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Charles X was 66 when he became King. He was far less inclined to continue his brother’s concessions to a

When Louis XVIII returned to France as King in 1814, he moved into Napoleon’s apartment in the Tuileries Palace. Napoleon’s

During the French Revolution Madame Campan’s sister, who was also a lady of the bedchamber for Marie-Antoinette, was terrified of

The tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud had been the final

KINGS OF FRANCE 1000 – 1500 The history of the Kings of France starts in 987 when Hugh Capet, the

The Salic law was the civil law code started by Clovis, the first King of France. It called for agnatic

In 1963 the president of France, General Charles de Gaulle, decided to fully restore the Grand Trianon in Versailles as

Another major figure of the Art Nouveau period was architect Hector Guimard. He designed many buildings but today visitors to

Louis Majorelle studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1879 his father died in Nancy and he

Nélie (Cornelia) Jacquemart’s father worked for the Baron de Vatry, owner of the domain of Chaalis, 40 kilometers from Paris.