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Henriette de La Guiche, the daughter of Philibert, built the stables for her second husband, Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, comte d'Alais , colonel général of the king's cavalry, governor of Provence, and a grandson of Charles IX of France. Alais had also inherited the Château d'Écouen. These royal connections account for the monumentality of ...
Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët: Intercommunality: ... (French pronunciation: [le lɔʒ maʁʃi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
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".
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor. Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec. [1]
Foulques du Merle - (1239 - 1314) was Seigneur of Gacé and Bellou-en-Houlme, and Baron of Le Merlerault, Briouze and Messei. [10] Charles Auguste de Goÿon (1647-1729), a French diplomat and soldier who was the Count of Gacé. [11]
Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.
The present Château de La Roche-Guyon [4] was built in the 12th century, controlling a river crossing of the Seine, itself one of the routes to and from Normandy; [5] The Abbé Suger described its grim aspect: "At the summit of a steep promontory, dominating the bank of the great river Seine, rises a frightful castle without title to nobility, called La Roche.
Chateau de la Ventrouze a sixteenth century chateau surrounded by a moat, it was registered as a monument in 1979. [ 5 ] Sainte-Madeleine Church a fifteenth century church, registered as a Monument historique in 1981.