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Dauphin and now
To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.
( Philip the Good would later make peace with the Dauphin, now Charles VII, with the Treaty of Arras when, under the inspiration of Joan of Arc, the tide of the war turned in favour of the French.
The 1880 census showed 155 families living in 146 dwellings in Dauphin, but by now they occupied 154 dwellings.
The same website also carries an update dated 11 October that Multiflight are to rerole AS365 Dauphin N1 G-CEYU as a spare aircraft for Great North Air Ambulance-the service has now bought this aircraft.
In view of the heavy casualties on the French side, the original plan of moving towards Zürich, where a Swiss force of 20, 000 was ready, was now judged unfavourably by the Dauphin and the French troops turned back, contributing to the eventual Swiss victory in the Old Zürich War.
Canby and Farragut had already decided before the first landings on Dauphin Island that the army could not provide enough men to attack Mobile itself ; furthermore, the Dog River Bar that had impeded bringing CSS Tennessee down now prevented Farragut's fleet from going up.
Dauphin was initially centred around the community of Dauphin, Manitoba, though it now encompasses much rural territory as well.
The English army, outnumbered, was now trapped in Calais ; the Dauphin, left unopposed, concentrated his efforts on investing Boulogne.
* 1506 – Fernando Soares, a Portuguese explorer sailing back to Portugal from India, sailed past what was to become Fort Dauphin ( now Tolagnaro ) harbor.
* 1915-Miss Clara Dysland arrived in Fort Dauphin to open the American School for Lutheran Missionary children, with the old American School building ( now a maternelle ) and the Trano Vato ( now the Hotel Mahavoky ) built specifically for this in 1923.

Dauphin and Charles
These were followed by groups of infantry ( dismounted cavalry ) commanded, respectively, by the Dauphin ( later Charles V of France ), the Duke of Orléans and King Jean.
The Dauphin became King Charles V of France in 1364, with Taillevent as his chief cook.
The future French king, Charles VII, assumed the title of Dauphin – the heir to the throne – at the age of fourteen, after all four of his older brothers died in succession.
At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.
* 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
The heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.
* May 6 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne ( b. 1490 )
As part of the Treaty of Arras, Maximilian betrothed his three-year-old daughter Margaret to the Dauphin of France ( later Charles VIII ), son of his adversary Louis XI.
# Margaret of Austria, ( 1480 – 1533 ), who was first engaged at the age of 2 to the French Dauphin ( who became Charles VIII of France a year later ) to confirm peace between France and Burgundy.
* October 21 – With the death of King Charles VI of France, Henry VI of England is proclaimed King of France in Paris, while the Dauphin, Charles, is proclaimed King Charles VII of France in Bourges.
* August 26 – Old Zürich War – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: Charles VII of France, seeking to send away troublesome troops made idle by the truce with England, sends his son the Dauphin with a large army into Switzerland to support the claims of Emperor Frederick III.
Louis's son the Grand Dauphin, as nephew to the late king, was closest heir, and Charles willed the kingdom to the Dauphin's second son, the Duke of Anjou.
Louis Charles was visibly stronger than the sickly Dauphin, and the new baby was affectionately nicknamed by the queen, chou d ' amour.
With his mother at his side, the seven-year old boy passed away at Meudon on 4 June, succumbing to tuberculosis, and leaving the title of Dauphin to his younger brother, Louis Charles.
In 1475, Louis XI agreed to let her marry his son, Charles, the Dauphin of France, but Louis reneged on the promise in 1482.
His grandfather, Louis Le Grand Dauphin, had three sons with his wife Marie Anne Victoire of Bavaria: Louis, Duke of Burgundy ; Philippe, Duke of Anjou ( who became King of Spain ); and Charles, Duke of Berry.
In 1428 after setbacks on the battlefield Charles VII of France sent a distinguished embassy led by Renault of Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims to Scotland to persuade James to renew the alliance — the terms were to include the marriage of the princess Margaret to Louis the Dauphin of France and a gift of the county of Saintonge to James.
However, the French failed to capitalize on the aftermath of Montargis, in large part because the French court was caught in an inner power struggle between the constable Arthur de Richemont and the chamberlain Georges de la Trémoille, a new favorite of the Dauphin Charles.
Once again, the Dauphin Charles was advised to sue for peace with Burgundy and should that fail, to consider abdicating and retiring to the Dauphiné, perhaps even going into exile in Scotland.
It was on the very day of the Battle of the Herrings that a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was meeting with Robert de Baudricourt, the Dauphinois captain of Vaucouleurs, trying to explain to the skeptical captain her divinely-ordained mission to rescue the Dauphin Charles and deliver him to his royal coronation at Rheims.
On March 9, she finally met the Dauphin Charles, although it would be a few days more before she had a private meeting where the Dauphin was finally convinced of her " powers " ( or at least, her usefulness ).

Dauphin and VIII
* July 28 – Guy VIII of Viennois, Dauphin of Vienne ( b. 1309 )
Guy VIII, Count of Vienne, had a dolphin on his coat of arms and had been nicknamed le Dauphin.
# Isabelle ( c. 1312 – April 1348 ), wife of Guigues VIII de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin de Viennois.
Following his death as Henry III tried to bring order to the country the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln, its rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France ( later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave.
In 1216 the French Dauphin Louis VIII besieged King John in the castle for two weeks.
On 16 December 1216, during the First Barons ' War, Hertford Castle surrendered after a siege from Dauphin Louis ( later Louis VIII of France ), whom the English barons had invited to England to replace John as King.
To settle the conflict with France, he by the Treaty of Arras agreed to marry his daughter, Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to the Dauphin of France, the later King Charles VIII, bringing the Imperial County of Burgundy to the French crown as her dowry.

Dauphin and was
She was a better ally than the chief alternative, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had grown up in France and was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.
Helicopter AS-365 N2 Dauphin crashed off the coast of the main island in July 1994, a smaller helicopter AS-355F-2 continued in service until mid-1997 and in 1999 was sold to France.
He was chef to Philip VI, then the Dauphin who was son of John II.
This agreement revived rumors about her alleged affair with the late duke of Orléans and raised fresh suspicions that the Dauphin was illegitimate rather than the son of the king.
She later testified that she experienced her first vision around 1424 at the age of 12 years, when she was out alone in a field and saw visions of figures she identified as Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.
When she was only two years old she was promised to the Dauphin, the infant son of King Francis I of France, but the contract was repudiated after three years.
In the absence of any children, Philip was concerned that after Mary and Elizabeth, one of the next claimants to the English throne was the Queen of Scotland, who was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.
Rømer was employed by the French government: Louis XIV made him tutor for the Dauphin, and he also took part in the construction of the magnificent fountains at Versailles.
Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.
Somerset's army eventually defeated the Scots, but the young Queen Mary was smuggled to France, where she was betrothed to the Dauphin, the future Francis II of France.
However, the Dauphin, as heir apparent to the French throne, was a problematic choice: he would have unified the French and the Spanish crowns and controlled a vast empire that would have threatened the European balance of power.
Failure to become a serious dramatic actor disappointed him, but his potential as a comic performer gave him his break when he was spotted playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954 by radio producer Dennis Main Wilson.
The name was later changed to " Les Films du Dauphin ".

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