Jean Rivet : Choisy-le-roi. Le château de la Grande Mademoiselle
Passe encore d’étudier une ruine, mais pourquoi le faire d’un fantôme ? Il ne reste rien du premier château de la Grande Mademoiselle et l’on a oublié que Choisy-le- Roi s’est un temps appelé Choisy-Mademoiselle.
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Murielle Gaude-Ferragu : Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500
This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and (...)
Ambrogio A. Caiani : Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792
The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI’s short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state (...)