A cup-bearer was historically an officer of high rank in royal courts, whose duty was to pour and serve the drinks at the royal table. On account of the...

Commonwealth and upon Anjou's return as Henri III of France he became first an échanson (cup-bearer) in 1574 then gentilhomme de la chambre by 1577 before finally...

quartier, the Grand panetier, the Premier écuyer tranchant and the Grand échanson (three offices that had become purely honorific in the Early Modern period)...

Henri III. He served in the new king's household as either an écuyer or échanson (squire or cupbearer) before becoming a gentilhomme de la chambre (gentleman...

hunting lodges. Grand Louvetier of France, master of the wolf hunt Grand Échanson, the royal cup-bearer. Grand Maitre des Eaux et des Forêts, in charge of...

25 Pas des mariscos —no.26 Danse sarrasine —no.27 Pandéros —no.28 Les échansons (originally conceived by Petipa as a Danse orientale, being a variation...

exploited for 200 years. The wine museum is owned by the Conseil des Echansons de France since 1984, a wine brotherhood gathering Amateur Wine purists...

écangueur écanguage écangueuse échafaud "scaffold" échafaudage échafauder échanson "cupbearer" écharpe "scarp" échasse "tressel" échassier échevin "alderman...

Malvoisin in 1542. On 25 July 1544, Philibert du Croc was appointed as échanson (cup-bearer) of the Dauphin, Duke of Brittany, who became Henry II, king...

Morey-Saint-Denis, former president of the Cadets de Bourgogne and Grand Echanson of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin), who had been working at the...