He was of Catholic faith and was buried in Bordeaux ; in 1919 his remains were transferred to the Royal Chapel of St. Anthony of La Florida in Madrid.

His reputation was such that a number of monks requested him to write a book to kindle their zeal ; and his letter to Joscelin, later archbishop of Bordeaux, who had asked him to decide a dispute between Bishop Isembert of Poitiers and his chapter, is evidence of the authority attributed to his judgment.

Both sides temporized ; the expense of a long war might be disastrous for both, and Peter and Charles arranged for a judicial duel, with a hundred knights apiece, on 1 June 1283 at Bordeaux.

Czechoslovakia took Brazil to extra time in a notoriously feisty match in Bordeaux before succumbing in a replay ; the South Americans proved too strong for the depleted Czechoslovak side ( both Oldřich Nejedlý and František Plánička had suffered broken bones in the first game ) and won 2 – 1.

The ordinances sparked a revolution against Charles's coup attempt ; by 2 August 1830, Charles had fled Paris and abdicated in favour of his grandson Henri, duc de Bordeaux.

* Gare Montparnasse – trains to Brittany, TGV to Rennes, Tours, Bordeaux, Le Mans ; rebuilt as a modern TGV station ;

Synthetic pesticides allowed for use on organic farms include insecticidal soaps and horticultural oils for insect management ; and Bordeaux mixture, copper hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate for managing fungi.

In 383 the army of Britain, led by Magnus Maximus, revolted against Gratian and assassinated him at Lyons ; and when emperor Valentinian II was driven out of Italy, Ausonius retired to his estates near Burdigala ( now Bordeaux ) in Gaul.

Ringwald was married to Valery Lameignère, a French writer, in Bordeaux, France, on July 28, 1999 ; they divorced in 2002.

From July 1942 to August 1944, 12 trains left Bordeaux for Drancy ; approximatively 1, 600 Jews, including 130 children under 13, were deported.

By the time of Liberation, the Resistance in Bordeaux was very weak ; it lacked members after being divided by internal dissensions and suffering German repression.

Eight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known ; and the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in Bordeaux, 1609, and to England, where it appeared in the form of a parody in 1625.

( Humorously, Tey writes of Inspector Alan Grant that " he had in his youth seen Richard of Bordeaux ; four times he had seen it ".

Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.

These mint marks often signal the rarity of the issue, for example the Napoleon 20 franc gold coin struck in 1809 at Paris and marked with the letter " A " had an issue of 687, 508 coins ; in the same year at the mint at Bordeaux, marked with the letter " K " only 2, 534 coins were struck ; while the mint at Lille, marked with a " W " struck 16, 911 coins.

You will perceive by the newspapers that a very great force is to be sent from Bordeaux to the United States ; and the order of the day is division of the States and conquest.

** 7 tramway networks across the country: 5 in service ( Bordeaux, Nice, Rouen, Nancy ) ; 1 in construction in suburban Lyon, ( Lesly ) and two in project ( Le Havre and Toulon )

Henri of Artois, Count of Chambord ( Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d ' Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord ; 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883 ) was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Henry V, although he was never officially proclaimed as such.

At last, a month before Robespierre's fall in June 1794, the escaped deputies felt themselves no longer safe, and deserted their asylum ; Louvet found his way to Paris, Salle and Guadet to Bordeaux, where they were soon taken ; Barbaroux was guillotined after a botched suicide attempt ; and the bodies of Pétion and Buzot, who had killed themselves, were found in a field, half eaten by wolves.

Her paternal ancestors came from Bordeaux, and Renan used to say that in his own nature the Gascon and the Breton were constantly at odds.

In France, it is more fully cèpe de Bordeaux, derived from the Gascon cep " trunk " for its fat stalk, ultimately from the Latin cippus " stake ".

In 1033, Odo took possession of the County of Bordeaux, traditional seat of the Gascon dukes.

The Médoc (; Gascon: Medòc ) is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux.

But the fact remains that in most restaurants, including some of the best of Paris and Bordeaux and Dijon, the bottle is frankly and simply brought from the cellar to the table when ordered, and all the conditioning or preparation it ever receives takes place while the chef is preparing the meal.

If a red Bordeaux of a good name and year is bitter or acid, or cloying and muddy-tasting, leave it alone for a while.

Eusebius ' evidence for continuation of a church at Aelia Capitolina is confirmed by the Bordeaux Pilgrim.

Bordeaux is the world's major wine industry capital.

Circa 585, a certain Gallactorius is cited as count of Bordeaux and fighting the Basques.

Bordeaux is located close to the European Atlantic coast, in the southwest of France and in the north of the Aquitaine region.

In Bordeaux, the Garonne River is accessible to ocean liners.

Red Bordeaux is called claret in the United Kingdom.

White Bordeaux is made from Sauvignon blanc, Sémillon, and Muscadelle.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The University of Bordeaux is divided into four:

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The luggage wagons, with a great amount of plunder, is said to have remained along the old Roman road, the main route from Poitiers to Bordeaux, to give protection to his weak right side.

The name is attested in inscriptions as " Boudica " in Lusitania, " Boudiga " in Bordeaux, and " Bodicca " in Algeria.

The city is near the intersection between the A63 autoroute between Bordeaux and the Spanish border and the A64 from Bayonne to Toulouse.

The Pilgrim of Bordeaux reports in 333: There, at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica, that is to say, a church of wondrous beauty.

The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, 1825 – 27, is the third and final Goya portrait which may depict Leocadia Weiss.

Bordeaux is known for its wine, as it is throughout the southwest of France, with certain areas offering specialty grapes for its wines.

Along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, Merlot is one of the primary grapes in Bordeaux wine where it is the most widely planted grape.

It is most prominent in Southwest France in regions like Bordeaux, Bergerac and Cahors where it is often blended with Malbec.