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    The Tour de Nesle (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də nɛl]) was one of the four large guard towers on the old city wall of Paris, constructed at the beginning...
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    The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret, Blanche, and Joan, the daughters-in-law of King...
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  • La Tour de Nesle is a drama in five acts and nine tableaux, based on the circumstances of the Tour de Nesle Affair. It was written by Frédéric Gaillardet [fr]...
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    His final year saw a scandal amongst the royal family, known as the Tour de Nesle affair, in which King Philip's three daughters-in-law were accused of...
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    The Tour du coin, Right Bank, near the Louvre (Quai François Mitterrand) The Tour de Nesle, Left Bank (Quai de Conti) On the east side: The Tour Barbeau...
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  • was a Norman knight implicated in a French royal scandal known as the Tour de Nesle affair. In the court of Philip IV of France, Philip of Aunay was the...
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    father by Grand Chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny. Louis' first wife, Margaret, implicated in the Tour de Nesle affair, was found guilty of infidelity...
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    former location of the Hôtel de Nesle. According to historians, an underground passage going to the Tour de Nesle existed at de number 13 of the street and...
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  • La Tour de Nesle) is a 1955 French / Italian drama film directed by Abel Gance. Pierre Brasseur - Jehan Buridan Silvana Pampanini - Marguerite de Bourgogne...
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    youth, doubts regarding her paternity (her mother was involved in the Tour de Nesle Affair), and the Estates General's determination that women should be...
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    with Edward to garner further French support, which resulted in the Tour de Nesle affair. The journey was a pleasant one, with many festivities, although...
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    castrated and beheaded, and their bodies were exposed on a gibbet (Tour de Nesle Affair). The extreme severity of their punishment was due to the lèse...
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  • Martyr, England, 978 The Becket controversy, England, 1163–1170 The Tour de Nesle affair, France, 1314 King Edward IV of England's marriage to Elizabeth...
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    husband's reign due to the Tour de Nesle Affair. Coat of arms unknown Imprisoned during her husband's reign due to the Tour de Nesle Affair. Coat of arms unknown...
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    Early in 1314, Margaret was caught in an alleged act of adultery in the Tour de Nesle affair. Her sister-in-law Isabella of France was a witness against her...
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    A plaque on the northern wall of the Institut de France shows the ancient location of the Tour de Nesle Académie Française (French Academy, concerning...
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    four towers were 25 meters high and 10 m in diameter. The tour du coin look like the tour de Nesle, which is best known. Like on this one, there was, a cylindrical...
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    increased, and thus he made few films. The historical melodrama La Tour de Nesle (1954) was his first film in colour, and it provoked some revival of...
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    ponte dei sospiri (1921, dir. Domenico Gaido) Buridan, le héros de la tour de Nesle (1923, dir. Pierre Marodon) Triboulet (1923, dir. Febo Mari) Nostradamus...
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    particulier), which was located on the Quai de Nevers (now the Quai de Conti), just east of the former Tour de Nesle on the site of the present day Hôtel des...
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    the Direct Capetians (Capétiens directs), the House of France (la maison de France), or simply the Capets. Historians in the 19th century came to apply...
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    IV. Jeanne became Queen of France after having been involved in the Tour de Nesle Affair. In that same affair, Blanche was found guilty of adultery and...
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    Jacques Weber, Théâtre de Nice 1996 : La Tour de Nesle by Roger Planchon after Alexandre Dumas, directed by Roger Planchon, Théâtre de Nice, TNP Villeurbanne...
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    Louvre fortress on the Right Bank and the Tour de Nesle on the Left Bank. In the later Middle Ages, the Palais de le Cité was the financial and judicial...
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  • paternal aunts, Blanche and Margaret of Burgundy, were implicated in the Tour de Nesle affair. The marriage of her parents was successful enough for her father...
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    was a very serious offence in medieval Europe, as shown during the Tour de Nesle Affair, as a result of which both Isabella's former French sisters-in-law...
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  • the daughters-in-law of the king were discovered (also known as the Tour de Nesle Affair). Somewhat neglected by their husbands, the princesses entertained...
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    Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, in 1308, but Blanche was caught up in the Tour de Nesle scandals of 1314 and imprisoned. After Charles assumed the throne he...
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    knights, upon the testimony of their sister-in-law Isabella, in the Tour de Nesle affair. Joan was thought to have known of the affairs, and was placed...
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    Nesle (French pronunciation: [nɛl]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Nesle is situated at the junction of the...
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