How To Use Valois In A Sentence
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The ball was hacked half-clear to the edge of the box where Jean-Louis Valois's half-hit return was just about the only poor connection he made all day long.
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Catherine de Valois, daughter of the French king is born in troubled times.
The Queen's Lover by Vanora Bennett: Book summary
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Charlotte de Sauve has been credited as a source of the information that led to the execution of Marguerite de Valois's lover Joseph Boniface de La M?le and Annibal de Coconnas for conspiracy in 1574.
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Above him the most Holy Trinity, beneath him the hart drinking from the fountains of water, the common vision of Saints John of Matha and Felix of Valois, the two founders of the Order, who kneel at the sides:
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Catherine de Medici, the mother of the Catholic king of France, Charles IX, had arranged for her daughter Margaret of Valois to marry the Protestant Henri, King of Navarre, a union that might heal France by ending the bloodletting between Christians.
Bloodlust
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Its Valois Cafeteria, a classic neighborhood eatery, has occasionally been visited by President Obama upon his returns to Chicago.
Academics of Real Estate
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(B) _The PRINCESS KATHARINE_,] Katharine of Valois was the youngest child of Charles VI.,
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre
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Comparatively little is known about the rather bizarre life of Catherine de Valois, wife of Henry V, but one of the best historical novelists around has conjured up a fascinating portrait of this forgotten queen.
The Queen's Lover by Vanora Bennett: Book summary
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It was soldiers armed with targets such as these under the command of Gonzalvo de Cordoba who defeated the Hapsburg-Valois pike formations in the Italian wars.
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Valois," he slowly says, "you have seen these native land-barons at the Convention.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois.
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The marriage of King Francois's heirs, Henri de Valois and Catherine de M dicis, is barren.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
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Ninette de Valois, we acknowledge the passing of one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential figures in the world of the arts, "said Sir Anthony Dowell, director of the Royal Ballet.
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As a young prince of the Renaissance, François became caught up in the struggle between the Habsburg and Valois dynasties of Europe.
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In 1784, a woman named Jeanne de la Motte, who claimed to be a descendant of King Henry II of France, and liked to use the name Valois, became the mistress of Cardinal de Rohan.
Quazen
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The Valois ruler's centralization, with their tailles and standardization of language and arts, would lead to expensive voyages to prestatial America, where their influence remains today in Quebec and Louisiana.
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The music publishers Boosey and Hawkes rescued it after it had become a Mecca dance hall in the Second World War, bringing in Ninette de Valois's Sadler's Wells ballet and reopening on 20 February 1946 with a gala performance of The Sleeping Beauty with Margot Fonteyn.
The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace | Observer Profile
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After the investiture in 1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy became a cadet branch of the French royal house of Valois.
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Philip V, Charles of Valois, the duke of Burgundy, and the counts of Evreuz,
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
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Based on (1) the marriage of Margaret (daughter of Charles II of Naples) and Charles of Valois, the parents of King Philip VI; and (2) the claims of the so-called second house of Anjou founded by Duke Louis I (d. 1384) of Anjou, count of Provence.
2. Sicily and Naples
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Sources close to the Kennilworth Road club have suggested Valois' real motivation for slumming it was financial.
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Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams ... at least that's true for Roy Valois.
Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams: Book summary
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Her field of deployment was not the courtrooms of Paris but the literary culture of the Valois court, with its love of classical myths and its taste for bizarrerie.
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It encouraged the adherents of this house to attribute to it an almost regal dignity, and to intimate more and more plainly its claim upon the throne of France, as descended through the Dukes of Lorraine from Charlemagne -- a title superior to that of the Valois, who could trace their origin to no higher source than the usurper Hugh Capet.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Knox de Valois from the Prophecy series ... i don't know if you'd call it romance but he does have a hot bod and likes to bite the lower lip: -)
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Images includes those of vivid rehearsals as well as behind-the-scenes pictures of seminal company personalities such as Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois, plus never-before-seen views of the dancers off duty, most charmingly a snap of Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nureyev, drinking in a London pub.
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