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Monthly Archives: July 2018
A real Downie of a day – Place des Vosges edition – part 3
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Oh, that’s Richelieu. Tell me more. We need now to take a quick, if brief, temporal step back to Henri IV. Recall that in 1572 Henri married his second cousin Marguerite de Valois who was a de’ Medici. After 27 …
A real Downie of a day – Place des Vosges edition – part 2
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From le Swamp Royale to le Place Royale. On 18 August 1572, Henri de Bourbon married his second cousin Marguerite de Valois. Marguerite was the daughter of Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici. (Henri would have his marriage annulled in …
A real Downie of a day – Place des Vosges edition
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After the detour into the life of Beaumarchais (whom I hope you found as interesting as I), it’s time to resume our walk through le Marais with our last stop before lunch at the place that David calls the jewel …
A real Downie of a day – the Beaumarchais edition – part 2
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New Intrigues. In April 1775 Beaumarchais went to London with a mission from King Louis XVI – to reach a settlement with a certain Chevalier D’Eon. D’Eon was attempting to blackmail Louis XVI by revealing to the British correspondence between …
A real Downie of a day – the Beaumarchais edition
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After a mid-morning coffee and croissant break (well, tea for me and coffee for everyone else), we made our way along rue François Miron. There, showing that half-timbering wasn’t exclusively the province of Normandy, we saw two of the oldest …