modern French Lutèce). It became a prosperous city with a forum, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre. By the end of the Western Roman Empire...

poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had been influenced by Milton. In his poem Laon and Cythna, Shelley praised the "serpent", a reference to Satan, as a force...

Hauts-de-France in northern France. In the Middle Ages, the village near Laon developed around the cult of the Black Virgin, known as Notre-Dame de Liesse...

Charles Martel (686–741) Pepin the Short (714–768) and his wife, Bertrada of Laon (born 710–727, died 783) Charles the Bald (823–877) (his brass monument was...

Trouillart who died in 1587; both were royal attorneys in the Provost of Laon and attorneys in the Bailiwick of Vermandois, and Bodin took over the charges...

Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres, and Laon, among others. The fleur-de-lis was the symbol of Île-de-France, the core of the French kingdom. It has...

de Lantenac), monks, Diocese of Saint-Brieuc (La Chèze, Côtes-d'Armor) Laon (Aisne), Diocese of Laon: Abbey of St. John, Laon (Abbaye Saint-Jean de Laon)...

sieges of Protestant cities such as the siege of Sancerre. The conflict ended with the 1573 Peace of La Rochelle, which restricted the Protestant worship...

through legal channels, he confronted Protestants as they travelled to worship in July at their recently re-opened temple, causing many to flee in terror....

the sky through his floating ship named Sarimbar/Salimbal. Laon and Kan (Hiligaynon) – Laon was a king of Negros; he owns a head cloth named Birang that...

1795, the National Convention proclaimed religious equality for France's Protestant churches and other religions. In April 1802, Napoleon published laws increasing...

exchange of Lyon, Protestant temple since the 18th century Place Bellecour, one of the largest town squares in Europe Chapelle de la Trinité (1622),...

commentary that were immediately and vitally influential in both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will,...

on it, virtue flourish on it, and earth no longer differ from heaven. Protestant clerics, such as Richard Salter Storrs, refer to him as "one of the most...

disciple of St. Norbert from Lorraine, became the first abbot, coming from Laon. A certain mystery surrounds the founding of this abbey: a tradition reported...

Cardinal Richelieu. The Protestants again suffered persecution later in the century, as Louis XIV began to persecute Protestants by sending troops to their...

accepted by the Jews and enthroned in the temple at Jerusalem—thus endeavoring to dispose of the Protestant exposition which saw in the pope the Antichrist...

d'Estrées, Bishop of Laon, as a mediator in the matter. Two bishops who had signed the letter to the pope, Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Archbishop...

The John XXIII Chapel in the Dollée quarter The city also has a temple of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. It was built by architect Verrey with...

Venerable Bede, Walafrid Strabo, Anselm of Laon, Hugh of Saint-Cher, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Nicholas de Lyra. The Venerable Bede (seventh to eighth...

2002. Le faune du vieil étang ermite, La Porte, Laon, 2002. Janus et la méduse, La licorne, Bourg-de-Thizy, 2004. Catalyse, Souffles, Montpellier, 2008...

in the 13th century. Façade of Laon Cathedral (begun 1160) Notre Dame de Paris begun in 1163 by the archbishop Maurice de Sully, was the largest and highest...

born into a Protestant Ascendancy family in Ireland. He was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two...

the site of the temple of Augustus, is partly Romanesque and partly Gothic in style. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes The Musée de la Romanité, a museum...

1552, Metz passed into the hands of the Kings of France. As the German Protestant Princes who traded Metz (alongside Toul and Verdun) for the promise of...

include: the production of the gloss on Scripture associated with Anselm of Laon, the rise to prominence of dialectic (middle subject of the medieval trivium)...

vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Latin and Protestant traditions of the West, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox traditions...

Beaugency, conquered by Protestants just before, were looted by Catholics led by Maréchal de St. André. On 7 February 1568, Protestants under Captain Boucard's...

churches in France include Bourges Cathedral, Amiens Cathedral, Notre-Dame de Laon, Notre-Dame in Paris, Reims Cathedral, the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, Strasbourg...

(1591–1655), Protestant clergyman Claude D'Espence (1511–1571) French theologian Jean Talon (1626–1694), first Intendant of New France Antoine de Chézy (1718–1798)...