Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

However her mother, Madeleine de la Tour d ' Auvergne, the Countess of Boulogne, was from one of the most prominent and ancient French noble families ; this prestigious maternal heritage was of benefit to her future marriage to a Royal Prince of France.

* 1 January 1537: James V of Scotland is married to Madeleine of France

According to a 17th-century writer, James V had noticed the attractions of Mary when he went to France to meet Madeleine and Mary of Bourbon, and she was next in his affections.

At the end of the Hundred Years War in 1453, Charles VII of France declared that Beaucaire would become the site of the Foire de la Madeleine, a commercial fair that would enable the trade of goods from all of the Mediterranean Basin countries to all of France.

When Madeleine of France was married to James V of Scotland, Ronsard was attached as a page in the Scottish court, where he was encouraged in the idea of making French vernacular translations of classical authors.

After the execution of Louis XVI his body was immediately transported to the old Church of the Madeleine ( demolished in 1799 ), since the legislation in force forbade burial of his remains beside those of his father, the Dauphin Louis de France, at Sens.

Typical of various foyers run by religious and civic groups throughout France the Madeleine is the home of a restaurant open from Monday to Friday 11: 30 am to 2: 00 pm except holidays, school vacations and the month of August.

He was born in 1924 in Versailles, France to Jean-Pierre Lyotard, a sales representative, and Madeleine Cavalli.

The ambassadors were to contract with Francis I of France the marriage of James V to Madeleine of Valois.

Madeleine de Scudéry was part of a movement in the late Renaissance in England and France where women used classical rhetorical theory for their own.

* 20, 000 BC in art-Bison Licking Insect Bite created at la Madeleine in France ; Venus of Laussel

On 16 / 17 June 1943, cryptonymed ' Madeleine '/ W / T operator ' Nurse ' and under the cover identity of Jeanne-Marie Regnier, Assistant Section Officer / Ensign Inayat Khan was flown to landing ground B / 20A ' Indigestion ' in Northern France on a night landing double Lysander operation, code named Teacher / Nurse / Chaplain / Monk.

She was born in the Burgundy region of France to Pierre Labouré, a farmer, and Louise Madeleine Gontard, the ninth of 11 living children.

The Maison Carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison Carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.

* August 8: Madeleine de Verchères, daughter of a François Jarret, a seigneur in New France, and Marie Perrot ( b. 1678 )

* Noor Inayat Khan, Anglo-Indian Special Operations Executive radio operator in World War II Occupied France, killed in Nazi captivity with three other SOE agents, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment.

Born on 21 March 1965 in Châlons-sur-Marne, in the Marne département, of the Champagne-Ardenne région of France, Xavier Bertrand is the son of Jean-Pierre Bertrand, a bank executive and of Madeleine Bedin, a bank employee.

his son, François Henri, marshal of France, became duke of Piney-Luxemburg by his marriage with Madeleine Charlotte Bonne Thérèse de Clermont, daughter of Marguerite Charlotte de Luxemburg, duchesse de Piney.

Madeleine Astor, then five months pregnant, boarded the Titanic as a first class passenger in Cherbourg, France, with her husband, her husband's valet, Victor Robbins, her maid, Rosalie Bidois, and her nurse, Caroline Endres.

Bettencourt was born in Paris, France, the only child of Louise Madeleine Berthe ( née Doncieux ) and Eugène Schueller, the founder of L ' Oréal, one of the world's largest cosmetics and beauty companies.

His sister Catherine I of Navarre, who, as a minor, remained under the guardianship of her mother, Madeleine of France, was sought by Ferdinand the Catholic as a bride for his eldest son ; but she gave her hand in 1494 to the Jean d ' Albret, count of Périgord, a man of vast possessions in the south of France, brother-in-law of Cesare Borgia.

Quebec singers that have performed in France included: Céline Dion, Garou, Anthony Kavanagh ( a stand up comedian ), Isabelle Boulay, Bruno Pelletier, Linda Lemay and many others.

Pelletier remained close friends with Jacques Chirac, who became President of France in 1994.

Gize ( 1816 ) studied the extraction of crystalline quinine from the cinchona bark, and Pelletier and Caventou ( 1820 ) in France extracted pure quinine alkaloids, which they named quinine and cinchonine.

Pelletier met Trudeau while studying in France and worked with him and Jean Marchand during the Asbestos Strike of 1949 in Quebec.

* 2010: 175 000 festival-goers – Show by Bobby Bazini, Our Lady Peace, Hedley, Laurence Jalbert, Johanne Blouin, France D ’ Amour, Luce Dufault, Jesse Cook, Sylvain Cossette, Bruno Pelletier, Dan Bigras and Les Cowboys Fringants.

In October 1916 Pelletier and his wife arrived in Paris, France in the midst of World War I and the outbreak of a major flu epidemic.

Delphine Pelletier ( born 16 June 1977 in Bourges ) is an athlete from France, who competes in triathlon.

First air flight from France to Japan, by Pelletier Doisy and Besin.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

The King should expect no profit, and an advance of only 20 per cent above the cost in France, which would cover the expense of transportation and handling, was all he charged the traders.

Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man.