Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( d. 1780 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant ( d. 1862 )

* 1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1962 )

* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist ( d. 1856 )

* 1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director ( d. 1989 )

Like the Hôtel de Rambouillet in Paris, the château was owned by Charles d ' Angennes, the marquis de Rambouillet during the reign of Louis XIII.

She was married at the age of twelve to Charles d ' Angennes, vidame du Mans, and afterwards marquis de Rambouillet.

Among the more noteworthy episodes in the history of the Hôtel de Rambouillet are the literary quarrel between the Uranistes and the Jobelins-respective partisans of two famous sonnets, the Sonnet d ' Uranie, by Vincent Voiture, and the Sonnet de Job, by Isaac de Benserade-and the composition by almost all the great poets of the day of the Guirlande de Julie, a collection of forty-one madrigals, each on the theme of a flower, offered in 1641 to Julie d ' Angennes by Charles de Sainte Maure, who had been wooing her for ten years when he conceived the idea of the handsome manuscript, but whom she kept waiting four more years.

* Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier and his wife Julie d ' Angennes, the daughter of Charles d ' Angennes and Catherine de Vivonne

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

In addition, Charles Darnay suspected that his uncle, a marquis, would have used a lettre de cachet to throw Darnay in prison if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis had fallen out of favour with the Court.

* André Charles, marquis de La Jaille, Voyage au Sénégal pendant les années 1784 et 1785, avec des notes jusqu ’ à l ' an X par P. Labarthe, Paris, Denter, 1802.

The new French ambassador Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonville he sent to The Hague in 1799 was just the man for this job.

Castries was founded by the French in 1650 as " Carenage " ( meaning safe anchorage ), then renamed in 1756 after Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, commander of a French expeditionary force to Corsica that year.

* Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy ( 1625 – 1696 ), French diplomat, brother of Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Among those arrested with Lafayette were Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier de Laumoy ; Louis Saint Ange Morel, chevalier de la Colombe ; Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth ; Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg ; Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg ; Juste-Charles de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg ; Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy.

Lapérouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI and his minister of marine, Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, to lead an expedition around the world.

In 1785 the library was ceded by his descendant and representative the marquis of Malpica to Charles III of Spain, and it is now in the Royal Library at Madrid.

In the tout-Paris of Charles X, the Mornay name was represented by two extremely stylish men, the marquis de Mornay and his brother, styled comte Charles ; they figure in Lady Blessington's memoir of a stay in Paris in 1828 – 29, The Idler in France.

In February 1495, with the arrival of Charles VIII, Ferdinand II landed on the island and took possession of the castle, and, after having killed the disloyal castellan Giusto di Candida with his own hands, left the island under the control of Innico d ' Avalos, marquis of Pescara and Vasto, who ably defended the place from the French flotilla.

Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon

Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon ( 1782 – August 21, 1853 ) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars.

* History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena by Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon vol.

* History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena by Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon vol.

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The books propose the theory that a member of Napoleon's entourage, Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, poisoned him.

Charles François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec ( 19 August 1719 – Saint-Jean-d ' Angély, 16 August 1781 ), was a French soldier and diplomat from a distinguished French military family ( see House of Broglie ).

In Naples Charles appointed him at first councillor of state, then superintendent of posts, minister of justice in 1752, foreign minister in 1754 and finally prime minister and a marquis.

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