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    Pierre d'Amboise (1408 – 28 June 1473) was a French nobleman of the House of Amboise. He was a son of Hugh VIII of Amboise, who was killed at the battle...
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    succeed him. Peter II then pursued the murderers of his other brother, Gilles. By 1455, Peter II and his wife, Frances d'Amboise, had failed to produce...
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    considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father, Pierre d'Amboise, seigneur de Chaumont, was chamberlain to Charles VII and Louis XI...
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  • Breton and François d'Amboise. He was friends with Gilles Corrozet.[citation needed] In 1572, he accompanied François d'Amboise into Poland, on a diplomatic...
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  • Jacques d'Amboise (1559–1606) was a French medical doctor and surgeon. He was the son of Jean d'Amboise, ordinary surgeon to the king and was himself...
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    Charles II d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont (1473 – 11 March 1511) was a French nobleman, who acted as French governor of Milan (1503–1511) during the reign...
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  • son of Pierre d'Amboise. He had six children with his wife Catherine de Chauvigny (1447–1485). François Charles II d'Amboise (1473 - 1511) Louis II d'Amboise...
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    castle was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois. After Pierre d'Amboise rebelled against Louis XI, the king ordered the castle's destruction...
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    Charles Pierre François Augereau, duc de Castiglione (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl pjɛʁ oʒʁo]; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military commander...
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    Marie Joseph Pierre François Kœnig or Koenig (10 October 1898 – 2 September 1970) was a French general during World War II during which he commanded a...
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    after the unexpected death of Pierre's elder brother, her husband came to rule Brittany as Pierre II. Françoise d'Amboise became the Duchess of Brittany...
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    Lucien (1923). La Conjuration d'Amboise. L'aurore sanglante de la liberté de conscience, le règne et la mort de François II. Paris: Perrin. Romier, Lucien...
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    Jacques Pierre Brissot (French pronunciation: [ʒak pjɛʁ bʁiso], 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist...
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    Marie said their farewells at the Château d'Amboise on 28 August 1575, never to see each other again. Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, whose...
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    Pierre d'Aubusson (1423 – 3 July 1503) was a Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, and a zealous opponent of the Ottoman Empire. Pierre...
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    Pierre-Augustin Hulin (French pronunciation: [pjeʁ oɡystɛ̃ ylɛ̃]; 6 September 1758 – 9 January 1841) was a French general under Napoleon Bonaparte who...
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  • (died 1525) 6 March – John V, Count of Armagnac (born 1420) 28 June – Pierre d'Amboise, French noble (born 1408) 27 July – Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (born...
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  • Count of Auxerre (1543-1545), married (1542) to Catherine d'Amboise, daughter of Charles I d'Amboise, widow of Christophe de Tournon and Philibert de Beaujeu;...
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    and Aubijoux (extinct in 1656). Cardinal Georges d'Amboise (1460–1510) was the son of Pierre d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont. First house of Amboise (circa...
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    Count of Dammartin: 1485–1488 Gilbert de Montpensier: 14..–1494 Charles II d'Amboise: 1493–1496 Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, Lord of Barbezieux: 15..–15....
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    a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young King Francis II and to reverse the policies of the current administration of Francis, Duke...
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    period as a sculptor to Henri II. Tomb of the two Cardinals d'Amboise The Chapel of the Virgin Tomb of Louis and Pierre de Brézé Diane de Poitier, kneeling...
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    arms of King Francis I, and he was buried in a crypt near the Château d'Amboise. The house has lost some of its original parts, but it still stands today...
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    his son, Guillaume de Lusignan. In 1350, it was in the hands of Pierre II d'Amboise, viscount of Thouars, before being bought by La Rochefoucauld family...
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    million in damages and the return of five properties, including the Château d'Amboise. In 1886, the château was bequeathed to the Institute of France by Jean's...
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    Claude-Pierre, Comte de Pajol (French pronunciation: [klod pjɛʁ paʒɔl]; 3 February 1772 – 20 March 1844), was a French cavalry general and political during...
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    separated from the French crown, Queen Anne, with help of Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, promoted a solution for this problem, a marriage contract between Claude...
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    Cardinal. He was the son of Pierre-Tristan, Seigneur de Clermont et de Clermont-Lodève and Vicomte de Nébouzan, and Catherine d'Amboise. His father was a member...
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    Gaston Billotte (category French Army generals of World War II)
    "With all respect, he's no loss to us in this emergency." Billotte's son Pierre Billotte also graduated from École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1926;...
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    Mercœur (1494 – 26 May 1539, Nancy), married on 26 June 1515 at the Château d'Amboise to Antoine, Duke of Lorraine Anne (1495 – 1510, Spain) Gilbert was made...
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