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Before Fontainebleau was the Châteaux de Amboise and before this is the 11th Century Châteaux d'Usse stronghold first fortified by the Norman lord of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur who surrounded the fort with a palissade on a high terrace at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley. The site passed to the Comte de Blois, who rebuilt in stone.
John II 16 April 1319 – 8 April 1364 Anjou to the north of Poitou
Capital city Poitiers, Romans call Limonum
Port of La Rochelle
Charles V 21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380 Karolvs V
Charles VI / Carolvs VI 3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422 Karolvs VI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Valois Blue and White
Henry V England16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422, interest in Real, Royal, or Court Tennis Royal in England began with Henry V (1413-22)
At the time there was a severe imbalance between single men and women because most female immigrants had to pay their own passage, and there were few single women who voluntarily came to settle in the harsh climate and conditions of New France, most of them as indentured servants or as employees of the Church. France had also for a long time considered New France as an outpost rather than a colony, and had not concerned itself with increasing the population. Jean Talon made a request to the King to send at least 500 girls to correct the problem. The King accepted, and eventually nearly twice the number were recruited.
The title "King's Daughters" was meant to imply state patronage, not royal or even noble parentage, and most of these women were commoners. They received monetary support from the King of from 50 to 100 livres and had the costs of their transportation covered. Many Daughters were poor, especially from Île-de-France and Normandy. They were considered "orphans" by virtue of having lost at least one parent, though not necessarily both. Some had both parents living.
A total of 737 Daughters were married in New France[1], mostly to farmers, and some to soldiers, most of them to soldiers of the Carignan-Salières Regiment.
There were also some groups of non-French Daughters. For instance, Marie de L'Incarnation wrote[2] that in 1668, there was one girl each from Holland, Germany, Spain and Portugal. Most of the girls were from middle or lower class families, and the dowry plus a certain degree of greater social freedom were enough to attract them to New France.
The women debarked in Québec City, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal, and most had few difficulties finding a husband, as single men waited at the docks to begin courting them. If both parties were satisfied with each other, they would seek out a notary to draw up a marriage contract, and usually were married with a few weeks of that in a religious ceremony at the church. Many filles du roi were married within a month of their arrival in New France.
An early problem in recruitment was adjustment to the new agricultural life. As Marie de L'Incarnation wrote, the filles du roi were mostly town-girls, and only a few of them knew how to do manual farm work. This problem eased in later years as more rural girls were recruited, but remained a problem.
There were approximately 300 more recruits who did not marry in New France; some had changes of heart before embarking from the ports of Normandy, some died during the journey, some returned to France to marry, and a few never did marry.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filles_du_roi
~ 100,000 Livres
1st building campaign 1664 - 1668, age 26 to 30, Compagnie des Indes occidentales - Company of Indies Western. The first building campaign of the Châteaux de Versailles or in English the Palace or Castle of Versailles (1664-1668) commenced with the Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée in English "Pleasures of the Enchanted Island" of 1664, a party that was held between 7th and 13th May 1664. The party was ostensibly given to celebrate the two queens of France — Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother and Marie-Thérèse, Louis XIV’s wife, but in reality celebrated the king’s mistress, Louise de La Vallière. The fête of the Plaisirs de l’Île enchantée is often regarded as a prelude to the War of Devolution, which Louis XIV waged against Spain. The first building campaign (1664-1668) saw alterations in the château and gardens in order to accommodate the 600 guests invited to the party (Nolhac, 1899, 1901; Marie, 1968; Verlet, 1985)
2nd building campaign 1669 - 1672, age 31 to 34, began a detailed renovation of the château.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture 1100's to 1500's for the ballroom at Belcourt Castle, probably developing from the Moorish Arabic architecture style.
http://belcourtcastle.com/ Modelled after the Hunting Lodge in the forest of Versailles of Florentine Architecture style of Louis XIII (September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643. His son Louis XIV built the palace chateaux around it in Versailles in the southwestern portion of Paris with Paris to the Northeast.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. It is also noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its world-famous castles, such as the Châteaux d'Amboise, Château de Villandry and Chenonceau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_Valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ch%C3%A2teaux_of_the_Loire_Valley Château of the Loire Valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27Azay-le-Rideau Château of Azay-le-Rideau Built 1518 - 1527
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27Amboise Château at Amboise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Villandry Château de Villandry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chenonceau Château de Chenonceau
Updated February 9, 2009 M
