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- Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ... (circa [[1365]] - circa [[1430]]) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]] and was one of a number of female ...
9: ...d office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴi...
13: ...ard II of England|Richard II]] with [[Isabella of France]] (1396), took her elder son, [[Jean du Caste...
15: ..., where she enjoyed the favour of [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]], the dukes of Berry and Burgundy...
21: ...vertus'' contains details of domestic life in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by mor... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...Events of the Millennium by LIFE Magazine. Apart from Gutenberg, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Laurens ...
8: ... using "rag" [[paper]] introduced into [[Europe]] from [[China]] by way of [[Muslims]], who had a pape...
12: ... books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]]) in commercial [[scriptori...
14: ... printing presses an industry requiring a licence from the Catholic Church (an idea rejected in the en...
16: ...vention in 1453, towns from Hungary to Spain, and from Italy to Britain had functional printing presse... - Deer (6737 bytes)
14: ...Cervidae'''. A number of broadly similar animals, from related families within the [[order (biology)|o...
18: ...duced into [[New Zealand]] in early 1900s (a gift from United States President [[Theodore Roosevelt]])...
20: Deer differ from other ruminants in that they have [[antler]]s i...
26: ...hoots, young leaves, fresh grasses, soft twigs, [[fruit]], [[fungi]], and [[lichen]]s.
32: ...eer, and how they can be hunted with Dogs," taken from "Livre du Roy Modus," created in the [[14th Cen... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
7: ...and paint, and mastered the properties of colours from [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. Later on, Hubert adm...
9: ...y of 100 [[livre tournois|livres]] per annum, and from that time till his death Jan van Eyck remained ...
11: He was frequently employed in missions of trust; and follow...
24: ...ss firm than in Hubert's panels. Jan only differs from his brother in being less masculine and less st...
32: From first to last Van Eyck retains his ability in p... - Charlemagne (11466 bytes)
2: ...January 28]], [[814]]) was king of the [[Franks]] from [[771]] to [[814]], nominally King of the [[Lom...
5: ...lemagne was born out of wedlock, and he inherited from his parents. Another date is given in the ''Ann...
8: Arguably the founder of the [[Frankish Empire]] in [[Western Europe]], Charlemagne...
12: ...]], leaving Charlemagne the leader of a reunified Frankish kingdom. Charlemagne was engaged in almost ...
28: ...hree kingdoms would be the foundations of later [[France]] and the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel... - Pheasants (5383 bytes)
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