Château de Chinon is a château located on the bank of the river Vienne in Chinon, France. It was founded by Theobald I, Count of Blois. In the 11th century...
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started in 1529. Initially called the Château de Boulogne, the new building quickly became known as the Château de Madrid, taking its name from the Royal...
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Romanesque art. Erlande-Brandenburg was son of the physician Gilbert Brandenburg and grandson of writer and poet Albert-Jacques Brandenburg. He attended school...
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The Château des Matignon (also named the ‘château de Torigni’) is a former princely residence located in Torigni-sur-Vire in the Manche department, Normandy...
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She was born at the Hôtel de Condé in Paris, the city residence of the Prince of Condé when not at court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye outside...
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The Château de Montbéliard (Montbeliard Castle), also known as the Château des ducs de Württemberg (Castle of the Dukes of Württemberg) is a fortress located...
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Brandenburg-Schwedt (5 January 1673 in Sparnberg – 23 July 1695 in Casale Monferrato) was a Hohenzollern prince and a titular Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt...
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which the ruin of Château d'Ochsenstein stands Schlossberg, a hill near Riquewihr in Alsace (France) on which the ruin of Château de Bilstein stands Schlossberg...
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Medieval Louvre Castle (category Ruined castles in Île-de-France)
Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), was a castle (French: château fort) built by Philip...
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September 2023. "Récital Samuel Mariño : Sopranista at the Château de Versailles Spectacles". Château de Versailles Spectacles. Retrieved 3 September 2023. Kenyon...
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Jean III de Schulemberg, comte de Montejeu[x] (ca 1597/98 – 25 March 1671), of distant Prussian origin, was born at the château de Guincourt, son of Jean...
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Castle (redirect from Château-fort)
site, such as Chinon, Château de Coucy and Château Gaillard. When it was built in 992 in France the stone tower at Château de Langeais was 16 metres...
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from the original on 2016-12-25. Retrieved 2017-07-20. "Centre de recherche du château de Versailles - Network of European Royal Residences". chateauversailles-recherche...
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Pierre-François, Marquess of Rougé (redirect from Pierre-François, Marquis de Rougé)
Rougé. He was most famous for having signed the war treaty "Convention de Brandenburg" in the name of King Louis XV. He fought in the War of the Polish Succession...
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Sanssouci (category Castles in Brandenburg)
Sanssouci is little more than a large, single-storey villa—more like the Château de Marly than Versailles. Containing just ten principal rooms, it was built...
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City Palace, Potsdam (category Royal residences in Brandenburg)
parliament of the federal state of Brandenburg. On one of the walls of the Palace there is an inscription "Ceci n'est pas un château" ("This is not a palace")...
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collections were transferred to the newly created Musée National de la Renaissance at the Château d'Écouen in the northern outskirts of Paris, freeing additional...
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cathedral of Notre-Dame. Erlande-Brandenburg 1996. "The traditional attribution of the design [of the Sainte-Chapelle] to Pierre de Montreuil can no longer be...
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recognition of his brilliant achievement, Louis XV conferred on him the Château de Chambord for life, and in April 1746, he was naturalised as a French subject...
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the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, the Arc de Triomphe, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Parthenon and the Brandenburg Gate were among the first models visible...
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Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the castle in the town into a château. He rendered various diplomatic services for Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg. During the run-up to the Nine...
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List of wars and battles involving Prussia (section Franco-Dutch War and Swedish-Brandenburg War (1674–1679))
Prussia and its predecessor, Brandenburg-Prussia, were involved in numerous conflicts during their existence as nation-states. During their military engagements...
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Sainte-Chapelle (category Île de la Cité)
the relics were housed at chapels at the Château de Vincennes and a specially built chapel at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1246, fragments...
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Louis XIV (redirect from Louis-François de France, duc d'Anjou)
French Academy of Sciences. Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was named...
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decades. They sought asylum in the United Provinces, Sweden, Switzerland, Brandenburg-Prussia, Denmark, Scotland, England, Protestant states of the Holy Roman...
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Frederick William III of Prussia (redirect from Frederick William III of Brandenburg)
November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved...
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Prince Henrik of Denmark (redirect from Henri de Laborde de Monpezat)
Prince Henrik fled Denmark for France and went to stay at the couple's Château de Cayx in Cahors in southern France. The cause of his departure from Denmark...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (redirect from Basilique de Saint-Denis)
was decorated with richly-carved choir stalls and marquetry from the Château de Gaillon.(See "Choir Stalls" section below). After Napoleon's downfall...
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region. Waldeck had hoped to delay the campaign to enable the Elector of Brandenburg to move on the Moselle and tie down Boufflers, but Luxembourg's early...
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Rheinsberg (category Towns in Brandenburg)
municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake Grienericksee [de] and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km (12 mi)...
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