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Bluebeard: An Account of Comorre the Cursed and Gilles de Rais, with Summaries of Various Tales ...

 By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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Vannes - Page 328
We know that he was inquiring into the matter in the month of July, at the very time when the Marshal was visiting Jean V. at Vannes and Josselin. ...
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Le Mans - Page 149
The capture of Le Lude opened the road to Le Mans, whose inhabitants were eager to throw off the foreign rule; but an enterprise on that city could ...
more pages: 145 150 188 298 299 338
Angers - Page 264
In the course of time, Angers being less than twenty miles away, and its university rising to great celebrity, some of the culture which that ...
more pages: 126 186 188 189 191 217 218 238 271
La Rochelle - Page 142
but the geographical position of his territory points to the conclusion that the measures against La Rochelle were concerted there.1 ...
more pages: 184 273 298
Bourges - Page 299
ascribed to the unworthiness of Claude des Armoises, was the outcome of the interview which Gilles had at Bourges with Charles VII.2 All we know, ...
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Poitiers - Page 182
Poitiers,2 bestowed the title of Bishop on the chief dignitary of his collegiate, and his great ambition appears to have been to raise his clerics to ...
more pages: 155 156 184 218 239 240
Rennes - Page 146
and when Richemont, who with a few captains remained on the lost field till midnight, returned to Rennes, he caused Malestroit to be arrested. ...
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Reims - Page 163
And many did she provoke to tears when she said : " Gentle King, now is accomplished the pleasure of God, Who willed it that you should come to Reims ...
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Rouen - Page 171
dungeon, had been finally carried to Rouen about the end of the year. The English fully intended to drive the French out of Louviers, but had ...
more pages: 129 172 173 296 368
Quimper - Page 402
But Gradlon and his officers were able to reach Quimper, and that city then became the capital of Cornouaille. According to another legend, ...
more pages: 403
Leon - Page 394
The old Man: ' Forgive me, maidens, but I am a stranger ; I have come from far away, from beyond the land of Treguier and Leon, and I know not what ...
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Pornic - Page 393
The castles of Pornic and Chemere, which both belonged to him, have long been ranked among Bluebeard's castles. Even the ancient aqueduct (probably of ...
more pages: 125
Paris - Page 250
Brittany was scoured for necromancers ; it is said that a search for experts in the Black Art was even made in Paris. ...
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Toulouse - Page 161
The lay peers were originally the Dukes of Burgundy, Guienne, and Normandy, and the Counts of Flanders, Champagne, and Toulouse. ...
Rome - Page 182
sent deputations to Rome requesting that his Canons might be authorized to wear the cappa magna and the mitre, like prelates or like certain Canons of ...
more pages: 297
Brest - Page 323
Rodigo called ' of Guerande ' who had in his charge a youth about fifteen years of age named Bernard Le Camus, who belonged to Brest, but had been ...
more pages: 42 74
Florence - Page 309
but Ceva belonged to the Diocese of Mondovi, and remembering that Prelati was attached to the Bishop of that see when Blanchet met him at Florence, ...
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Moscow - Page 11
that his retreat from Moscow was a fiery setting; and that his emergence from Elba, to rule for twelve months, and then be banished to St. ...
Cholet - Page 231
Tiffauges is now a place of ruins, which may be visited by alighting at the station of Torfou, on the railway-line from Nantes to Cholet. ...
Chieti - Page 240
who likewise dabbled in alchemy,8 and one may be quite sure that Gilles' boon companions, Sille\ his 1 In the province of Chieti, kingdom of Naples, ...
Milan - Page 167
Milan, in recognition of their great assistance in placing contingents of troops at his disposal ; but Este and Milan were sovereign houses, whereas ...
Warwick - Page 150
James-de-Beuvron, had sent Warwick and Talbot against Brittany early in 1427, and Jean de Malestroit, the Bishop-Chancellor, ' a traitor sold to the ...
Exeter - Page 66
In England the form Danmonium—as applied to ' Old Cornwall," or Devonshire, as far east as Exeter—appears to have been current, as it is frequently ...
London - Page 296
2 Late in December, 1901, a prominent London evening newspaper printed a leaderette gravely suggesting that Joan was never burnt, and that the woman ...
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Cologne - Page 297
Re-pairing to Cologne, she there secured the support of Duke Ulrich of WVfftemberg ; but as she evinced a desire to dabble-'rf? magic, ...
Naples - Page 240
who likewise dabbled in alchemy,8 and one may be quite sure that Gilles' boon companions, Sille\ his 1 In the province of Chieti, kingdom of Naples, ...
St. Augustine - Page 265
St. Augustine, to which reference has been made previously. And if one account may be believed, he discovered among Jean de Craon's books 'a Latin ...
St. Louis - Page 232
the Philip Augustus and St. Louis period— a great fortress was wrought of the old remains and of the granite abounding in the valley of the Sevre. ...
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Baillif - Page 87
Roch le Baillif asserts in his ' Petit Traicte" de 1'Antiquit£ et Singularity de la Bre'tagne-Armorique,' Rennes, 1577, that he himself found in the ...
Memphis - Page 25
which dropped it at Memphis, near King Psammeticus, who, after marvelling at its beauty and diminutive size, caused strict inquiry to be made for its ...