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The duchess’ ghost
... Connetable de Montmorency is frequently absent on campaigns beside the future Henri IV, who is doing what he can to hasten the time in France when every home will have chicken stew ["poule au pot"]...
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The duchess’ ghost – part 2
According to Saint-Simon, Louise de Budos died a victim of the Evil One. As for Connetable de Montmorency's re-marriage with Laurence de Dizimieu, it was due to another spell...
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The duchess’ ghost – part 3
... The frightful position of the body when it is found could have been caused by an attack of hysteria or by diabolic possession, whose specialists would say that it engenders deployments of...
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Anne Boleyn’s ghost
... A few days before her death, Anne had written a poem in which she compares herself, in strangely premonitory fashion, to a "guiltless ghost". And, since 1536, this guiltless ghost has not ceased to...
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The Don Juan saint
... Don Miguel de Manara was a Sevillian who lived in the XVIIth Century and was better known by the name of Don Juan... That's right: Don Juan, the lover of a thousand and three women, rapist,...
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The Don Juan saint – part 2
... Don Miguel puts his fortune at the service of the poor, founds hospices, collects money for charity, cares for the sick, directs the convent of the Caridad with the same passion which formerly...
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UFOs in History
... Let us go back a few more years in time, but still staying in this rich period, into the XVIth Century which saw, it seems, a veritable epidemic of flying objects...
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Mermaids, mermen, nereids and tritons
... It can be read in "The Great Chronicle of the Netherlands" that in 1433, off the coast of Poland, a marine man, with palmed feet and hands, who let himself be touched by everybody, was fished. He...
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Charles IX of France’s black Mass – part 2
Charles IX of France. In Spring 1574, there is plotting everywhere and the troubles which are shaking the kingdom demand an urgent solution for the future. What is going to happen to the young...
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The Master of the Hunt
According to Sully, Henri IV met the Master of the Hunt in the Fontainebleau Forest. It is the 8 September 1598. A group of hunters are riding in the Fontainebleau Forest. At their head is a cavalier...
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