Saint-Volusien-de-Foix. Jacques also had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses: Frederic de Foix (d. 1537), Seigneur d'Almenèches, and Jacques de Foix (d...
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Duke of Kendal (redirect from Duc de Candale)
de Foix, 2nd comte de Candale (d. 1500) Gaston III de Foix, 3rd comte de Candale (d. 1536) Frédéric de Foix, 4th comte de Candale (d. 1571) Henri de Foix...
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Foix (/fwɑː/ fwah, French pronunciation: [fwa] ; Occitan: Fois [ˈfujs, ˈfujʃ]; Catalan: Foix [ˈfoʃ]) is a commune, the former capital of the County of...
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Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix; c. 1449– 15 May 1486) was Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486 by marriage to Duke Francis II. She was the...
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destroyed, and the New Castle built in the 17th century as a residence for Frédéric de Foix. It was sold during the French Revolution, and became a Protestant...
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Saint-Volusien-de-Foix. Jacques also had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses: Frederic de Foix (d. 1537), Lord d'Almenèches, and Jacques de Foix (d....
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Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours (10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512), nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance...
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Ursula Germaine of Foix (c. 1488 – 15 October 1536) was an early modern French noblewoman from the House of Foix. She was the daughter of John, Viscount...
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Count of Foix imprisoned his son Gaston after the latter tried to poison him. The Count later murdered the young Gaston. (in French) Frédéric Mercey, « Le...
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over forty sensation novels like Mémoires du diable (1837-8). Frédéric Soulié was born in Foix, the son of a philosopher professor. He gained a law degree...
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Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, born Charles-Pierre-Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix (13 June 1736 in Paris – 23 June 1810 in Bourbonne-les-Bains), was...
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/ 42.560139; 1.810104 The Col de Puymorens ("Puymorens Pass") is a mountain pass in the French Pyrenees, connecting Foix to Cerdagne. Its summit is 1,915m...
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Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne (category House of Foix)
Duke of Bourbon, she married John of Foix on 8 September 1483. She had two children by John of Foix: Germaine of Foix (1488–1538) married Ferdinand II of...
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Académie Française. Freycinet was born at Foix (Ariège) of a Protestant family and was the nephew of Louis de Freycinet, a French navigator and the grandson...
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region of Occitanie. It is named after the river Ariège and its capital is Foix. Ariège is known for its rural landscape, with a population of 153,287 as...
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favourite residences of Duke Francis II who was remarried there, to Marguerite de Foix in 1474. He built a second rectangular enceinte flanked by artillery towers...
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(arrangements) 1809: Françoise de Foix, in three acts by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Dupaty, (operture) 1813: Le Forgeron de Bassora, opéra comique in...
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(1550–55), Comte de Foix, Duc d'Albret (1550) and King of Navarre Jeanne d'Albret (1556–72) Henry III and IV (1572-1589) Catherine de Bourbon (1589-1604)...
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Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle (d. 1396) Isabella, Countess of Foix, vassal ruler (d. 1428) King Charles III of Navarre (d. 1425) She Xiang,...
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February 1512, the French forces in Italy, newly commanded by Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours, had been engaged in capturing cities in the Romagna and the...
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(1288–1344), a nun at Poissy Joan (1289–aft. 1350), married Gaston I, Count of Foix, in Senlis in 1301 Othon (died 2 November 1291) Marie (1291–22 January 1365...
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having finally drawn Henry VIII into the League, sent an army under Odet de Foix and Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto through Genoa—where Andrea Doria had...
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taken on their lives. Marcel's interactions with figures like Le Prince de Foix and Madame Verdurin reveal the shifting dynamics of society in the aftermath...
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OGC Nice (redirect from Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice Côte d'Azur)
Olympique Gymnaste Club de Nice (French pronunciation: [ɔlɛ̃pik ʒimnast klœb də nis]), commonly referred to as OGC Nice or simply Nice, is a French professional...
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Elisabeth of Valois (redirect from Isabel de Valois)
Elisabeth of France, or Elisabeth of Valois (Spanish: Isabel de Valois; French: Élisabeth de Valois) (2 April 1546 – 3 October 1568), was Queen of Spain...
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Blanche of Brittany (redirect from Blanche de Dreux)
Poissy Joan (1289 – aft. 1350), married in 1301 in Senlis, Gaston I, Count of Foix Othon (died 2 November 1291) Marie of Artois (1291 – 22 January 1365, Wijnendaele)...
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Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
d'Ivry, and the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux. Famous people buried in Parisian cemeteries include Oscar Wilde, Frédéric Chopin, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf...
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Marshal of France (redirect from Maréchal de France)
Meillan and of Charenton (1473–1511), Marshal of France in 1506 Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, Viscount of Lautrec (1485–1528), Marshal of France in 1511...
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[lo Comtat Venaicin] (Carpentras) – 3,600 km2 (est.) County of Foix [County of Fois] (Foix) – 3,300 km2 (est.) X. Bourbonnais (southern half) – approx....
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Santa Marta was pro-French. It hosted the funerary monument of Gaston de Foix [it] by Agostino Busti. Other artists who worked for Santa Marta include...
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