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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
1: [[Image:JeanneIII.jpg|frame|right|Jeanne d'Albret]]
2: ...on, duke of Vendome]] and mother of [[Henry IV of France]].
4: ...ew up at the French court. When she was thirteen, Francis married her to the Duke of Cleves, but this ...
6: ...rince of the blood," who would become heir to the French throne if the Valois line died out.
12: ...he siege of [[Rouen]]. Jeanne's son [[Henry IV of France|Henry]] now became "first prince of the blood... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: ...e notorious as the mistress of King [[Henry II of France|Henri II]].
3: ...ho served the court of [[Francis I of France|King Fran篩s I]], she gained the title of Duchesse de Va...
5: ...iane, Duchess d'Angoulꭥ (1538-1619) who married Fran篩s, Duke of Montmorency.
7: [[Image:DianedePoitiers.jpg|left|frame|Diane de Poitiers]]
11: ...en Henri entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewels of France, had the [[Chateau d'Anet]] built for her, an... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...ay 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confuse...
4: ...rles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...ter Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jean...
10: ...atherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Ba...
12: ...itle of queen. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs. - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
1: '''Veronica Franco''' ([[1546]]-[[1591]]) was a [[poet]] and [[c...
3: ...e even had a brief liaison with King Henri III of France. She was listed as one of the foremost courte...
5: An educated woman, Veronica Franco also wrote two volumes of poetry: ''Terze rim...
7: While prosperous in her dual career, Veronica Franco's life was not without hardship. In 1575, a ...
9: The life and times of Veronica Franco were made into the 1998 movie, "Dangerous Bea... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...at [[Bessines-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suz...
8: ...f Valadon would be Renoir's ''Dance at Bougival'' from [[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''Ci...
12: ...rth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of ...
24: ..."[[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
11: ...]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Italian...
67: * [[From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]] (1973) - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in French Catholic convents. To support herself, she co...
8: ...us productions. One of the earliest was a reading from ''Ph褲e'' by [[Jean Racine]], at [[Thomas Edis...
14: Sarah Bernhardt was made a member of France's [[Legion of Honor]] in 1914.
16: ...s buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France. - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ... Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the [[Western Roman Empire]] ([[5th ...
6: ...ern European historians. That term has now fallen from favor, partly to avoid the entrenched stereotyp...
8: ... lost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise o...
12: ...oon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction between the cult...
14: ...ying cultural influence, preserving its selection from Latin learning, maintaining the art of writing,... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: Pipe organs range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pi...
11: <!--This section is the target of a link from the "organ pipe" article. If you update the tex...
15: ...ue organ]], the [[English romantic organ]], the [[French classical organ]], the [[symphonic organ]] an...
27: The word ''organ'' originates from the [[Latin]] word "[[organum (musical instrume...
31: ... Hungary (the ancient [[Pannonia]]) a Roman organ from the 3rd century AD was found. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
1: ...state in [[Europe]], which borders [[Germany]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and [[Liechtenstein...
13: ... = [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Romansh]]|
30: currency = [[Swiss franc]]|currency_code=CHF|
46: ...e]] in [[1499]] amounted to de facto independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
54: ...en régime''). In [[1798]], armies of the [[French Revolution]] conquered Switzerland and in [[1... - Luxembourg (11321 bytes)
1: ...the continental [[European Union]], bordered by [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Belgium]].<br>
15: ...'''[[Official languages]]''' || [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Luxembourgis...
48: ...sup>1</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[Franc|Luxembourg franc]].</small>
53: ...]], [[Habsburg]]s, [[Hohenzollern]]s and [[France|French]]. Even after the [[Treaty of Paris (1815)|de...
101: ...on of three official languages: [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Luxemburg... - Koala (10686 bytes)
20: ...t part of the bear family. The word "koala" comes from an [[aboriginal]] word meaning "does not drink"...
22: ...re found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near [[Adelaide]] to the base of the [[Cape Yor...
26: ...ales]] as ''P. cinereus cinereus''. The variation from one form to another is continuous, and there ar...
30: ...hildren]] delight in imitating) that can be heard from almost a [[kilometre]] away during the breeding...
35: ...nlarged to extract the maximum amount of nutrient from the poor quality diet. Much of this is done thr... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
4: ...]], Thebes was known in the [[Egyptian language]] from the end of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingd...
6: ... ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece with thi...
27: ... of 7 vols. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut fran硩s d’arch鯬ogie orientale du Caire. (Re...
31: ...e Anchor Bible Dictionary'', edited by David Noel Freedman. Vol. 6 of 6 vols. New York: Doubleday. 442...
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