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Charles wrote most of his military biography of king Louis XIV of France after his military career had ended. According to his elder brother, Joseph Sevin de Quincy, the author of Mémoires du chevalier de Quincy, who also had a military career, Charles borrowed freely from the latter's diaries, without attribution, for the military history in that work.
Charles V [a] (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise (French: le Sage; Latin: Sapiens), was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380. His reign marked an early high point for France during the Hundred Years' War as his armies recovered much of the territory held by the English and successfully reversed the military losses of his predecessors.
On 2 July 922, Charles lost his most faithful supporter, Herveus of Reims, who had succeeded Fulk in 900. Charles returned with a Norman army in 923 but was defeated on 15 June at the Battle of Soissons by Robert, who died in the battle. [6] Charles was captured and imprisoned in a castle at Péronne under the guard of Herbert II of Vermandois ...
The last French royal coronation was that of Charles X, in 1825 by Jean-Baptiste de Latil in Rheims cathedral. Charles' decision to be crowned, in contrast to his predecessor, Louis XVIII, proved unpopular with the French public, and Charles was ultimately overthrown in a revolution in 1830.
Charles Philippe with his younger sister Clotilde on a goat. Charles Philippe of France was born in 1757, the youngest son of the Dauphin Louis and his wife, the Dauphine Marie Josèphe, at the Palace of Versailles. Charles was created Count of Artois at birth by his grandfather, the reigning King Louis XV.
Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II in 1560, and as such was the penultimate monarch of the House of Valois. Charles' reign saw the culmination of decades of tension between Protestants and ...
Australian man claims to be the secret firstborn of King Charles and Queen Camilla, and is threatening legal action against them for hiding the “truth.” The post “Bad Idea”: Man Posts New ...
« Charles VII, Louis XI et les premières années de Charles VIII (1422-1492) », in Histoire de France, de Ernest Lavisse, Paris, Hachette, 1902. Documents nouveaux sur les mœurs populaires et le droit de vengeance dans les Pays-Bas au XVe s., 1908. Le déshéritement de Jean sans Terre et le meurtre d'Arthur de Bretagne, Paris, F. Alcan, 1925.