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Burghers of Calais

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Burghers of Calais

In the midst of the 100 year war between France and England Edward III had the city of Calais besieged and starved.  His terms were that six of the principal citizens should surrender themselves, stripped of their finery, ropes around their necks and carrying the keys to the city and to the castle.  They expected death but Edward’s queen, Philippa of Hainault, persuaded him to spare them.

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Burghers of Calais

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Burghers of Calais

Created for the town square in Calais following France's devastating defeat i...

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Private Arthur Frederick Noakes

Private Arthur Frederick Noakes

The Hampton Wick Remembers website gives much information about this soldier. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website confirms that he died, aged 19 years on 5 May 1918 and is buried in Pl...

Person, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro

French Impressionist painter.  Born in the Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) to a French father, a merchant, and Creole mother.  With Danish nationality he avoided the Prussian invasion o...

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Caribbean Islands, Denmark, France

4 memorials
Alexis Kow

Alexis Kow

From Velocetoday we learn: Kow was born near St. Petersburg as Alexis Kojewnikow (or Kogeynikow) and was studying in Switzerland when the 1917 Russian revolution happened. He went on to Paris where...

Person, Art, Sculpture, France, Russia

1 memorial
Charles X of France

Charles X of France

Last Bourbon King of France. Born Versailles. With the support of George III, he lived in Edinburgh and London to escape the revolutionary wars in France, 1792 - 1814. The monarchy was restored in ...

Person, Royalty, France, Italy, Scotland

1 memorial
Samuel Gurney Snr

Samuel Gurney Snr

Banker and philanthropist. Born near Norwich. Father of Samuel and of Catherine who married Edward, the son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. Died Paris, returning, ill, from a stay in Nice.

Person, Philanthropy, France

1 memorial