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    The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret, Blanche, and Joan, the daughters-in-law of King...
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    Château Gaillard essentially is the result of one period of building. The division into three wards bears similarities with the design of Château de Chinon...
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    The Château d'Esclimont is a historic château that is located in the commune of Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien (formerly Saint-Symphorien-le-Château), in...
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    the Château de la Muette On the Duchess of Berry's death in 1719, the château passed to the nine-year-old king, Louis XV. The king used the château to...
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    Nesles (French pronunciation: [nɛl]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Nesles is situated about 12...
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    (1907–1998) is set in Château-Thierry. and Sylvain Lévignac [fr], actor and stuntman, died in Château-Thierry. Charles Ferton père [fr]. Edmond de Tillancourt [fr]...
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    ISBN 2-08-012271-1. Château de Dourdan - Ville de Dourdan (in French) Article and photos of the Château de Doudan Nice picture and history about the Château de Dourdan...
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  • d'agglomération de la Région de Château-Thierry is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Château-Thierry. It...
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    of Château-Thierry were, as of January 2015: Charly-sur-Marne Château-Thierry Condé-en-Brie Fère-en-Tardenois Neuilly-Saint-Front Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres :...
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    The Château de Pontchartrain is mainly in the municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain within Yvelines, in the west of the Île de France region of France...
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    Julie de Mailly-Nesle, comtesse de Mailly (French pronunciation: [lwiz ʒyli də maji nɛl]; 1710–1751) was the eldest of the five famous de Nesle sisters...
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    he was a grandfather of Laure-Suzanne-Marie (née de Mailly-Nesle) Maingard, who sold the Château d'Esclimont in 1981 to René Traversac, president of...
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    Perrin converted the Bouteille tennis court, located on the Rue des Fossés de Nesles (now 42 Rue Mazarine), into a rectangular facility with provisions for...
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    Palace of Versailles. In Sarthe, he lived at the Château de Bonnétable and, in Eure-et-Loir, the Château d'Esclimont, where his daughter Yolande was raised...
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  • Montmorency, lord of Écouen, of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, of Feuillarde, of Château-Basset, of Mourning, of Épinay, of Saint-Brice, of Groslay and of Taverny...
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    Nesle-Normandeuse is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. A village of farming and light industry situated...
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    Poitiers August Falconry, Château d'Étampes September Château de Saumur October Louvre November December Boar hunt, Château de Vincennes The parchment or...
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    A plaque on the northern wall of the Institut de France shows the ancient location of the Tour de Nesle Académie Française (French Academy, concerning...
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    Brasles Brécy Château-Thierry Chierry Coincy Épaux-Bézu Épieds Étampes-sur-Marne Étrépilly Fossoy Gland Grisolles Mont-Saint-Père Nesles-la-Montagne Rocourt-Saint-Martin...
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    family, the Anguissola family, and the de Blaisy family. Those on the left represent the de Montagus and de Nesles, and two unidentified families. Although...
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    Beautiful Villages of France) Association. The commune grew around the Château de La Roche-Guyon, upon which historically it depended for its existence...
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    crown. It was given to Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchess of Châteauroux, by Louis XV in 1744. The present Château Raoul [fr] housing the préfecture...
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  • Thumbnail for Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux
    Peace and Culture, used to live in Nesles. The inhabitants are called Luminiciens (in Lumigny) or Neslois (in Nesles). Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department...
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    observations, is all that remains. There was a hôtel on the site owned by Jean II de Nesle at the start of the 13th century. He had no heirs, and in 1232 ceded the...
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    Seringes-et-Nesles (French pronunciation: [səʁɛ̃ʒ e nɛl]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The villages of Seringes...
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  • Thumbnail for Nesles-la-Montagne
    Nesles-la-Montagne (French pronunciation: [nɛl la mɔ̃taɲ]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Communes of the...
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    favourite weekend getaway for Parisians, as well as for the historic Château de Fontainebleau, which once belonged to the kings of France. It is also...
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    accompanying them at their games at the Château de Bagatelle, even having their own apartments in the château de Rosny-sur Seine, owned by the Dowager Duchess...
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    MR 1706), created by the Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini for the Château de Fontainebleau in France. It features a long-limbed reclining nude female...
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    Bourbon was exiled to his country estate, the Château de Chantilly, 40 kilometers northeast of Paris. The château then underwent a sort of renaissance, being...
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