Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Churches and Castles of Medieval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher:
ISBN: 9783348077354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781494151188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
Churches and Castles of Medieval France
Author: LarnedChurches and Castles of Mediæval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230259536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...the other who became a Roman Catholic that he might be king of France are brought close together in this castle. The cradle of Henry of Navarre is in the chateau of Pau. It is a tortoise shell, and it was one of the great treasures of all the southern kingdom when Henry became king of France. There is a story about how it was saved at the time of the Revolution. A certain M. de Beauregard was afraid that this precious relic would be destroyed by the soldiers and the mob, and he resolved to save it if he could, even at the peril of life itself. He took it from the castle to his own home, and substituted another tortoise shell for it in the castle. This one was destroyed by the revolutionists. When the fever of their wrath had subsided and there was again a monarchy in France, he put the king's cradle back in its place. The story may be true. At all events, the Duchesse d'AngoulSme believed it, for she embroidered the banners that are now about it. This work of the daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette was supplemented by a gift from Louis XVIII. of a gold helmet surmounted by white plumes, meant to be as nearly as possible like the helmet of Navarre and the plumes that were to be the oriflamme of France on the day of Ivry. The chapter of history that was begun in the chateau where Henry IV. came into the world was a very strange one. The strong, proud mother exulting over the birth of her son, the grandfather, hardly less proud, christening him with the wine of his native land and declaring that he was to be a right noble king, and a true Be'arnais, the babyhood days in the tortoise-shell cradle, the years of boyhood among the peasants at Coarraze, the early battles when this youth showed himself a better soldier than some of the...
Churches and Castles of Mediæval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Churches and Castles of Mediæval France
Author: Walter Cranston LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CHURCHES & CASTLES OF MEDIAEVA
Author: Walter Cranston 1850-1914 LarnedPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361038567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France
Author: Walter Cranston 1850-1914 LarnedPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355517375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Castles in Medieval Society
Author: Charles CoulsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199273634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The vast majority of castles in England, Wales, Ireland, and France have virtually no military history' of sieges or physical conflict across the whole panorama of more than five centuries'. This is quite a sobering thought.