These divine messengers, she said, were urging her to go to the aid of the man who was the rightful king of France: Charles of Valois, son of Charles VI, whom the English had disinherited.

In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters - arrived in New France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Jean-Baptiste Colbert ...

The bride’s father-in-law, the king of France, was present in the nuptial ... as the mother of the last three Valois kings.

In 1537 James married Madeleine de Valois, daughter of the King of France, Francis I. Madeleine died shortly after the wedding and the following year James married again to Mary of Guise ...

Under the Valois and the Bourbon kings, the royal effigy was often accompanied by this animal, meant to stand for France, in engravings and on coins. Although still a minor emblem, the rooster could ...

France’s Willot brothers—Bernard, 45, Jean-Pierre, 40, Antoine, 38, Regis, 35—have made that scenario increasingly familiar in European industrial circles. They make it their business to ...

Françoise Parlagi and Helen Lowe view their grandfather Adalbert Parlagi's 1865 Monet painting "Bord de Mer" after it had ...

Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, cousin of Francis I, King of France. Catherine's mother died when she was ...

In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...

The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI met their untimely ... got in contact with a noblewoman and con artist, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, also known as Countess de la Motte.

King Charles III's state visit to France has been postponed after a request by President Emmanuel Macron, Downing Street says. The president said "we would not be sensible and would lack common ...

The Memorial de Caen remembers this, and everything else, in France’s best Second World War museum. More Parisian red-beltery, though it wasn’t always. Most French monarchs were buried in the ...