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Pages in category "History of Poitiers" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Poitiers–Biard Airport is located 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) west of Poitiers with flights to Lyon—Saint Exupéry, London Stansted, Edinburgh Airport and Shannon Airport, Ireland on Ryanair. Urban transportation in Poitiers is provided by a company dubbed Vitalis although their e-infrastructure is difficult to access.
The famous Jesuit Juan Maldonado and five of his confrères went in 1570 to Poitiers to establish a Jesuit college at the request of some of the inhabitants. [21] After two unsuccessful attempts, the Jesuits were given the Collège Ste. Marthe in 1605. François Garasse was professor at Poitiers (1607–08), and had as a pupil Guez de Balzac ...
Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle , Niort , Angoulême , Châtellerault , Saintes , Rochefort and Royan . Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine on 1 January 2016.
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An acute observer, and stickler for protocol, Aliénor de Poitiers committed matters of court etiquette to writing between 1484 and 1491. Her work was later published as Les Honneurs de la Cour (Honors of the Court) [4] The book gives the structures and rules of court ritual and the etiquette appropriate to different social classes and situations. [7]
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, during the Hundred Years' War. It took place in western France, 5 miles (8 km) south of Poitiers , when approximately 14,000 to 16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held ...