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Charles VII

NOUN
  1. King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)

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  • After King Charles VIII's ill-starred invasion of Italy, survivors of his guard settled in a remote village in the north of the peninsula where, to this day, the inhabitants wear tartan.
  • Nevertheless, Monsieur de Savoie, for so Charles VII called the antipope, was united to him by ties of blood. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
  • When he appeared in Cork in 1491 he was taken up by a number of people who wished to embarrass Henry, including the earls of Kildare and Desmond, Charles VIII of France, and Margaret, dowager duchess of Burgundy.
  • The French dauphin made himself king as Charles VII with inspirational support from Joan of Arc.
  • Particular highlights include an extraordinarily beautiful large French panel, c.1500 depicting Charles VIII, and an extremely rare French thirteenth-century roundel depicting the execution of John the Baptist.
  • His exquisite "Sainte Marguerite Guarding the Sheep" in front of a turreted castle circa 1455, was cut out from a Book of Hours painted for Étienne Chevalier, Charles VII's treasurer. Past the Crowds, the Louvre's Little Gem of a Show
  • The young girl's historical journey led her away from home and eventually to Chinon, where she requested an audience with Charles VII, the dauphin and future king.
  • Madrid 4. This château was the seat of Henry II, Angevin King and King of England, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was here that Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself king and raise an army to liberate France; in 1562, Henri IV turned it into a state prison. Archive 2009-01-01
  • In 1429 Joan did fulfill her goals of raising the siege of Orleans and getting the dauphin crowned as King Charles VII at Reims, the traditional coronation site for French monarchs.
  • If the picture burns, it is not Charles VII as imaged that burns but simply the material object that serves as an analagon for the manifestation of the imagined object.
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