Sentences with phrase «french nobility»

Exactly 400 years ago, a group of «commoners» sent a letter to the French nobility, asking to be treated... read more

Obviously, the Marquis Launch is an annual November celebration of the summary ejection via catapult of French nobility during the Revolution.

In the Middle Ages they gained popularity with the French Nobility.

It was, instead, the pampered darling of the French nobility.

French nobility adored these little dogs, and the ladies often carried them to court.

And, if the French nobility didn't have to fight the English, they could go on plotting against each other to their hearts» content.

The guillotine spoke to the French nobility.

The pair of rocks, called the Donnorsmarck Diamonds, total more than 185 carats and once belonged to French nobility.

Not exact matches

Although they were never able to make France a Calvinist country (as their coreligionists did in Scotland and elsewhere), they did in the 1560s and 1570s attract between 7 and 10 percent of the French population, including a slight majority of the nobility, as well as seven of the 114 Catholic bishops.

When King Louis XIV (Rickman) determines that The Palace of Versailles should be an enviable symbol of French imperial resplendence, he commissions an extravagant reconstruction of one of its gardens under the charge of esteemed landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) who submits the contract out to tender amongst the elite of French artistic nobility.

Later, Italian nobility became obsessed with these small dogs, and they would become highly favored by the French in the 1500s.

Since French royalty enjoyed hunting in the 16th through 19th centuries, nobility and aristocrats favored this breed.

It was used for centuries on Spanish and French sailing ships to keep sailor's spirits up on long voyages, and later became a favorite among Italian nobility.

Poodles, especially the smaller varieties, were popular with the nobility, who would mold the little dogs» hair into extravagant styles, sometimes mimicking the ornate pompadours that French men and women wore themselves at the time.

The silhouette was an art form originally meant to amuse the early 18th - century French elite, but Walker had subverted the genre to depict a reality that most of the nobility would shudder at.