Valois : from 1328 to 1589, the Valois kings continued the work of unifying France & centralizing royal power begun under their predecessors, the Capetians (see Capet(s)).
... portrait that of Princess Marguerite de Valois, by Francois Clouet, son of Jean Clouet? Both father and son were painters in the Court of Francois I (1494-1547), King of France. The younger Clouet had stayed on with the monarchs of the House of Valois-Angouleme. His many portraits of the Royalties of his time can be seen in various museums. That of Marguerite de Valois is now in Paris' National Library,... in the section 'Cabinet des Estampes.' The 'princesses' Mother mentions are Elisabeth de Valois and her younger sister Marguerite de Valois Page 127 (1552-1615). They were the daughters of Catherine de Medici and Henri II, son of Frangois I and Claude of France. A suppressed merriment lit up Mother's face. "And I started making remarks aloud (it took me a while to realize... encouraged tolerance in her younger brother but in her own chateaux at Paul and Nerac received Humanists, suspected heretics. A mystic, she nevertheless published storybooks also. Marguerite de Valois, otherwise known as Queen Page 129 Margot, was her grand-niece. Margot's husband was the future Henri IV of the House of Navarre, the first Bourbon king. Margot, like her great-aunt ...
... say that it is possible for the Mother to be two different women in the same age. She was both Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. In an earlier age she was at the same time Mona Lisa, Margaret de Valois and some other aristocratic lady whose name I forget for the moment. Of course we are here speaking of different partial emanations of the Mother, embodying one aspect or another aspect, and not the ...
... been done like that. And [when later telling this story] she added: “I stopped talking aloud, for the people would have thought that I was mad!”’ 11 That lady in a past existence was Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), the highly cultured queen of France and Navarre. ‘It was positively me. That was my portrait, that was me!’ 12 The portrait is now at the National Library in Paris. Then we find ...
... have met. The third incarnation was Queen Elizabeth I of England. The fourth one was Margaret of Valois (1553-1615), Queen of France and Navarre. In the second chapter of this book, while depicting the Mother’s life as an artist, we have seen how she was thunderstruck by a portrait of Margaret of Valois at the beautiful Château in Blois, on the Loire. She was so overpowered by the feeling that she herself ...
... with exactness, and these things have no value unless they are exact. And then, for the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa; and for the French Renaissance: François I, Marguerite de Valois, 2 and so forth. Twice I knew that it wasn't just images but something that had Page 230 happened to ME, but it took another form. Once (when I was older, around twenty) it happened... the whole battle scene—I lived through it all. And once the battle was over, it left him. It was very interesting. I wanted to clarify something.... I don't know if Mona Lisa and Marguerite de Valois were your incarnations, but weren't they contemporaries!?... Yes, but I told you—four at once! 7 Four at once. And, in general, they were the different states of being of the Mother—the ...
... to succeed them. The barons, afraid that one of their number might gain excessive power by marrying a reigning queen, invented a rule barring women from the succession. In 1328 they placed Philip of Valois, a cousin of the last king and a nephew of Philip the Fair, on the throne. But since Philip owed his position to the barons, he had to spend most of his reign bestowing favors on his supporters and... shown listening to divine voices Page 118 100 Years' War Brief Chronology 1328 Charles IV, King of France, dies, ending the Capetian dynasty. His cousin, Philip of Valois, succeedshim as Philip VI. 1337 Philip VI declares English King Edward's fiefs [in France] forfeit and begins harassing the frontiers of Aquitaine [a province of France held by the English ...
... comprehend now, for instance, that we must seek the beginnings of the French Revolution, not in Rousseau or Mirabeau or the blundering of Louis XVI, but in movements which date back to the Capet and the Valois, while the precise fact which prepared its tremendous outbreak and victory and determined its form was the defeat of the Calvinistic reformation in France and the absolute triumph of the monarchical ...
... already recounted this experience in Agenda VII , November 3, 1966 . × Mona Lisa and Marguerite de Valois. See Agenda III of June 30, 1962 . × See also Agenda I , October 30, 1960 . ...
... contraction of the outer crust of earth increases in proportion to the inner heat and pressure. Likewise on the human level, the red seed of the French Revolution was planted the very day when the Valois autocrat declared his divine right of kingship. In Russia, Lenin's antithesis was posited along with Peter the Great's thesis. A similar fateful crisis – a much greater one – faces humanity today ...
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