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The Château de Dordon, bought for Marie de' Medici by Louis XIII, is currently under renovation. In one of the rooms, beneath the plaster, workmen found nineteenth-century fabric wallpaper, and beneath it a copy of Le constitutionnel dated 13 September 1855
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On 31 December 2016 The European Library project, launched in 2004 at a conference of directors of national libraries, was frozen. The project's website published open materials from the libraries of CENL. The TEL portal has been frozen, yet a collection of 12 million digitised newspaper pages in
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Of the Chapultepec aqueduct, which ran from Montezuma's residence to Tenochtitlan (3 km) and supplied the whole city with water, only 14 arches remain today. The Spaniards' seizure of the aqueduct proved decisive in the capture of the Aztec capital
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There is much to tell about this château; it really is an interesting and very rich one. During the reign of Louis XII, the palace-château of Blois was in effect the capital of France. But in the centuries that followed, a good deal of interest happened here too. Blois
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Everywhere at Blois are carved the crowned porcupine and the two royal monograms, of Louis and Anne. The porcupine is the emblem of the House of Orléans and the personal symbol of King Louis. The motto of the house: Cominus et eminus, At a distance and at close quarters
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Monarchies · Heritage
Built in the fifteenth century, the Château de Blois, ancestral seat of the Dukes of Orléans, was the residence of Louis XII and later of his son-in-law Francis I. Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, died here
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After the Restoration the reliquary returned to Nantes, where it received little attention and was lost from view for many years, surfacing only in 1824, when it turned up in the hands of the porter of the town hall. Decades later, after long wanderings through museums and collections of jewels,
NB! · Faith · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris
The fate of the golden casket holding the heart of Anne of Brittany was a sorry one: after its desecration by vandals, the reliquary was sent to the melting pot. By a miracle it ended up not as scrap gold but in the National Library in Paris
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Besides her political testament, Anne of Brittany left a worldly one: the Duchess asked that her heart be carried home to her native land and buried where her parents lay. The heart was placed in a golden reliquary measuring 15*12 cm, crowned with a coronet of clover leaves and
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I have a sudden longing to get to Rostov the Great and visit the Museum of Church Antiquities, where a carved altar cross of the 16th century, stolen in 1995, is once again on display. Ticket: 70 roubles
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The canopy over the shrine of Metropolitan Peter. Russia, 1819. Dormition Cathedral, Moscow Kremlin
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