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Charles

(shahrl),
Jacques, French physicist, 1746-1823. See: Charles law.
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Figure of an ecclesiastic from the tomb of Charles VI and Isabeau de Baviere, 1422-29, France, marble, ht 23.
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Dante's Christian take on Cato's stoic constancy speaks to the eighteenth-century brand of Neostoicism embraced by Charles VI and the Habsburg line: the Habsburgs upheld Neostoic constancy as a principal virtue, as evidenced by the motto of Charles VI, Constanter continet orbem.
Apostolo Zeno and the tre corone: old heroes for the new stage
While the Pragmatic Sanction created by her father Charles VI was merely an acknowledgment of the possibility of female rule, it provided no symbolic framework that actually defined power as feminine, leaving artists the challenge of representing a woman ruler in a world dominated by Salic law.
Yonan, Michael Elia. Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art
For example, maybe Joan of Arc had the gift of hearing spirit voices without using an EVP recorder and these spirits gave her intelligent advice on how to defeat the English at Patay so that Charles VI could be crowned king of France.
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In 1396, Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orleans (1368-1408), fled the French royal court under suspicion of bewitching her brother-in-law, King Charles VI (1368-1422), and causing him to suffer periods of insanity.
Valentina Visconti, Charles VI, and the politics of witchcraft
Similarly, hunting was stringently restricted to the nobility, with severe penalty laws under Charles VI and Louis XIV should commoners endeavor to partake in the sport.
Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Austrian emperor Charles VI decreed that in the Czech provinces, only the oldest son of a Jewish family could marry.
Jewish life elsewhere
Vivaldi moved to Vienna in the hope of preferment after meeting Emperor Charles VI, but the emperor died soon afterwards, leaving the composer to end his life a pauper.
HORSE PLAY Just for the fun of it
Coupled with such relatively familiar fare, however, there are such rarities as Halevy's Charles VI and, notably, a powerful aria from Andre Wormser's Clytemnestre (1875) in which the guilty queen pleads with the ghost of the murdered Agamemnon for forgiveness.
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Henry V took part in handto-hand fighting while their bloke, Charles VI, had a nervous breakdown.
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of Auckland, New Zealand) challenges the conventional ideas about Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), the wife of mad King Charles VI of France, that describe her as respected and revered during her lifetime but after her death as incompetent, an adultress, and a betrayer of the throne.
The life and afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria
It was at this moment he turned to King Charles VI of France for aid against the "barbarous Saxons" with a proposition he believed could entice the monarch into action.
How the King of France held the key to an independent Wales; Meticulous reproductions of a letter in which Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndwe r pleaded for French help were recently presented to institutions across the nation. David Williamson asks how the story of Wales might have unfolded had Glyndwe r's vision of independence become a reality

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