Additional Numismatic Value: $1025-$2480 USD
Total: $1266-$2721 USD
Additional Numismatic Value: $1025-$2480 USD
Total: $1266-$2721 USD
Designed to guard palaces and headquarters, the elite Gendarmerie Legion was formed on July 29, 1804. It had a staff, two squadrons of two companies each and a half-battalion of two foot companies, which provided a total strength of 632 gendarmes. Elite Guardsman From 1806, there were only the
Turgot the liberal From 1761 to her coming to power in 1774, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot worked, as intendant of Limousin, to modernize one of the most deprived regions of the kingdom. In August 1774, the appointment of this encyclopaedist, precursor of liberalism, to the post of Comptroller General
The massacre of Protestants at Wassy under the aegis of the Duke of Guise triggers, in France, the 1st March 1562, a real war of religion. The legitimate heir under Salic law (which contains the rules of succession to the throne of France), Henry IV, who was first a Protestant leader, must, to ascen
The Celts heralded the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark time of winter with the ancestral festival of Samhain. According to their belief, the gateway to the Otherworld opens to Samhain. The border between the realm of the dead and the realm of the living is particularly thin o