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John II (French: Jean II; 26 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was King of France from 1350 until his death in 1364. When he came to power, France faced several disasters: the Black Death, which killed between a third and a half of its population; popular revolts known as Jacqueries; free companies (Grandes Compagnies) of routiers who plundered the ...
Jean: 15–19 November 1316 (4 days) Posthumous son of Louis X King for the four days he lived; youngest and shortest undisputed monarch in French history [o] Philip V "the Tall" Philippe: 20 November 1316 [xxv] – 3 January 1322 (5 years, 1 month and 14 days) Son of Philip IV and uncle of John I 1293/4 – 3 January 1322 (aged 28–29)
July 15: The astronomer and mathematician Jean Sylvain Bailly is named mayor of Paris, and Lafayette is appointed Commander of the newly formed National Guard. July 16: The King reinstates Necker as finance minister and withdraws royal troops from the center of the city. The new elected Paris assembly votes the destruction of the Bastille fortress.
This list can help you read all the 'Outlander' books by Diana Gabaldon in the correct order as season 7 part 2 premieres on Starz on November 22.
Clovis I, the king of the Franks, makes Paris his capital. [6] [4] (Some sources give the date 508 [5]) About 540-550 Construction of the Saint-Étienne cathedral, predecessor to Notre-Dame de Paris, begins. [5] 543 Founding of the Basilica of Saint-Vincent, by Childebert I, the King of Paris. The Basilica becomes the burial place for the first ...
Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans (born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the House of Orléans.Jean is the senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and thus according to the Orléanists the legitimate claimant to the defunct throne of France as Jean IV. [2]
The Book of Chuang Tzu; The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan; The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usama ibn Munqidh; The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione; The Book of Dede Korkut; The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges; The Book of Margery Kempe ...
Les Rougon-Macquart (French pronunciation: [le ʁuɡɔ̃ makaʁ]) is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola.Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during ...