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1 day ago · The Limbourg brothers' Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. The Met's collection of medieval art consists of a comprehensive range of Western art from the 4th through the early 16th centuries, as well as Byzantine and pre-medieval European antiquities not included in the Ancient Greek and Roman collection. Like the Islamic collection ...
4 days ago · Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be ...
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5 days ago · Philippe de France, premier duc Valois de Bourgogne, dit « Philippe le Hardi » [N 1], né le 17 janvier 1342 à Pontoise et mort le 27 avril 1404 à Hal , est le quatrième et dernier fils du roi Jean II de France, dit « Jean le Bon », et de Bonne de Luxembourg.
5 days ago · Le résumé : Depuis le musée des Arts décoratifs, en plein coeur de Paris, Christine Bravo soulève les Jupons de l'une des plus grandes figures de la monarchie restaurée, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles, plus connue sous le nom de Duchesse de Berry (1798-1870).Héroïne du dernier soulèvement royaliste que la France ait connu, elle est ...
5 days ago · 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 . Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans ...
4 days ago · Charles IX (born June 27, 1550, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris—died May 30, 1574, Vincennes, France) was the king of France from 1560, remembered for authorizing the massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew’s Day, August 23–24, 1572, on the advice of his mother, Catherine de Médicis.
2 days ago · Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John ( Norwegian : Karl III Johan ) and before he became royalty in Sweden, his name was Jean-Baptiste Jules ...
