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Before the 14th century, oversight of the collection of royal taxes fell generally to the baillis and sénéchaux in their circumscriptions. Reforms in the 14th and 15th centuries saw France's royal financial administration run by two financial boards which worked in a collegial manner: the four généraux des finances (also called général conseiller or receveur général) oversaw the ...
Antoine Escalin des Aimars March 8 – Antoine Escalin des Eymars, the French ambassador, returns from Constantinople with promises of Ottoman aid in a war against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. July 12 - King Francis I, after allying with Suleiman the Magnificent, declares war once again on Charles V, starting the Italian War of 1542–1546. [2]
Royal statutes, etc. issued before the development of Parliament. 1225–1267; 1275–1307; 1308–1325; Temp. incert. 1327–1376; 1377–1397; 1399–1411
Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1515–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec). She became well known after her subsequent rescue and return to France; her story was recounted in the Heptaméron by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, and in later histories by François de Belleforest and André Thévet.
Laudonnière, as depicted in 1846 La Floride françoise (French Florida), by Pierre du Val, 17th century. Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɡulɛn də lodɔnjɛʁ]; c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
The Normandie crew of 146 mariners got no advance warning of the German sub “attack," to test their readiness in the inhospitable environment above the Arctic Circle, Vuong said. As of this week ...
January 1 (New Year's Day), Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, at the invite of king Frances I, visits Paris for the first and only time and stays for 2 months. [ 1 ] June 1 , Edict of Fontainebleau was issued by King Francis I branding Protestants as heretics and condemned to death.
He may have accompanied Jean Parmentier to Sumatra in 1529, and he definitely went to Brazil in 1539. [1] His work was greatly influenced by these early French explorations, which induced him to create highly decorative maps. [2] [3] Failing to find employment with King Francois I, Rotz went to England in 1542 and entered the service of Henry ...