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3 days ago · Saint Germaine Cousin was born in 1579 of humble parents at Pibrac, a village about ten miles from Toulouse and died in her native place in 1601. From her birth she seemed marked out for suffering; she came into the world with a deformed hand and the disease of scrofula, and, while yet an infant, lost her mother.
5 days ago · Dans cette église, Jean-Sébastien Bach découvre pendant son enfance la musique d’orgue. En effet, l’organiste titulaire n’est autre que le cousin germain de son père, Johann. Christoph Bach. C’est grâce à ce cousin que le père de Jean-Sébastien avait pu être nommé à Eisenach comme musicien municipal.
2 days ago · James II and VII (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his reign is now ...
4 days ago · The Church of Saint Germain des Prés, originally built in the sixth century, is the oldest church of Paris. Formerly the church of an enormous Benedictine monastery the Romanesque lines of the earlier interior are still recognizable beneath the paint of 19th‐century frescoes.
1 day ago · William the Conqueror William is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry during the Battle of Hastings, lifting his helmet to show that he is still alive. King of England Reign 25 December 1066 – 9 September 1087 Coronation 25 December 1066 Predecessor Edgar Ætheling (uncrowned) Harold II (crowned) Successor William II Duke of Normandy Reign 3 July 1035 – 9 September 1087 Predecessor Robert I ...
3 days ago · Italian contemporary translation of the proclamation of the peace, made at St. Germain en Laye, 15 Aug. 1514. Entered under date 4 Sept . 1514, as received by way of Rome after the publication of the agreement.
3 days ago · Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
