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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. |
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