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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Troyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was at Troyes, then in the hands of the Burgundians, that on 21 May, 1420, the treatgy was signed by which Henry VI of England was betrothed to Catherine, daughter of Charles VI, and was to succeed him to the detriment of the dauphin.
The dauphin, afterwards Charles VII, and Blessed Joan of Arc recovered the town of Troyes in 1429.
The cathedral of Troyes is a fine Gothic structure begun in the twelfth, and completed in the fifteenth, century; the ancient collegiate Church of St. Urban is a Gothic building whose lightness of treatment reminds one of La Sainte Chapelle at Paris.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15067a.htm   (1336 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
TROYES, PIERRE DE, known as the Chevalier de Troyes, officer, son of Michel de Troyes, an attorney in the Parlement of Paris, and of Madeleine Alard; d.
The Chevalier de Troyes was in command of one of the four companies of the expedition, which set out on 17 June 1687.
The Chevalier de Troyes was himself struck down by this malady, and he succumbed to it on 8 May 1688.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34690   (653 words)

  
 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661-1706) was the founder of the colony of Louisiana.
He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, Sieur de Longueuil, and of Catharine Primot.
Iberville became a sailor at an early age and served as a volunteer under the Chevalier de Troyes in Hudson Bay.
www.theezine.net /p/pierre-le-moyne-d-iberville.html   (250 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville
He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, a native of Dieppe Sieur de Longueuil in Canada, and of Catharine Primot.
In 1706 Iberville captured the island of Nevis from the English, and went to Havana to obtain reinforcements from the Spaniards for an attack on the Carolinas.
He was capitaine de vaisseau in the French navy and was said to have been as "military as his sword." He was an able sailor, soldier, explorer, and colonizer.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07614b.htm   (683 words)

  
 Trading Post and Employees
Not the least of which was the loss of two of its founders Radisson and Des Groseilliers.
At this point, the French were already in heavy competition with the English for control of the fur trade in North America.
One of the most famous of these French raiding parties was led by Chevalier des Troyes.
www.angelfire.com /zine/linz/indexy13.html   (1510 words)

  
 Chevalier, Ulysse --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Later the title chevalier came to be used in a variety of senses not always denoting membership in any order of chivalry; it was frequently used by men of noble birth or noble pretensions who could not claim any of the standard territorial titles.
She is best remembered for costarring in a number of highly successful musical features in the 1930s and early 1940s with French actor Maurice Chevalier and then with U.S. actor Nelson Eddy.
Includes a history of the manuscript, a key to the transcriptions, medieval and modern French editions of the text, and an overview of the digitization project.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9023904   (651 words)

  
 Vigée Le Brun Master Painting List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Upon being widowed, she remarried in 1778, at the age of 19, to le baron Pierre Paul de Kolly, fermier général, son of a banker of the court, exécuteur testamentaire de samuel Bernard, the richest man of France.
She was dame de compagnie of Madame Victoire, and died in prison under the Terror.
She was the great-niece of Charles Alexandre de Calonne, and in 1803 married Anne Pierre, the Vicomte de Bertier de Sauvigny.
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 www.humor.ch - Booklist Irony (English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aesthetic Distance in Crétien de Troyes: Irony and Comedy in Cliges and Perceval.
"L'ironie des personnages et celle d'une ecriture: Les Georgiques de Claude Simon." in Le Personnage Romanesque.
Recherche de l'ironie et ironie de la Recherche.
www.humor.ch /buecher/buchirony.htm   (2401 words)

  
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It is an extended allegorical poem begun by Guillaume de Lorris and completed by Jean de Meung, in which in a dream vision the Lover wishes to win his Lady, the Rose.
L'archidiacre de Bayeux est nommé évêque de Lisieux en 1377.[1] Oresme est un esprit universel : théologien, philosophe, économiste, géomètre, physicien.
U.F.R. de Philosophie LEIBNIZ : Discours de Métaphysique.
www.geomance.com /dodecafr/atlas.htm   (6949 words)

  
 Our Mysterious World--a collection of weirdness
Hugh de Payens, a vassal of the count of Champagne, France and eight other Crusader knights form the "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon", later to be known as the "Knights Templar".
De Leon recounts native superstitions about these creatures, and goes on to tell of a Spaniard who found a carcass of one in the forests.
In Rio de Janeiro, a modern-day researcher named Fawcett found a report of the long forgotten discovery by the Spanish in 1753 of the ruins of a monumental stone city; there was no record of it ever having been visited again.
www.geocities.com /nmdecke/MysteriousWorld.html   (21016 words)

  
 FREN 5080   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Chretien de Troyes, Romans de la Table Ronde, ed.
Guillaume le maréchal, ou le meilleur chevalier du monde by Georges Duby.
To be distributed: excerpts from Le roman de la rose, Poemes d'amour.
www.colorado.edu /UCB/AcademicAffairs/ArtsSciences/FRIT/des/997fr508.html   (225 words)

  
 Assigned   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While l'amour courtois in works of this period often include issues of adultery, social status and unrequited relations, each author weaves his or her own intrigue and thereby creates a unique definition of l'amour courtois.
Chrètien de Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion
The Renaissance was a reactionary period to the Middle Ages -- after all, it was just "moyen!" Around the 14th century, Italy became the birth place of a new, secular way of thought that wasled by the much acclaimed classical age.
www.unc.edu /gform-links/courses/pre2000fall/fren60/assigned.htm   (319 words)

  
 VoS - Voice of the Shuttle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Chevalier au lion (transcriptions in Old French from a number of manuscripts) (Laboratoire de français ancien, U. of Ottawa)
Chevalier au lion: Transcription synoptique des manuscrits et fragments (manuscript description and transcription into Old French, as part of the LAF hosted by U. of Ottawa) (Kajsa Meyer, U. of Copenhagen)
Philippe de Thaon The Bestiary of Philippe de Thaon (intro and links to 3 e-text versions, including the original Anglo-Norman of the Livre des creatures, edited by Thomas Wright) (David Badke, The Medieval Bestiary)
vos.ucsb.edu /browse.asp?id=961   (1992 words)

  
 D'Artagnan & Cyrano de Bergerac
Is struck by disease and hit by a falling beam.
Finds refuge at the Convent of the Daughter of the Cross where his cousin Mme de Neufvilette (aka Roxane) and his aunt Catherine de Cyrano live.
These books were issued under in the US as part of "The Years Between" series.
www.coolfrenchcomics.com /dartagnancyrano.htm   (854 words)

  
 Question.com: Encyclopedia
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• Le représentant d'un nouvel heroïsme: étude de Gauvain dans les romans de Chrétien de Troyes (Margaret Jewett)
• La correspondance de Voltaire et Dorothée de Meiningen Duchesse de Saxe-Gotha: Une amitié épistolaire 1751-1767 (Katherine Kittleman)
• Mythologie de la terre et idéologie politique: le cas de Jean Giono et d'Aimé Césaire pendant les années trente (Leon Sachs)
www.brynmawr.edu /french/ma.html   (930 words)

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