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The site had been purchased well before 1680 [1] by Louis XIV's first cousin Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier, "La Grande Mademoiselle".She laid out 40,000 livres for the property, and swept away an existing corps de logis, according to her Mémoires, and had a new house built to plans of Jacques Gabriel—"who made my house to my fashion" Mlle Montpensier noted, "without ...
One part of the Hôtel des Tournelles, named Logis du Roi, had an entrance decorated with the French coat of arms, painted by Jean de Boulogne, known as Jean de Paris. In 1464, Louis XI built a gallery there which connected this house to the Hôtel-Neuf of Madame d'Étampes, across the rue Saint-Antoine.
Construction was continued in 1584 by his son, Philibert de La Guiche, governor of Lyonnais and grand maître de l'artillerie from 1578 to 1596. [1] In the 17th century the château was completed by the addition of two wings perpendicular to the corps de logis with pavilions at the far ends, forming an interior courtyard opening to the north ...
Maréchal des logis (French for 'marshal of lodgings') is a sub-officer rank used by some units of the French Armed Forces.It is traditionally a cavalry unit rank. There are three distinct ranks of maréchal des logis, which are generally the equivalents of sergeant ranks (although they generally have less responsibility than a British or Commonwealth sergeant).
Jules-Louis Bolé de Chamlay (1650 [1] –1719) was a French soldier and diplomat.. He was born in a noble family; his father was procureur of the Paris Parlement. Chamlay had a classical education, and the fought in the French army during the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678).
CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie: Government • Mayor ... [le lɔʒ maʁʃi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Below is a list of the seneschals (sénéchal de Normandie) and governors of Normandy (gouverneur de Normandie) during its time as a French province. [33] Guillaume Crespin or du Bec-Crespin, lord of Bec and Mauny; 1451–1460: Pierre de Brézé, lord of the Varenne and Brissac, count of Maulévrier; 1460–1464: Louis d'Estouteville
Tourouvre et les Juchereau –Un chapitre de l'émigration percheronne au Canada, Contribution No 13. Société canadienne de Généalogie (Québec) / Association Perche-Canada. perche-quebec.com (Online). "Jean Guyon (1592 Tourouvre - 1663 Beauport), Arbre de parenté avec Céline Dion". PRDH (Online) (February 2017). "The Pioneers".