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3 days ago · Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain ( / peɪˈtæ̃ /, French: [filip petɛ̃]) or Marshal Pétain (French: Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, dur...
5 days ago · Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France.
13 hours ago · France's three most recent monarchs from the Houses of Bourbon, Bonaparte, and Orléans have some descendants. While Louis XVI and Lous XVIII don't have any direct descendants alive today, Charles X, Louis-Philippe, and Napoléon Bonaparte do. Even so, it's unlikely you'll see a king on the French throne in your lifetime.
4 days ago · Philippe de Valois, né en 1293 et mort le 22 août 1350 à Nogent-le-Roi [n 1] est roi de France de 1328 à 1350 sous le nom de Philippe VI, dit « le Fortuné [1] » ou « le Catholique [2] », est le premier roi de la dynastie capétienne des Valois, issue de la branche cadette de la maison capétienne fondée par son père Charles de Valois ...
2 days ago · Margaret of Austria. Signature. Anne of Austria ( French: Anne d'Autriche; Spanish: Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620.
4 days ago · Signature. Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon .
2 days ago · Four riders have won five Tours each: Jacques Anquetil of France (1957 and 1961–64), Eddy Merckx of Belgium (1969–72 and 1974), Bernard Hinault of France (1978–79, 1981–82, and 1985), and Miguel Indurain of Spain (1991–95). A list of Tour de France winners is provided in the table. Special 67% offer for students!
