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    The Tour de Nesle (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də nɛl]) was one of the four large guard towers on the old city wall of Paris, constructed at the beginning...
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    The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret, Blanche, and Joan, the daughters-in-law of King...
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  • La Tour de Nesle is a drama in five acts and nine tableaux, based on the circumstances of the Tour de Nesle Affair. It was written by Frédéric Gaillardet [fr]...
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    His final year saw a scandal amongst the royal family, known as the Tour de Nesle affair, in which King Philip's three daughters-in-law were accused of...
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  • was a Norman knight implicated in a French royal scandal known as the Tour de Nesle affair. In the court of Philip IV of France, Philip of Aunay was the...
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    father by Grand Chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny. Louis' first wife, Margaret, implicated in the Tour de Nesle affair, was found guilty of infidelity...
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    youth, doubts regarding her paternity (her mother was involved in the Tour de Nesle Affair), and the Estates General's determination that women should be...
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    castrated and beheaded, and their bodies were exposed on a gibbet (Tour de Nesle Affair). The extreme severity of their punishment was due to the lèse...
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    The Tour du coin, Right Bank, near the Louvre (Quai François Mitterrand) The Tour de Nesle, Left Bank (Quai de Conti) On the east side: The Tour Barbeau...
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    former location of the Hôtel de Nesle. According to historians, an underground passage going to the Tour de Nesle existed at de number 13 of the street and...
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