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French passport of 1830 issued to a Corsican student travelling to Rome
Authentic passport of a Corsican student in Rome, 1830. As is only proper, the king is mentioned in every document
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Princess Gunhild, whose eye disease was cured by Saint Wulfstan, had a younger sister: Gytha
Saxo Grammaticus reports that after Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings, Gytha of Wessex fled to Flanders, then to her uncle, King Sweyn of Denmark, and a few years later married Vladimir Monomakh, Prince of Smolensk. Gytha bore six sons: Mstislav the Great (Prince of Kyiv), Izyaslav
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Feast of Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, on 19 January, and his entry in an 11th-century cartulary
19 January is the feast day of the patron of all vegetarians and dieters, Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester. An entry on Wulfstan in one of the cartularies of the eleventh-century manuscript of Worcester Priory
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Ten years ago Christie's sold Sanson's letter addressed to Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, editor of the "Annales patriotiques", in which he tells the truth about the death of "Citizen Louis Capet" in order to put a stop to conjecture and false claims about how…
Charles-Henri Sanson kept diaries, though it is not known whether they formed the basis of the volumes published in the 1860s. There are grounds for thinking that these may have been a free interpretation of history in another's hand, and that Sanson's grandson may have
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From the testimony of the executioner Sanson we know of the dignity with which Louis XVI met his death
From the testimony of the executioner Sanson we know of the dignity with which Louis XVI met his death. His last words are held to have forgiven his murderers and to have prayed for the fate of France
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This portfolio holds the notes of the Parisian executioner Charles-Henri Sanson on the execution of Louis XVI
This portfolio holds the notes of the Parisian executioner Charles-Henri Sanson on the execution of Louis XVI. Sanson executed the king, the queen, Robespierre and Danton. In all, the executioner's tally stands at some 3,000 lives
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An Entry in the Calendar of Margaret Beaufort, Great-Great-Granddaughter of Edward III, on the Day of the Wedding of Her Son Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
An entry in the calendar of Margaret Beaufort, great-great-granddaughter of Edward III, on the day of the wedding of her son Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. The marriage took place on 18 January 1486 and reconciled the warring dynasties, uniting them
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A representative delegation arrived from Russia for the wedding of Princess Victoria and Prince Ernst, headed by the Tsarevich Nicholas, with his uncles Paul, Sergei and Vladimir and their Grand Duchesses, the royal family's confessor Father John and even
A representative delegation arrived from Russia for the wedding of Princess Victoria and Prince Ernst, headed by the Tsarevich Nicholas, with his uncles Paul, Sergei and Vladimir and their Grand Duchesses, the royal family's confessor Father John and even a domestic teacher of Russian. Why all this? Most
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Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsarevich Nicholas with his bride-to-be Alix of Hesse, and others, at Coburg on 21 April 1894, at the wedding of Princess Victoria Melita and Ernest of Hesse
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Just a trifle, merely a Mozart autograph
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The Orléans branch of the Valois comes to power and the salamander on its coat of arms
One branch of the House of Valois is that of Charles VI, the very man who was crowned thanks to Joan of Arc. The other branch of the House of Valois is the Dukes of Orléans. Charles d'Orléans, the great poet, returns from captivity, and is regarded with