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    Pierre de L'Estoile (1546 – 8 October 1611) was a French diarist and collector. Born in Paris into a middle-class background, Pierre de l'Estoile was...
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    the late Valois monarchy. According to the contemporary chronicler Pierre de l'Estoile, they made themselves "exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish...
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  • Claude de L'Estoile (1602, Paris – May 1652) was a French playwright and poet. He was a founder member of the Académie française. Third son of Pierre de L'Estoile...
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  • offered to St. Foutin, and suspended to the ceiling of his chapel. Pierre de L'Estoile commented that, as the ceiling was covered with them, when the wind...
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    August 1995, p. 2; Genealogy of François Ravaillac Pierre de l'Estoile, Journal pour le règne de Henri IV, Paris: Gallimard, p 84, 1960. Walker and Dickerman...
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  • Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa d'Aubigné and Pierre de l'Estoile and a Huguenot; his mother, Marie Bletz, was the niece of the humanist...
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    favorite Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, but Catherine flatly refused to marry him. Jacques Auguste de Thou and Pierre de L'Estoile, both hostile to...
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    wrote a memoir of his 1562 experience and had it printed in 1606. Pierre de L'Estoile noted its publication in July 1606. In a later addition to the story...
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    Marie Elisabeth of France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    fr (in French). L’Estoile, Journal, o. c., p. 180. Pierre de L’Estoile, Registre-Journal du règne de Henri III, vol. II (1576-1578), Genève: Droz, 1996...
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    Pierre de L'Estoile records a vignette of Gabrielle d'Estrées' status at this time: "The duchess of Beaufort [was] seated in a chair, and Madame de Guise...
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  • God. In his decision, the king was quoted by contemporary writer Pierre de L'Estoile to have said: "If the woman would not have been married, I would...
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    rendered him at times an enigma to his contemporaries. The chronicler Pierre de L'Estoile accused Charles of great duplicity; Brantôme spoke of his "deeply...
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  • of these books." Pierre de L'Estoile, Mémoires-journaux : 1574-1611. Tome 2; p. 132. de L'Estoile 2000, p. 117. Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, The book...
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    in 1589 (1590 according to Burty 1886). According to his friend Pierre de L'Estoile, Palissy was born in 1510. The location of Palissy's birth is not...
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    Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe. Brill. de L'Estoile, Pierre (1992). Registre-journal du règne de Henri III.: 1574-1575. Librairie Droz S.A. Marshall...
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  • advocate in Parliament, he was a favourite of Michel de l'Hospital, Étienne Pasquier and Pierre de l'Estoile. Art poetique franc̜ois. Pour l'instruction dés...
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    Orléans and Paris, about 1520, he had for teachers Maturin Cordier and Pierre de L'Estoile, the canonists, and Melchior Wolmar, teacher of Greek, whose names...
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    wedding astonished and flabbergasted contemporaries. The diarist Pierre de l'Estoile wrote of the 'enormity and waste' at a time when there was much need...
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    the letters of Louis XII, the memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, of Castelnau and Pierre de l'Estoile, and left some useful material for the history of the...
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  • Desportes (1546–1606) Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611) Jean de La Ceppède (1548–1623) Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, called Duplessis-Mornay)...
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    favour of the true king, god. Hatred of Henri exploded across France. Pierre de l'Estoile, a Parisian diarist records that the sheets were filled with shouts...
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    barred, though she was allowed through the barricades. The chronicler L'Estoile reported that she cried all through her lunch that day. She wrote to Bellièvre...
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  • (1918–2007), American author Élisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), French mystic Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611), French collector Didier Lestrade (born 1958), French...
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    work there or personal conflicts: his friend at the time, diarist Pierre de L'Estoile, recorded in his diary that he met with disapproval with Huguenot...
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  • ). Harlow, England: Longman. ISBN 9781408228197. OCLC 501404324. Pierre de l'Estoile recorded in his diary "This was so odious to the Court, that if the...
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    of the 'politically unreliable', (among them the famous diarist Pierre de L'Estoile) were undertaken. He further received the appointment as ligueur...
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    ministres de la nouvelle opinion. He was later accused of having defended the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, notably by Pierre de l'Estoile. He may have...
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  • Guessard, 1842, p. 148. Pierre de L'Estoile, Mémoires et Journal, Collection complète des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France 45, ed. Alexandre...
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    in France. Of the cahiers that we lack a record of, the diary of Pierre de l'Estoile offers a hint at what they contained. He speaks of deputies from...
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    1580 influenza pandemic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Traité de Médicine et de Thérapeutique. 9: 6. Bonnefon, M. Paul (1888). Lemerre, Alphonse (ed.). Mémoires-journaux de Pierre de L'Estoile: Journal de Henri...
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