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Languedoc-Roussillon
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Languedoc-Roussillon Region of s France, extending from the Rhône valley to the foothills of the Pyrenees ; the capital is Montpellier...
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Roussillon, countess of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Roussillon, countess of, in Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well , Bertram's mother and Helena's guardian.
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Roussillon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Roussillon , small region and former province, S France, bordering on Spain along the Pyrenees and on the Mediterranean. It is now roughly...
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Majorca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...inheritance of James I of Majorca. It comprised the Balearic Islands, Roussillon and Cerdagne (between France and Spain), and several fiefs in S France. Perpignan, in Roussillon, was the capital. In 1343, Peter IV of Aragón took...
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house of Aragón
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...oacute;n had acquired various fiefs in S France, notably Roussillon, Provence, and Montpellier, and suzerainty over others...with other rulers in Spain. The kingdom of Majorca , with Roussillon and Cerdagne, was separate from 1276 to 1343; that of Sicily...
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James II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...James II 1315-49, king of Majorca (1324-49), count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, lord of Montpellier; grandson of James I...Aragón invaded and conquered Majorca (1343) and Roussillon (1344) and annexed them to Aragón. James tried...
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France
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...southwestern part of France comprises the small Pyrenean provinces of Roussillon , Foix , Béarn , and French Navarre and the vast...Haute-Normandie, Île-de-France , Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin , Lorraine , Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de...
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chansons de geste
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...centuries, generally dealing with the campaigns of Charlemagne . These anonymous narratives, of which some 80 survive, describe semi-fictional events in the lives of Guillaume d'Orange, Girart de Roussillon, Roland and others.
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Spain
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...France to the north, the boundary defined since 1659 by the crest of the Pyrenees, following Spain's cession to France of Roussillon and most of Cerdagne. To the west Spain borders Portugal, with the boundary running through rugged, sparsely inhabited...
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Simon, Claude
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...killed in World War I when Simon was not yet a year old, forcing Simon's mother to move the family to a relative's home in Roussillon. There, Simon attended public school and then went on to attend the Coll é ge Stanislas in Paris where he received...
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