In August 1572, Paris celebrated the wedding between the Protestant Henry of Bourbon, King of Navarre, and Margaret of Valois ...

Nevertheless, these kings and queens stood at the crossroads between the conclusion of “barbaric” antiquity and the Middle Ages, where the foundations of France were being laid. “The lazy kings” ...

In 1589, at the death of Henry III of France, the House of Valois became extinct in the male line. Under the Salic law, the head of the House of Bourbon, as the senior representative of the ...

The Pacte de Famille is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain. As part of the settlement of the War of the Spanish Succession that brought the ...

Catherine, who ruled Russia for 34 long years, made the country a powerful nation but her ‘benevolence’ was different ...

Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre (1518-1562), King of Navarre; father of Henry IV, King of France. Sitter in 1 portrait.

The county was given its name in 1785 in thanks for France's assistance to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. Another rumor states that the whiskey got its name instead from Bourbon Street in ...

French Royal Henry IV of France was born Henri de Bourbon on 13th December, 1553 in Château de Pau, Pau, Béarn, France and passed away on 14th May 1610 Palais du Louvre, Paris, France aged 56. He is ...

102.2 x 75.7 cm. (40.2 x 29.8 in.) ...

From an 18th-century Spanish carriage to a luxurious photo safari in Namibia, the retailer is bringing fantasy to life with a ...