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Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel is the name of a tidal island located off the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, near the mouths of the Couesnon River and the town of Avranches in France. While the island of Mont-Saint-Michel has held cultural, religious...
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Michel de L'Hospital
Michel de L'Hospital (also known as L'Hôpital, c. 1505-1573) was a French statesman who served during the reigns of four kings – Francis I, Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX – as Councillor of Parlement (1537), Chancellor of the Duchesse...
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Portrait of Chancellor Michel de L’Hospital
Michel de L'Hospital (c. 1506-1573), Chancellor of France, oil on wood by an unknown French artist, second half of the 16th century.
Louvre, Paris.
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Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo
A 1767 oil on canvas portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo of the French author and philosopher Diderot (1713-1784). (Louvre Museum, Paris)
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Bombard Canons, Mont-Saint-Michel
Two English bombard canons at Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy. The canons were abandoned by Thomas Scalles in 1434 CE during the Hundred Years' War (1332-1453 CE) between England and France
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Michel Ney
Portrait of Michel Ney (1769-1815), a French marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). After distinguishing himself in the War of the First Coalition, Ney rose through the ranks and was appointed as one of the original...
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Statue of Michel de L'Hospital
Statue of Michel de L'Hospital (also known as L'Hôpital, c. 1505-1573), Chancellor of France, Louis-Pierre Deseine, Palais Bourbon, Paris.
Photo by DimiTalen, 2016.
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Michel de L'Hospital
Michel de L'Hospital, portrait from Bibliotheca sive Thesaurus virtutis by Jean Jacques Boissard, Frankfurt am Main: William Fitzer 1627.
Municipal Library of Trento.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (l. c. 484 – 425/413 BCE) was a Greek historian famous for his work Histories. He was called The Father of History by the Roman writer Cicero, who admired him, but has also been rejected as The Father of Lies by critics, ancient...
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Medieval Monastery
A medieval monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion. Christian monasteries first developed in the 4th century in Egypt and Syria...
