Valois

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• According to Jan Hirschbiegel's statistics, the Valois women, headed by Valentina Visconti and Isabeau of Bavaria, frequently participated in New Year's gift exchanges.

  Academic text (2001)

• According to Jan Hirschbiegel, 6,403 actual gifts are recorded for the period between 1381 and 1422 at the Valois courts, a figure that must in reality have been substantially higher if one takes into account the gaps in the surviving documentation.

  Academic text (2001)

• Claims to be of the house of Valois.

  The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

• If I have no legacy to pass on, the name of Valois dies with me.

  The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

• What were the kinds of things that the Valois deemed to be suitable as New Year's presents?

  Academic text (2001)

• All this proved that the Valois and the Habsburgs were too ambitious to remain at peace for long.

• When the Valois courts celebrated the New Year in the late Middle Ages, they inscribed themselves into a long ritual tradition.

  Academic text (2001)

• Indeed, it is on the grounds in front of a chateau belonging to France's royal Valois family that the children listen to Adrienne's song.

  Academic text (1995)

• Vowing to restore honor to the Valois name... ...she set her sights on the one person she felt could make it right... ...the queen of all France, Marie-Antoinette.

  The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

• Celebrating the betrothal of Marguerite of Valois, sister of the King, to Henry of Navarre, royal Huguenot, to insure peace in the place of intolerance.

  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

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