(Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de)(Lussac-les-Châteaux, 1640 - Bourbon-lArchambault, 1707.) Favorite of Louis XIV. Daughter of Gabriel de Rochechouart, Prince of Tonnay-Cnarente, Duke of Mortemart. She is called, at Court, Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente. Blonde beauty i
Prior to World War II the Yugoslav Royal Air Force procured around 50 British Hawker Fury I and II biplane fighters. Others were powered by a Rolls Royce Kestrel XVI engine which gave them a top speed of 405 km per hour (x .a.h.) making them the fastest aircraft of the type and others had Hispano-So
On July 27, 28 and 23, 1830, the Trois Glorieuses took place in Paris:this was a revolutionary movement that led to the fall of Charles X, a king who wanted a return to absolutism and who was illiberal (against individual freedoms). The July Monarchy is set up following these revolutionary days. The
In the 15thth century, the wealth of the clergy often leads a corrupt life and contributes to the weakness of a Church which has not been able to reform itself. Among other things, the scandal of indulgences provoked in 1517 the beginning of a Protestant Reformation carried by Luther and which sprea