The Château de Mursay is a ruined 16th-century castle in the commune of Échiré, 10 km north of Niort in the Deux-Sèvres département of France. The Château...
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the future marquise de Maintenon and second wife of Louis XIV, was his cousin. She lived in his parents' house, the Château de Mursay, and received a Calvinist...
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List of castles in France (section Centre-Val de Loire)
• Castelnou • Château Royal de Collioure • Château Vicomtal Saint-Pierre de Fenouillet • Palais des Rois de Majorque • Fort de Salses • Ultrère...
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Batailles Navales de La France (in French), vol. 1, P. Levot, retrieved 2018-09-09 Vilette-Mursay, Philippe de (1991), Mes campagnes de mer sous Louis XIV...
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children went to the care of their paternal aunt, Madame de Villette. The Villettes' home, Mursay, became a happy memory for Françoise, who had been in the...
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to the north. Château d'Angoulême in Angoulême Château d'Ars in Ars Château de Bagnolet in Cognac Château de Balzac in Balzac Château de Barbezieux in...
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Madame de Villette, was born in 1584 at Mursay to Suzanne de Lusignan de Lezay; at an early age, on 22 October 1610, she married Benjamin Valois de Vilette...
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(1702–1709), Machault de Bellemont (Charles François de) (in French), retrieved 2018-09-11 Vilette-Mursay, Philippe de (1991), Mes campagnes de mer sous Louis...
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his duchess. Later in 1718, after the death of Madame de Maintenon, she inherited the Château de Maintenon and her aunt's wealth, as promised. Thus, from...
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Callenburgh. In the centre, the French White squadron (16 ships under Villette Mursay, Tourville and Langeron) opposed the English Red squadron (27 ships under...
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back at the Strait of Gibraltar, losing two ships in a storm, and Villette Mursay with the Rochefort squadron was delayed. Tourville's Brest fleet was undermanned...
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students included Maintenon's niece Marthe-Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Mursay, marquise de Caylus, and Napoleon's sister Elisa Bonaparte, grand duchess...
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