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Gaston Paris was born under the July Monarchy at Avenay (), the son of Paulin Paris (1800–1881), an important French scholar of medieval French literature.In his childhood, Gaston learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at the University of Bonn (1856), in the ...
Gaston d'Orléans at the age of five, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Gaston was born Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston of Orléans (Portuguese: Luís Filipe Maria Fernando Gastão de Orleães) on 28 April 1842 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, at the Château de Neuilly.
The Vikings arrived in Paris on Easter Sunday, 29 March, [8] entered the city and plundered it. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] During the siege, a plague broke out in their camp. The Norse had been exposed to the Christian religion , and after first praying to the Norse gods, they undertook a fast, acting on the advice of one of their Christian prisoners, and the ...
The Bastille was built in response to a threat to Paris during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. [1] Prior to the Bastille, the main royal castle in Paris was the Louvre, in the west of the capital, but the city had expanded by the middle of the 14th century and the eastern side was now exposed to an English attack. [1]
In 1432 and 1434, further attempts were made to open the gates of Paris to the forces of Charles VII, but were prevented by Parisians. After the Duke of Burgundy had withdrawn his support for the English as a result of the Treaty of Arras (1435) , on 13 April 1436 the Parisians opened the city gates to Jean de Dunois and Arthur de Richemont .
Richard Gere caused another wild moment on the Today show just one day after Cher dropped an F-bomb live on air. Gere, 75, sat down with Savannah Guthrie to chat about his new TV show, The Agency ...
Born in Paris, [1] Gaston Galliffet entered the army in 1848 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in 1853. He served with distinction at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1855, in the Italian War of 1859, and in Algeria in 1860, after which for a time he served on the personal staff of the emperor, Napoleon III.
BALTIMORE — The wife of one of the construction workers who survived the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse says it’s a miracle he is alive as he doesn’t know how to swim.