Trying to preserve her youth, Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, died from drinking gold.
Of course, the goal had been precisely that--to convey to all visiting ambassadors the power and majesty of the French King.
You make the comparison to the mistress of French King Henry II.
In 1693, however, the French king Louis XIV again sacked Heidelberg, blowing up its key buildings and burning the refurbished library and its contents to the ground.
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But Henry was no match for the French king, who introduced France's first standing army in 1445, and ultimately crushed the overstretched English within a little over two years.
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The next two safest banks according to Global Finance are Caisse des Depots et Consignations - created by French King Louis XVIII in 1816 to manage the pension funds of state employees - and Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, 50% owned by the state and 50% by the provinces.
Another 14 died, including Canada's french fry king Harrison McCain and Rafik Hariri , Lebanon's former prime minister.
Maule did well to follow up and put pressure on the French chasers, allowing King to pick up the ball for a converted try.
Ireland's King of Kings dethroned French champion Xaar to land a first British classic for trainer Aidan O'Brien in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.
After collecting a nightcap in the Club Lounge, we contentedly returned to our corner suite, embellished with oil paintings, fresh flower arrangements, leather ottomans, a dramatic half-tester king bed and mirrored French armoires.
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou, who were negotiating an alliance, were assassinated by Vlada Chernozamsky, a Croatian terrorist, in Marseilles.
What set spark to tinder was the abdication of Spain's King Ferdinand VII, after a French invasion in 1808.
Only in 1576 did Jean Bodin, a French political thinker, assure Europe that the king, and he alone, was boss.
When Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, fled advancing French troops in 1798 he took with him to Palermo some 20 works from the remarkable Farnese collection, his grandmother Elisabetta having been the last of the Farnese line.
In 1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed two days after the abdication of King Louis-Philippe.
After all, the prince-bishop pointed out, had not the French only recently chopped off the heads of their own king and queen in a square in Paris?
Also in the Broad Ripple neighbourhood, chef Greg Hardesty presents plates of edible art at his acclaimed Recess, illustrating just how refined the Indianapolis food scene has become, with a rotating menu of fresh fish like sable served with a sweetcorn-scallion blini, and an international drinks list of perfect dish pairings, from a French 2009 Domaines Schlumberger pinot gris to a local Sun King Brewery Wee Mac Scottish-style ale.
The King was fighting a counter-offensive against the French in July 1087 when he fell against the pommel of his saddle and badly damaged his intestines.
French President Jacques Chirac, in a letter to the late king's family, said the monarch's "extraordinary devotion" to his people was an example to all world leaders.
The Russians and Chinese and French will balk, but they can hardly be more royalist than the king.
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Even the French, somewhat better informed, tend to remember him only as the Prussian king who had the wit to befriend Voltaire.
Nikini, who went to King Edward VI High School (for girls), had taken French, maths, further maths and classical civilisation - a subject in which she came in the top five in the country.
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The eighteenth century was the French century: Rousseau, Voltaire, Versailles and the court of the Sun King Louis the Fourteenth, Buffon and the Jardin des Plantes, Paris buzzing with the discourse of the enlightenment and the new supremacy of scientific method.
And in some cases, what's being fought over - and what our interest is - is the integrity of places that have no natural integrity and that ultimately, the resolution of these conflicts is going to involve our giving up on the idea that the Belgian king's boundaries are the real boundaries, or that the French foreign office's boundaries are the real boundaries.
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French fantasies of Paris becoming a superpower, with Jacques Chirac as a modern Sun King, are over.
King of clay Nadal had compiled a 31-match winning streak at the French Open and was attempting to win the second grand slam of the year after beating world number two Roger Federer in the final of the Australian Open.
Educated at French schools in Saigon and in Paris, the Nazi-controlled Vichy government in France crowned Sihanouk king of Cambodia in 1941, bypassing his father in the hope that the 18-year-old could easily be manipulated.
Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Day parade, while four were injured when gunfire rang out after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras.
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