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List of Belgian monarchs. This is a list of Belgian monarchs from 1831 when the first Belgian king, Leopold I, ascended the throne, after Belgium seceded from the Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Under the Belgian Constitution, the Belgian monarch is styled "King of the Belgians" ( French: Roi des Belges, Dutch ...
The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682 ...
The grand appartement de la reine is the Queen's grand apartment of the Palace of Versailles . Forming a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi, the grand appartement de la reine served as the residence of three Queens of France: Maria Theresa of Spain (wife of Louis XIV ), Marie Leszczyńska (wife of Louis XV) and Marie ...
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King ...
Coordinates: 48°45′N 2°30′E. The château at the time of la Grande Mademoiselle. The Château de Choisy was a royal French residence in the commune of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne department, not far from Paris. The commune was given its present name by Louis XV, when he purchased the manor of Choisy and its château in October 1739.
Under the Ancien Régime, the First Architect to the King (French: Premier Architecte du Roi, pronounced [pʁəmje aʁʃitɛktə dy ʁwa]) was the direct assistant to the general director of the building industries, arts and manufactures of France and, consequently, number 2 of the Bâtiments du Roi, forming part of the Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi.
The average annual temperature in Le Grau-du-Roi is 15.0 °C (59.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 574.5 mm (22.62 in) with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 23.5 °C (74.3 °F), and lowest in January, at around 7.3 °C (45.1 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Grau-du ...
The team was overjoyed by how well the ship fared when it finally took to the sea on March 2, said Robert B. Jackson, photographer and health and safety officer. “For the first time in 4,000 ...