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    The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and...
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    Year 1569 (MDLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. January 11 — The first recorded lottery in England begins and continues...
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  • Prince of Condé (French: prince de Condé) that was originally assumed around 1557 by the French Protestant leader Louis de Bourbon (1530–1569), uncle of King...
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    third son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici, was born on 27 June 1550 at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was the fifth of ten...
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    Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm. The abbey dates from 682 AD when it was constructed by Benedictine monks from Noirmoutier. In 1569, Protestants attacked...
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    Pierre-Olivier Malherbe (category 1569 births)
    Pierre-Olivier Malherbe (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɔlivje malɛʁb]; 1569–1616) was a French explorer from the city of Vitré. Pierre-Olivier Malherbe...
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    between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795. This state was among the largest, most populated countries of 16th-...
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  • The battle of Orthez was fought during the French Wars of Religion, between August 11 and 14, 1569. Huguenot forces under the leadership of Gabriel de...
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    Angelo Vergecio (category 1569 deaths)
    Βεργέκιος, French: Ange Vergèce; 1505–1569) was a Greek copyist from Crete active in Venice and France. He became a royal scribe for Francis I of France and...
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    The siege of Poitiers was a siege of the French city of Poitiers in summer 1569 as part of the French Wars of Religion. By that time the city was a Catholic...
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    Concino Concini (category 1569 births)
    Marquis d'Ancre (23 November 1569 – 24 April 1617) was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis's...
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    Condom (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃dɔ̃] ; Occitan: Condòm), also known as Condom-en-Armagnac, is a commune in southwestern France in the department of Gers...
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    Jarnac (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    site of the Battle of Jarnac in 1569. It is the birthplace and resting place of François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995. Jarnac is situated...
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  • III) of Navarre Francis of France (1554–1584), count-peer of Beaumont-le-Roger (1569–1584) and duke-peer of Anjou Clermont-en-Beauvaisis county-peerage...
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    Politics of France President of France Renamed from La République En Marche! in September 2022 List on the website of the French Prime Minister (in French)...
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    Emigrants in France, The Slavonic Review, Vol. 5, No. 14 (Dec., 1926), pp. 347-351 (5 pages). Janine Ponty (1985). "Les travailleurs polonais en France, 1919-1939"...
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  • citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature...
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    Étienne Martellange (category 1569 births)
    Martellange (22 December 1569 – 3 October 1641) was a French Jesuit architect and draftsman. He travelled widely in France as an architect for the Jesuit...
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    Francis II (French: François II; 19 January 1544 – 5 December 1560) was King of France from 1559 to 1560. He was also King of Scotland as the husband of...
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  • French general Prince of Condé, a title in the peerage of France, including: Henri, Prince of Condé (1588–1646) Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569) Louis...
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    1569. Henry succeeded to Navarre as Henry III when his mother died in 1572. That same year Catherine de' Medici, mother of King Charles IX of France,...
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    Praslin [fr] (1563–1626), Marshal of France in 1619 Jean-François de La Guiche, Count of La Palice [fr] (1569–1632), Marshal of France in 1619 Honoré d'Albert d'Ailly...
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    François de Coligny d'Andelot (category 1569 deaths)
    d'Andelot de Coligny (18 April 1521 – 27 May 1569) was one of the leaders of French Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion. The son of Gaspard I de...
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    Amiens (redirect from Amiens, France)
    "Amiens" . Les cathédrales de France (in French). Armand Colin – via Wikisource. "Amiens, la cathédrale en couleurs". France Télévisions. 18 June 2011. Archived...
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    Pieter Bruegel the Elder (category 1569 deaths)
    /ˈbruːɡəl/ BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance...
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    by the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye March 1569: Battle of Jarnac June 1569: Battle of La Roche-l'Abeille October 1569: Battle of Moncontour 1572: St...
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  • dynasty (/kəˈpiːʃən/ kə-PEE-shən; French: Capétiens), also known as the House of France (French: La Maison de France), is a dynasty of Frankish origin...
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    Honorat II of Savoy (category Marshals of France)
    enemy by the Parlement de Paris in 1569, his offices were forfeit. As a result, Villars became Admiral of France. In 1570, he succeeded Blaise de Monluc...
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    Frans Pourbus the Younger (category 1569 births)
    Frans Pourbus the Younger or Frans Pourbus (II) (Antwerp, 1569 – Paris, 1622) was a Flemish painter, specialised in portrait painting. He was the third...
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    Enghien (category Pages with French IPA)
    great-grandfather of King Henry IV of France. Mary of Luxembourg brought as her dowry the fief of Condé-en-Brie (Aisne département, France) and the county of Enghien...
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