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Charles

(shahrl),
Jacques, French physicist, 1746-1823. See: Charles law.
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Originally planned as a fortified gate, King Charles VI turned it into an independent stronghold by walling up the openings, but the defensive system wasn't finished until 1557.
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King Charles VI of France thought he was made of glass and refused to travel by coach in case he broke.
Are the Royals really a few jewels short of a crown?
Owain Glyndwr wrote the letter to French King Charles VI in 1406 asking for a military alliance against English monarch Henry IV.
Letter's home and Owain
The "Pennal" letter of Owain Glyndw r, below,"asking for support from Charles VI of France written 600 years ago, remains in France.
The Welsh treasures kept beyond our borders
KING Richard II married Isabella of Valois, daughter of the French King Charles VI, when she was just SEVEN years old in 1396.
MAD BUT TRUE; THE WEIRDEST THINGS TURN OUT TO BE KOSHER Bone China contains bones English men used to sell off their wives at auctions Bananas are radioactive When Bulgarians shake their heads they mean Yes
It was from Pennal that Owain Glyndwr in 1406 sent his famous letter to Charles VI of France; the event is commemorated in an impressive painting in the 19th-century church of St Peter's.
WALES: Historic Pennal; did you KNOW? WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS ABOUT WALES
On this re-edition of a recording by Collegium 1704, a Czech group specialising in the performance of Bohemian, Moravian, Saxon, Bavarian and Austrian Baroque music, we find compositions written for the celebration of the coronation of the Habsburg emperor Charles VI as King of Bohemia in Prague in 1723: Ouverture a 7 concertanti ZWV 188 and Hipocondrie a 7 concertanti ZWV 187.
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Johann Adolf Hasse's Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) is actually a historical allegory, written to celebrate the virtues of Emperor Charles VI and his wife Elizabeth Christina and, concurrently, to gain support for obtaining imperial favors.
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Stratford writes on the `Goldenes Rossl', made in Paris, but in fact a New Year's gift by Queen Isabeau of Bavaria to her husband, Charles VI, on 1 January 1405 and now belonging to the pilgrimage church of Altotting in Bavaria.
Treasure in the Medieval West
Pope Alexander VI, 1503); notable eccentrics - King Charles VI of France refused to travel by coach as he thought his legs were made of glass; and astounding statistics - 24 Japanese people have been killed bowing to each other.
What an awful row - don't give up your day job
Their porcelain came to the attention of the king, Emperor Charles VI, who was so delighted with their work he gave them an exclusive patent which read 'All sorts of fine porcelain .
A cup from Meissen's greatest rival in Europe
Auparavant, il avait compose en 1411 un Traite contre les devineurs destine a Jean sans Peur, ou est stigmatisee l'influence du diable aupres des princes sous la forme d'une superstitio florissante a l'epoque de Charles VI.
Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's `Contre les devineurs'

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