Born in Valladolid in 1601 - Died in Paris in 1666. Queen of France. Daughter of Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, she received, in Habsburg fashion, more education than instruction when she was married, aged fourteen, to Louis XIII, her junior by five. days. Justified by the needs of t
La Rochelle suffered two sieges of particular historical importance.The first siege took place on the occasion of Saint-Barthélemy. Worried and irritated, the Protestants who made up almost the entire population rose up against royal authority. A long negotiation is engaged in vain. In December 1572
Edict signed by Louis XIV suppressing all the advantages granted to Protestants by Henri IV. Louis XIV, considering that the reformed religions jeopardize the unity of France and that the Huguenots practice too zealous proselytism, revokes, on October 17, 1685, the edict of 1598. This decision is t
MARGUERITE OF FRANCE or VALOIS (known as Queen Margot)(Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1553 - Paris, 1615.) Third daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Medici. She had already embarked on the path of the most unbridled gallantry when her mother and her brother Charles IX married her, despite the difference o
Who lived there? - PrisonersWho put God before the king.There, formerly, women, mothers,Die to keep the faith. [1] The Tower of Constance and its prisoners While the men were condemned to the galleys, and the clandestine pastors to the stake, the women defying the prohibitions of the King of Fran
On the night of August 23 to 24, 1572, in Paris, the Kings Council took a dramatic decision:Catherine de Medici, queen mother, supported by the Guise party and by the brother of King Henri dAnjou, leader of the Catholics, convinces the easily influenced Charles IX, 22, that the leaders of the Huguen
http://www.museedudesert.com/article5673.html For almost two centuries, Reformed Calvinists lived in the kingdom of France and were persecuted there until Henry IV signed the Edict of Nantes in 1598 and relative peace took hold. However, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1
The Edict of Tolerance of Nantes, known as the Edict of Nantes, was signed on April 30, 1598 by King Henry IV, known as Henry the Great. This edict granted the rights of worship to the Protestants of France, also called Huguenots, and no longer authorized persecution against them. But after a time
Henri Ier de Guise dit le Balafré, born on December 31, 1550 and assassinated on December 23, 1588 at the Château de Blois, was the leader of the ultra-Catholic party during the Wars of Religion in France. He was first Prince of Joinville, then Duke of Guise (1563) and Peer of France, Count of Eu an
In France, we call religious wars a series of eight conflicts, which devastated the kingdom of France in the second half of the 16th century and where Catholics and Protestants opposed each other. The development of humanism during the Renaissance, of a thought that was both critical and individual
Gaspard de Coligny (February 16, 1519 in Châtillon-sur-Loing-August 24, 1572 in Paris) Count of Coligny, Baron of Beaupont and Beauvoir, Montjuif, Roissiat, Chevignat and other places, Lord of Châtillon, Admiral of France. He is one of the best known members of the illustrious house of Coligny. He
Promulgated by Henri IV on April 13, 1598, the edict officially closed the Wars of Religion*, which had effectively ended since the kings conversion to the Catholic religion.The Edict of Nantes, inspired in part from the Edict of Poitiers signed by Henri III the day after the Peace of Bergerac (1577
The King of England, George II (father of the Duke of Cumberland), has every reason to be dissatisfied. Certain of the success of the allied army, he had already taken the road to the continent when he learned of the disaster of Fontenoy due, in large part, to the languor of his Dutch allies. There
Its two in the afternoon; the Dutch, fortunately, did not move, and the English column harassed by the French charges has, for a few moments, stopped its rapid progress. Hope changed sides... Around the king of France stands a council; the third phase - final and decisive - is taking place.While
The situation of the French troops seems desperate. The Marshal of Saxe, greatly concerned, asked the king to withdraw with the Dauphin, fearing the imminence of a total overflow. Louis XV, confident - he was also a very good man of war - replies:I am sure that he (Saxony) will do what is necessary.
Shortly before 6 a.m., as the night mists began to dissipate, the Duke of Cumberland gives the order to his troops to move on Fontenoy, while the Dutch will attack Antoing... the battle of Fontenoy is engaged. Immediately, the allies set off. While the Dutch were decimated by French grapeshot (they
This is a gently hilly stretch (but this day -there wet, muddy), slightly sloping, which represents little more than a quadrilateral of one kilometer by two; it is in this relatively restricted space that everything will be played out.Marshal de Saxe has deployed his men from Antoing to beyond the w
French victory having opposed, in the current Belgian province of Hainaut, the armies of the English, Hanoverians, Dutch (and some Austrians), to those of King Louis XV.Traditionally regarded as the great military success of the Maréchal de Saxe* — although, without in any way wishing to diminish th
The Second Siege of Vienna (July 14-September 12, 1683) marks an important turning point in European history by its outcome with terrible repercussions for the Ottoman Empire It was lifted on September 12 after the Battle of Kahlenberg, won by the Christians over the Turks. The Polish King John III
Located in the Ardennes massif, between the Sambre and the Meuse, in the district of Mézières, Rocroi is only a simple farm or a village until the day when François I decides to fortify it. In 1555, the small square was besieged by the Imperials and later, during the Wars of Religion, Catholics and
The Great Pyramid of Cheops, Giza, near Cairo • ISTOCKPHOTO L dimensions Its original height was 146.6 m; each side measured about 230 m. It is estimated that 230,000 limestone blocks were required to build it. L e weight and volume Its volume is estimated at 2,521,000 m3 , and its weight at 5,
The Pernambuco Revolution was a separatist and republican movement that broke out in Recife in March 1817 and expressed the dissatisfaction of the local elites. The Pernambucan Revolution of 1817 it was a separatist movement – the last one that took place in the colonial period – of a republican
To exploit this opportunity, it would be essential to concentrate our efforts in this zone where the German device seems to yield and to reinforce our infantry there to conquer the crests between which passes the small road of Bresse. But a real fatality seems to be dogging our undertakings, because
The Battle of Emsdorf in Hesse would remain an unknown, small-scale conflict lost in the depths of History if something unique did not happen during it. The battle pitted two equal forces of about 3,000 men on each side. In 1760 the Seven Years War was in full swing. In western Germany British f