres: État de la question d'apr les fouilles récent," Château Gaillard: études de castellologie...
    44 KB (5,992 words) - 07:56, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of La Fayette
    de Chambrun Château de Chavaniac Château de la Grange-Bléneaug Château-Dauphin Château de Saint Romain Château de Chouvigny Château de Tournoël Saint...
    35 KB (1,882 words) - 04:40, 6 January 2024
  • Billy Petherick) Château de La Fare (Philip & Janet Barnard-Brown) Château de la Motte-Husson (Dick Strawbridge & Angel Adoree) Château de La Ruche (Tim &...
    55 KB (1,600 words) - 10:36, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Madame de Pompadour
    actual château for the comtesse du Cayla. After the sale of her château de Crécy [fr], unexpectedly, the marquise de Pompadour did not purchase Saint-Ouen...
    41 KB (4,982 words) - 19:40, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for François-Jean de la Barre
    François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre (12 September 1745 – 1 July 1766) was a young French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt...
    25 KB (3,308 words) - 18:43, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardinal Richelieu
    Officer Cadets from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. A wing of the Louvre Museum, Paris, France Rue de Richelieu, a Parisian street named in the cardinal's...
    63 KB (6,975 words) - 18:49, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Motte-Tilly
    La Motte-Tilly is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The Château de La Motte-Tilly is situated in the commune. Communes of the...
    2 KB (78 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2021
  •  • Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte Orne (61) Carrouges  • Domfront  • Ducs d'Alençon  • Château de la Motte, Joué du Plain Seine-Maritime (76) Arques-la-Bataille...
    61 KB (2,078 words) - 17:05, 26 June 2024
  • has media related to Château d'Harcourt. Base Mérimée: Château d'Harcourt, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) The Château d'Harcourt (Normandy...
    5 KB (652 words) - 21:28, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chambéry
    Chambéry are Barberaz, Bassens, Cognin, Jacob-Bellecombette, La Motte-Servolex, La Ravoire, Saint-Alban-Leysse and Sonnaz. The history of Chambéry is closely...
    23 KB (2,128 words) - 21:10, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Motte-Saint-Jean
    La Motte-Saint-Jean (French pronunciation: [la mɔt sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in...
    1 KB (65 words) - 20:12, 3 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Affair of the Diamond Necklace
    confidence trickster who called herself Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, also known as Jeanne de la Motte, made a plan to use the necklace to gain wealth...
    20 KB (2,842 words) - 08:13, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Lavardin
    The Château de Lavardin is a ruined castle in the village and commune of Lavardin in the Loir-et-Cher department of France. The property of the commune...
    10 KB (1,351 words) - 04:35, 19 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for La Motte-Saint-Martin
    La Motte-Saint-Martin is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Communes of the Isère department "Répertoire national des élus: les...
    2 KB (77 words) - 09:09, 18 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Martigné-sur-Mayenne
    the Château de la Motte-Husson, owned by Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree, which features in the Channel 4 television series Escape to the Chateau. Communes...
    3 KB (159 words) - 19:28, 3 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Château de Beauvais (Lussas-et-Nontronneau)
    The Castle of Beauvais (French:Château de Beauvais) is a French château located in the municipality of Lussas-et-Nontronneau, department of Dordogne, region...
    13 KB (2,018 words) - 05:19, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Pâris de Monmartel
    Jean Pâris de Monmartel (3 August 1690 at Moirans – 10 September 1766 at his château at Brunoy) was a French financier. He was the youngest of the four...
    12 KB (1,545 words) - 10:55, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Beaumesnil
    the forecourt and château from the west. Another footbridge connects the forecourt with the motte. The eastern side of the château overlooks a parterre...
    12 KB (1,396 words) - 21:07, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Borgia
    Catherine de Bourbon (born 14 October 1534) Jean de Bourbon, Seigneur of La Motte-Feuilly and de Montet (born 2 September 1537), married Euchariste de La Brosse-Morlet...
    9 KB (1,099 words) - 01:35, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Châteaubriant
    Rennes) built a castle on a motte bordering the Chère and Rollard rivers. Later, he also founded the priory Saint-Sauveur-de-Béré and a fair in the Béré...
    29 KB (3,287 words) - 06:41, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Madame du Barry
    trigger a scandal involving Jeanne de la Motte-Valois, in which Queen Marie Antoinette was accused of bribing Cardinal de Rohan to purchase it for her, accusations...
    31 KB (3,847 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for François Fénelon
    Existence of God. In 1688, Fénelon first met his cousin Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, usually known simply as Madame Guyon. At that time, she was well...
    27 KB (3,532 words) - 01:04, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint-André-de-Corcy
    mottes). The motte castrale Poype de la Roussière has been listed as monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1989. The Château de...
    3 KB (167 words) - 07:14, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Rochechouart
    Rochechouart, de Jumilhac, de Montbrun, de Château-Chervix, de Châlus, de Javarzay, d'Auberoche, de La Motte de Bauçay, de Cressey, de Montigny, du Plessis-Belin...
    44 KB (4,660 words) - 02:26, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Argentan
    Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany Communes of the Orne department Château de la Motte, Joué du Plain "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv...
    21 KB (1,867 words) - 16:33, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Rohan
    House of Rohan (redirect from De Rohan)
    (Morbihan) La Roche-Maurice Castle (Finistère) Château de Joyeuse Garde in La Forest-Landerneau (Finistère) Château de Mortiercrolles in Saint-Quentin-les-Anges...
    166 KB (7,089 words) - 22:41, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Champ de Mars
    are La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, École Militaire, and Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel, an RER suburban-commuter-railway station. A disused station, Champ de Mars...
    9 KB (984 words) - 15:25, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Léguillac-de-l'Auche
    Château de Faye, former Priory, The Feudal era Motte of the Redoubte the 19th-century Romanesque Church of Saint-Cloud, Ruins of the Priory of La Faye...
    2 KB (140 words) - 14:01, 13 December 2023