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Gerbert de Montreuil was a 13th-century French poet from the north of France. He wrote Le Roman de la violette or Gérard de Nevers , [ 1 ] one of the most outstanding medieval poems, famous for its vivid narrative and faithful depiction of contemporary customs.
The Psalter of St Germain is an illuminated manuscript dating from the 6th century. [1] It comes from the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. It is a psalter, in the version of the Vetus Latina, which could date back to the period of the founder of the abbey, Saint Germain of Paris. It is currently kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de ...
Germain (Latin: Germanus; c. 496 – 28 May 576) was the bishop of Paris and is venerated as a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. According to an early biography , he was known as Germain d'Autun , rendered in modern times as the "Father of the Poor".
The Polyptych of Irminon, also known as the Polyptych of Saint-Germain, is an inventory of properties compiled around 823 by Irminon, the abbot of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés in France. The Polyptych describes the possessions of the monastery, located primarily in the Paris region, between the rivers Seine and Eure .
The Oriflamme was mentioned in the 11th-century ballad the Chanson de Roland (vv. 3093–5) as a royal banner, first called Romaine and then Montjoie. [3] According to legend, Charlemagne carried it to the Holy Land in response to a prophecy regarding a knight possessing a golden lance from which flames would burn and drive out the Saracens. [4]
St-Germain is an elderflower liqueur. [1] It is made using the petals of Sambucus nigra from the Savoie region in France, and each bottle is numbered with the year the petals were collected. Petals are collected annually in the spring over a period of three to four weeks, and are often transported by bicycle to collection points to avoid ...
Antoine-Louis Decrest, comte de Saint-Germain, Count de Saint-Germain and of the Empire (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan lwi dəkʁɛ də sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃]; born 8 December 1761 in Paris, died 4 October 1835 in Neuilly) was a French soldier of the French Revolutionary Wars, who later rose to the top military rank of General of Division, taking part to the Napoleonic Wars as a commander of ...
Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (15 April 1707 – 15 January 1778), French general, was born on 15 April 1707, at the Château of Vertamboz. [ 1 ] Educated at Jesuit schools, he intended to enter the priesthood, but at the last minute obtained from Louis XV an appointment as sub-lieutenant.