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- Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
2: ...[[1572]], wife of [[Antoine de Bourbon|Antoine de Bourbon, duke of Vendome]] and mother of [[Henry IV of Fr...
6: ...rance|Henry II]] Jeanne was married to Antoine de Bourbon, "first prince of the blood," who would become he...
12: ...French Wars of Religion]] in [[1562]]. Antoine de Bourbon chose to support the Catholics, but was mortally ...
20: ... [[October 20]] [[1548]] she married [[Antoine de Bourbon]].
28: * [[Catherine de Bourbon]] ([[1559]]-[[1604]]). Married [[Henry I, Duke of... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
6: ...nce]] (1601-1643), part of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon Dynasty]]. They would have two sons, Louis (the [...
8: ...rt, Anne overcame the revolt led by [[Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond靝. In [[1651]], when her son Lou... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ... abandoned. Marguerite was made to marry Henri de Bourbon (later Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV...
8: ...ugust 18]], [[1572]], Marguerite married Henri de Bourbon, who had become King of Navarre on the death of h...
12: ...sband lived a scandalous life in [[Pau]]. Both openly kept lovers and quarrelled frequently. After an ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...therine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened monarch]]."
13: ...erine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[Peter the Great]], Catherine scorned force a...
17: ...n, to counter the power of the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]]-[[Habsburg]] League. When it became apparent th...
25: ...e of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. The Russian navy, command...
33: Catherine subscribed to [[the Enlightenment]] and considered herself a "philosopher... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
15: ...r was the future Mary II. Anne and Mary were the only children of the Duke and Duchess of York to surv...
26: ...s Anne, [[heir apparent]] to the Throne, was the only individual remaining in the line of succession e...
35: ...1st Baron Godolphin]]. The Whigs—who were, unlike the Tories, vigorous supporters of the War of ...
38: ...right to own property in England into jeopardy), unless Scotland either repealed the Act of Security o...
47: ... Whigs could not bear to see a [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] on the Spanish Throne. In the House of Commons,... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
15: ..., the dukes of Berry and Burgundy, the duchess of Bourbon and others. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
24: ... -- fueled by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. An...
28: She was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941.
42: ... live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Rose (15436 bytes)
25: ...xception of ''[[Rosa sericea]]'' which often has only four), usually white or pink, in a few species y...
29: ...vily browsed by [[deer]]. A few species of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points.
67: The [[rose hip|hips]] are sometimes eaten, mainly for their vitamin C content. They are usually pr...
79: ...'''Bourbon''' - They originated on l'Île de Bourbon (now called [[Réunion]]). Probably the res...
80: ...and, they were derived to a great extent from the Bourbons. Repeat-flowering. Examples: 'Ferdinand Pichard'... - Spain (36498 bytes)
58: ...have included the [[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the pre...
85: ...alled — the French Bourbons (see [[House of Bourbon]]) — that a centralized Spanish state was e...
116: ...s with the ETA with no political concessions and only if it gives up all its weapons. PSOE, CiU, ERC, ...
118: ... constitution, making Spain the first and so far only country to approve the constitution via referend...
161: Mainland Spain is dominated by high plateaus and mounta... - List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
21: ...is Henry II, Prince of Condé|Louis Henri, duc de Bourbon]] - a Prince of the Blood, son of the Prince de C...
39: *[[Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé|Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé]] - Prince of the Blood, a lead...
41: ... François II, Prince of Conti|Louis François de Bourbon, prince de Conti]] - Prince of the Blood, briefly...
51: *[[Denis Diderot]] - [[the Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] author and [[atheist]] philosopher, i...
57: ...hien]] - a Prince of the Blood, son of the Duc de Bourbon. He was kidnapped and executed by Napoleon. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...he [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France]].
26: ... the 1790s when about 1.5 million Frenchmen were enlisted. In total, about 2.8 million Frenchmen fough...
28: ...ome countries, deliberate exaggeration to ensure enlistment targets were met. Despite this there clear...
45: ...d of the French Army of Italy. It took Bonaparte only a month to defeat Piedmont and push its Austrian...
47: ... Campo Formio]]. The United Kingdom remained the only power still at war with France by 1797. - Sicily (18450 bytes)
43: ... loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messina, S.p.A. in...
47: ... served by national and international flights (mainly European) from to [[Palermo International Airpor...
66: ...ties to [[Carthage]], which was on the African mainland not far from the southwest corner of the islan...
80: ... way to union ([[1734]]) with the [[Bourbon house|Bourbon]]-ruled kingdom of [[Naples]] as the kingdom of t...
82: ...848]] of abortive revolutionary movements against Bourbon denial of constitutional government, Sicily was j... - Palermo (10618 bytes)
16: ...s unification ([[1734]]) with the [[Bourbon house|Bourbon]]-ruled kingdom of [[Naples]] as the kingdom of t...
25: ...ely from the "sacking of Palermo", as it was commonly called. New parts of town appeared almost out of...
66: *[http://www.palermonline.com.ar Palermo in Buenos Aires] - Samuel de Champlain (12497 bytes)
15: ...the twenty-five people who stayed for the winter only 8 survived, most having died of [[scurvy]] and s...
19: ...y of the men headed back, leaving Champlain with only 2 Frenchmen and 60 natives.
27: ...he [[Lachine Rapids]] with them, a feat that had only been done once before by a European.
29: ...ober 8]], [[1612]], Louis XIII named [[Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons]] his [[lieutenant-general]] i...
59: ...ting that he had rebuilt on the ruins of Quebec, enlarged its fortifications, constructed another habi... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...s a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[phi...
16: ...iful and ambitious [[Anne-Louise-B�n�dicte de Bourbon-Cond�, duchesse du Maine|duchesse du Maine]]. I...
84: ...ion of ''Akakia'' confiscated in Prussia was the only one. Alas! Voltaire had sent copies away; others...
106: ...Calas affair]], and we can but refer here to the only less famous cases of [[Pierre-Paul Sirven|Sirven...
131: ...cally, despite Voltaire's comic talent, he wrote only one good comedy, ''Nanine'', but many good trage...
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