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Franciscus van den Enden, in later life also known as 'Affinius' (Latinized form of 'Van den Enden') [ 1][ 2][ 3] ( c. 5 February 1602 – 27 November 1674) was a Flemish former Jesuit, [ 4] Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher, and plotter against Louis XIV of France. Born in Antwerp, where he had a truncated career as a Jesuit ...
The Fifth Republic is France's third-longest-lasting political regime, after the hereditary, feudal monarchy of the Ancien Régime and the parliamentary Third Republic ( 4 September 1870 – 10 July 1940 ). The Fifth Republic will overtake the Third Republic as the second-longest French regime and the longest-lasting French republic on 8 August ...
Charlemagne returned to Francia to greet his newborn twin sons, Louis and Lothair, who were born while he was in Spain; [119] Lothair died in infancy. [120] Again, Saxons had seized on the king's absence to raid. Charlemagne sent an army to Saxony in 779 [121] while he held assemblies, legislated, and addressed a famine in Francia. [122]
Germany portal. History portal. v. t. e. The Kingdom of the Franks ( Latin: Regnum Francorum ), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle ...
The 2024 Tour de France was the 111th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Florence, Italy, on 29 June, and finished in Nice, France, on 21 July. The race did not finish in (or near) Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Tadej Pogačar won the general classification ...
Belgium. In medieval historiography, West Francia ( Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks ( Latin: regnum Francorum occidentalium) constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.
Arms of Van den Eynde (above) and Carafa (below) Elisabeth van den Eynde, Princess of Belvedere (also spelled Vandeneinden, [2] Vandeneynden, [3] Van den Eynden, [4] and Van den Einden [5]) and suo jure Baroness of Gallicchio and Missanello [1] (14 April 1674 – 14 February 1743) was an Italian noblewoman.
2023 Tour de France. The 2023 Tour de France was the 110th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Bilbao, Spain, on 1 July and ended with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris, on 23 July. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard ( Team Jumbo–Visma) won the general classification for the second year in a row.