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6 days ago · It is known for Pont-l'Évêque cheese, a type of soft [Guigues VIII of Viennois] Grève, Paris. Guigues was killed while besieging the Savoyard castle of La Perrière in 1333. He left the Dauphiné to his brother Humbert II.
4 days ago · Called the “Guardians of Guigues”, these two Lowertown women are well known to Francophones but less recognized by others. Ontario Regulation 17, passed in 1912, placed severe restrictions on the teaching of French in our Lowertown schools, forbidding the language beyond the first two years.
18 hours ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine ( French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen of England from ...
3 days ago · Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – 1153) was the third son of a family of the Burgundian nobility. His parents had seven children. Four were declared blessed by the Catholic Church. As a child, Saint Bernard was devout and studious. He received an excellent education at the hands of secular canons.
3 days ago · Main Properties. Entity ID : 5362. Entity Type : 81. Full Name : Legio VII Gemina. Type : military-legion [81]
4 days ago · In pursuance of his letters has bought eight hobbies and sends them by his servant Simon. Good horses are scarce in England, where they are spoilt by being worked too young. They go through France with the French ambassador's passport; for the Most Christian King loves the Marquis. London, 15 Nov. 1511.
4 days ago · Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 1, January-July 1539, ed. James Gairdner, R H Brodie ( London, 1894), ...
