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Château d' Ancy-Le-Franc
An Italian Renaissance house and garden near Auxerre, in Burgundy. The architect was Serlio, who was employed at the court of Francis I. The house and garden were commissioned by ...
Château d' Anet
A Renaissance chateau some 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Paris. It was built between 1546 and 1552 by Henri II for his mistress Diane de Poitiers. The house and ...
Château de Chenonceaux
The chateau was built by Thomas Bohier between 1513 and 1521. The site is the river Cher, which the chateau spans. After the death of Bohier and his widow the ...
Diane De Poitiers (1499–1560) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(1499–1560).
The middle‐aged mistress of Henri II, over whom she seems to have cast a spell. The
Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
during Henri II’s reign (1547–59), daughter of the comte de Saint-Vallier, himself a bibliophile. Her library remained
Diane de Poitiers Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
(1499–1566),
Duchess of Valentinois, born into a noble family in the Dauphiné. In 1515 she married Louis de Brézé...
Henri II
(1519–59),King of France, the second son of Francis I and Queen Claude; he was the younger brother of François, the dauphin. In 1526, at the age of 7, he ...
Jean François Fernel
(1497–1558),French physician and applied mathematician, the son of an innkeeper who studied medicine at the University of Paris, where he was appointed professor of medicine in 1534. He became ...
Jean Goujon
(b c.1510; d ?Bologna, ?1568).French sculptor. He ranks second only to Germain Pilon as the greatest French sculptor of the 16th century and he created a distinctive Mannerist style as sophisticated ...
Philibert Delorme
(c.1505–70) French High Renaissance architect from a family of master masons.After launching his career in Lyon (Hôtel Bulliod, 1536) he was called to Paris by du Bellay (1540) who ...
umbrellas
The purpose of the modern umbrella is to protect its holder from rain, but, as the etymology of the word (Latin umbra, i.e. shade) indicates, it was originally intended to ...
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