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Jacques Cœur, industrialist and financier to Charles VII, peers out of a false window in his astonishing mansion at Bourges

Jacques Cœur, industrialist and financier to Charles VII, peers out of a false window in his astonishing mansion at Bourges. Cœur minted gold écus and kept the king's mistress, Agnès Sorel, supplied with treasures

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The beard token introduced by Peter the Great in 1705, confirming payment of the beard tax (30 to 100 roubles) with the words "The money has been taken"

The beard token introduced by Peter the Great in 1705, confirming payment of the beard tax (30 to 100 roubles) with the words "The money has been taken". Peter died on 8 February 1725, yet the tax was abolished only in 1772

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On 7 February 1770, Louis XV formally asked for the hand of Marie Antoinette on behalf of his grandson, Louis XVI

On 7 February 1770, Louis XV formally asked for the hand of Marie Antoinette on behalf of his grandson, Louis XVI. The wedding took place some months later, and by proxy at that, which is to say in the absence of the groom! Then the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette

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The inscription on the stone records the conquests of Harald Bluetooth and serves to commemorate his parents, Gorm the Old and Thyra

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The great rune stone raised by Harald Bluetooth, gatherer of the Danish lands and baptiser of Denmark, that venerated tenth-century ruler after whom Bluetooth was named

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The Jewish community, too, celebrated Elizabeth's coronation in 1953

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I deliberately refrained from calling Yaroslav Vladimirovich "the Wise", so as to preserve the truth of the chronicles and sagas, in which nobody ever called him wise

I deliberately refrained from calling Yaroslav Vladimirovich "the Wise", so as to preserve the truth of the chronicles and sagas, in which nobody ever called him wise. The Wise would be invented centuries later by Karamzin. I should like to say how precious the sagas are to us,

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The descendants of Yaroslav's eldest daughter Anastasia and King Andrew will rule Bohemia, Poland and the neighbouring principalities for many generations

The descendants of Yaroslav's eldest daughter Anastasia and King Andrew will rule Bohemia, Poland and the neighbouring principalities for many generations. Many of them will enter into dynastic marriages with the Rurikids.

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Descendants of Princess Anna Yaroslavna of Kyiv ruled France until the late 18th century

The marriage of the Kyivan princess Anna Yaroslavna to Henry I of France, childless in his first marriage, produced three sons, Philip I, Robert and Hugh, and a daughter, Emma. Anna's descendants would rule France until the end of the eighteenth century: all three dynasties that succeeded one

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Russo-Scandinavian marriages of the 11th and 12th centuries in the sagas and Yaroslav's daughters

The saga of the Norwegian kings from roughly 1025 to 1157 is called "Morkinskinna" ("Rotten Skin"). It mentions the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of Yaroslav, Prince of Kyiv, to Harald Sigurdsson. It is believed that in reality the princess was called Olisava, and in the sagas

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