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    passage. Tourists are told that he is buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert, adjoining the Château, which had been built in 1491–96. Pierre Brantôme said...
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    Clement VII is said to given them to Catherine de' Medici as a wedding gift. Brantôme wrote that she gave them to Mary and he saw her wearing them. Catherine...
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    From the time of Charlemagne, Sicarius of Bethlehem was venerated at Brantôme, Dordogne as one of the purported victims of the Massacre. In the Middle...
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    whether one of the sisters was named Maria or Anna. Names: Sicarius of Brantôme, St. Memorius Source: St. Helena Appears in the Bible at: Matthew 2:6–18...
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    Sicarius of Bethlehem (known as Sicarius of Brantôme)  Israel,  France Abbey church of Saint-Pierre de Brantôme Invoked for general cures One of the victims...
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    city had surrendered on 2 December the royal army was a broken shell. Brantôme relates an anecdote where after the surrender, Biron attacked his men who...
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    show of strength. The pilgrimage was armed, like a crusade. According to Brantôme, Guise was being urged at this time by councillors and one of his brothers...
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    lieutenant-general celebrated mass in Notre-Dame with the 'Triumvirate'. According to Brantôme, Saint-André proposed to Guise that they drown Catherine. Entreated by...
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    Malespini and Boccaccio said she married at 50 and 55 respectively, and Brantôme argued that she married at 50 and gave birth at 52, while none was true...
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    already knew Spanish and who liked to read it. Pierre de Bourdeille, Lord of Brantôme, stated this when he said that Queen Margaret understood and spoke Spanish...
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    depictions of relationships between women (Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L'Espion...
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    turned to as a diplomat for the crown, and according to the memoirist Brantôme undertook around thirty embassies during his life. In the absence of her...
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    father, Edward Onslow, and a French mother, Marie Rosalie de Bourdeilles de Brantôme; his paternal grandfather was George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow. In Onslow's...
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    the king, which he advised would appease their discontent. According to Brantôme, if such a system worked at this time, it broke down by the time of the...
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  • domaine and Book 2 : Le bras de la vengeance, Rageo [fr] 1996 : Marie Brantôme [fr], Avec tout ce qu’on a fait pour toi, Seuil Jeunesse 1997 : Luis Sepulveda...
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    noteworthy that Queen Margaret, as attested by Pierre de Bourdeille, Lord of Brantôme, possessed a proficiency in Spanish and Italian as if she had been nurtured...
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    future comte de Brissac (count of Brissac), his relative the seigneur de Brantôme, the Florentine Strozzi and three hundred other gentilshommes (gentleman)...
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    simple natural elements; trees, flowers, water and stone to suggest the passage of mankind from nature to agriculture to the city. It uses a symbolic sacred...
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    Bessire, s. l., Babel, 1998, 453 pages (coll. Les Épistolaires) Marie Brantôme, Le Galant exil du marquis de Boufflers, 1786 Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand...
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  • Ladies (Vies de dames galantes), by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1901–1902) – 1st English translation The Massacre of the Innocents (Massacre...
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    Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550) July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer July 16 – Tsarevich Ivan Dmitriyevich...
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  • political and cultural observations. Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme wrote biographical sketches of the men and women of the court. Jean Bodin...
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    Inventaires de la Royne Descosse (Edinburgh, 1863), p. lxxvii citing Brantôme: Michael Bath, Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings (Brill, 2018),...
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