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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 ...
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 siege of Paris of 885–886 was part of a Viking raid on the Seine, in the Kingdom of the West Franks. The siege was the most important event of the reign of Charles the Fat , and a turning point in the fortunes of the Carolingian dynasty and the history of France .
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 After the Duke of Burgundy had withdrawn his support for the English as a result of the Treaty of Arras (1435) , on 13 April 1436 the Parisians opened the city gates to Jean de Dunois and Arthur de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 .
The eight phases of The Song of Roland in one picture.. The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', [a] from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') [1] is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature. [2]
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871, is a 1965 history of the Paris Commune written by Alistair Horne and published by St. Martin's Press.. Horne paired rewritten chapters from The Fall of Paris with illustrations of the Commune for The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871, a coffee table book published by Viking Press for the Commune's centennial in 1971.
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 Battle of Paris (or the Storming of Paris [2]) was fought on 30–31 March 1814 between the Sixth Coalition, consisting of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and the French Empire. After a day of fighting in the suburbs of Paris, the French surrendered on 31 March, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition and forcing Emperor Napoleon to abdicate ...