biography
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Orléans, Charles, duc d' (Duke of)
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pronunciation:
[aw(r)layã]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1391–1465)
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| biography:
| French soldier, nobleman, and poet, born in Paris, France. In 1406 he married his cousin Isabella, the widow of Richard II of England. He commanded at Agincourt (1415), and was taken prisoner and carried to England, where he lived for 25 years, composing courtly poetry in French and English. Ransomed in 1440, he then maintained a kind of literary court at Blois. His son became Louis XII. |
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