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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 ...
The indigenous people had told Cartier about a rich kingdom and Cartier was given two ships by the French government to explore countries beyond Newfoundland. [1] In 1542 Cartier founded the Charlesbourg-Royal settlement and his mates initially thought they had found large amounts of diamonds and gold in the area.
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.
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 .
French The Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1541 was a treaty of alliance between Denmark–Norway and the Kingdom of France in 1541. The alliance was rewritten in June 1542, [ 1 ] and formally ended in 1544 by the Treaty of Speyer , between Denmark-Norway and the Holy Roman Empire .
Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG (died 3 March 1542) was an illegitimate son of the English king Edward IV, half-brother-in-law of Henry VII, and an uncle of Henry VIII, at whose court he was a prominent figure and by whom he was appointed Lord Deputy of Calais (1533–40). [1]
The Warriors guard hit four 3-pointers in the final 2:47 of the gold medal game to help lead the United States to a 98-87 victory over France at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
This event is known as the Field of Cloth of Gold. [1] ... January 1-François Baudouin, French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. (d.1573) August 10 ...