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July 27, 2018
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Our walk through le Marais done, it was time to break for lunch and we’d let David choose the restaurant. I believe it was the Bistrot des Vosges and while the meal was fine, the service was sadly below par. …
July 24, 2018
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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 …
July 24, 2018
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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 …