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Amboise (US: /ɒ̃ˈbwɑːz/; French: [ɑ̃bwaz] ) is a
commune in the Indre-et-Loire
department in
central France.
Today a
small market town, it was once home...
- The Château d'Amboise is a château in
Amboise,
located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the
Loire Valley in France.
Confiscated by the
monarchy in...
- The
Amboise conspiracy, also
called Tumult of
Amboise, was a
failed attempt by a
Huguenot faction in
France to gain
control over the
young King Francis...
- and was also at the coronation.
Later he
supported the
repression of the
Amboise conspiracy of 1560,
notably by
going to the
Parlement to
communicate to...
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Ambroise Paré (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20
December 1590) was a
French barber surgeon who
served in that role for
kings Henry II...
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Adelais of
Amboise (sometimes
called Aelinde) (fl. 865), came from an
influential Frankish family in the
Loire Valley.
Through her mother,
whose name...
- of
Amboise (Mahaut,
Mathilde d'Amboise; c. 1200 ‒ 12 May 1256) was the
Countess of
Chartres 1248-1256. She was the
daughter of
Sulpice III of
Amboise and...
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appointed Lieutenant-General of France. In 1560, a
group of
Huguenot nobles at
Amboise had
planned to try to
abduct King
Francis II and
arrest the
Catholic leaders...
- the
benefit of
members of the
House of Choiseul;
three other duchies (
Amboise, Praslin, Stainville) are also
commonly ****ociated with the name of Choiseul...
- The
House of
Amboise was one of the
oldest families of the
French nobility whose followed filiation dated back to the
early twelfth century. It took its...
