In depth recounting of my global wandering
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …