The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie. The Pont Royal...
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René of Anjou (redirect from Rene I of Naples)
France as the Good King René (Occitan: Rei Rainièr lo Bòn; French: Le bon roi René). René was a member of the House of Valois-Anjou, a cadet branch of...
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Kerrebrouck (Valois), p. 125 footnote 40, referring to Françoise Autrand "Charles VI le roi fou" in L'Histoire no 27 Oct 1980 pp 61-62. Joni M. Hand, Women, Manuscripts...
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Uzès (section Ucetia and Pont du Gard)
kilometres (31 miles) away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which carried fresh water over...
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Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken, who settled him in the Hôtel des Deux-Ponts. He became Count of Rappoltstein in 1776[citation needed] and took service...
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Donaldson Brown (category DuPont people)
October 2013. DuPont bio Archived 2010-04-28 at the Wayback Machine Donaldson Brown Hall Research: Donaldson Brown - The Father of ROI, Hagley Museum...
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then returned to France and was admitted to the Garde constitutionnelle du Roi. Although the latter was dissolved, on 5 June 1792, he continued to serve...
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Philip IV of France (redirect from Roi de fer)
friend and foe alike) other nicknames, such as the Iron King (French: le Roi de fer). His fierce opponent Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers, said of...
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band played the introduction of "For me formidable" [fr] by Charles Aznavour on the Pont des Arts footbridge, opening the fourth sequence, Égalité (equality)...
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decorate the Pont Neuf. The Four Seasons by Jean Goujon, decorating the facade of the Musée Carnavalet (1547) Monument for the heart of Francis I of France...
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Execution of Louis XVI (section Charles-Henri Sanson)
heard at the Pont Tournant, I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words: "I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those...
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de Chantilly Gardens of the Château de Bercy (demolished), Charenton-le-Pont Gardens of the Château de Braine (demolished, Braine, Aisne) Gardens of the...
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Joséphine during the Second Empire Avenue d'Iéna Avenue Kléber: Avenue du Roi-de-Rome during the Second Empire and Boulevard de Passy before Avenue Victor-Hugo:...
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi. Many châteaux from the 17th and 18th century (Château de Voisins, Château du Pont, Château du Parc, Château des Sources)...
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elms, and fruit trees. The King restored Paris as a great city, with the Pont Neuf, which still stands today, constructed over the river Seine to connect...
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House of Rohan (redirect from John I, Viscount of Rohan)
daigne, Roi je ne puis, Prince de Bretaigne, de Rohan je suis (Duke I will not, King I cannot, Prince of Brittany, of Rohan I am) or more often: Roi ne puis...
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and organ grinders on the Pont-Neuf. These contacts with players and musicians were a major factor in the formation of Charles's musical and poetic talents...
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visit by Charles III to France included a state banquet at the Palace. Panoramic view from the city Panoramic view from the park Bureau du Roi Fresh pavilion...
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Lescot's Pavillon du Roi, had barely been started. The unfinished Grande Galerie and the Tour du Bois (end tower of the Wall of Charles V) in the early 1600s...
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commune in Manche, Normandy. The derivation is from the Old French roy, roi (French pronunciation: [ʁwa]), meaning "king", which was a byname used before...
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officially attained his legal majority, but as the head of the Conseil du Roi, she retained the power. Noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at the...
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grains, 1775 Mémoire au roi sur l'établissement des administrations provinciales, 1776 Lettre au roi, 1777 Compte rendu au roi, 1781 De l'administration...
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Avignon (section "Sur le Pont d'Avignon")
Viollet-le-Duc. Bridges include: The Pont Saint-Bénézet, better known as the Pont d'Avignon and for the French song Sur le pont d'Avignon. Only four of the twenty...
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Schama, Penguin 1989 p. 313 Dutton, William S. (1942), Du Pont: One Hundred and Forty Years, Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN 42011897. Chronicle of the French...
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Traditional French units of measurement (redirect from Pied du roi)
variants. Some of Charlemagne's units, such as the king's foot (French: pied du Roi) remained virtually unchanged for about a thousand years, while others important...
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from Pont du Gard. The Gardon flows through the commune. In Roman times, the place was called Mons Ferinus (mountain of the ferocious animals). Charles Martel...
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Victor Hugo (redirect from Charles Vacquerie)
"Century Man" to refer to Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo's drawings Ville avec le pont de Tumbledown, ("Town with Tumbledown Bridge"), 1847. Pieuvre avec les initiales...
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July Revolution (category Louis Philippe I)
gunfire is becoming ever louder.... Cries of "À bas le roi!', 'À la guillotine!!" can be heard.... Charles X ordered Maréchal Auguste Marmont, Duke of Ragusa...
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documents in following years, and finally "Royal counsellor" (« conseiller du Roi, maison et couronne de France » 7 April 1573). In Paris, on 9 April 1551...
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