Robert Knecht
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Margaret M. McGowan (Yale University Press) 330pp £35.00 ISBN 978 030 011557 4 Published January 14 2009
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In the event Spain and Portugal divided almost all of South America between, them but in the sixteenth century the French also had commercial and colonial ambitions in Brazil. Robert Knecht tells the stories of two French expeditions that ended in disaster. Published November 12 2008
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Robert Knecht describes the shortcomings of Henry III, the last Valois king, and the circumstances that led him to become the first – but not the last – French monarch to die at the hands of one of his subjects.
Published July 14 2008
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Few works of art are as closely linked to history as the gold salt cellar commissioned by Francis I of France in 1541 from the Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini. Its theft three years ago from an Austrian art gallery is a major loss to world heritage as Robert Knecht explains.
Published January 13 2006
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Robert Knecht visits two of France’s most remarkable châteaux, which stand as monuments to the ambitions of their upwardly mobile creators Thomas Bohier and Nicolas Fouquet.
Published May 18 2004
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Robert Knecht looks at the ‘eminence rouge’ and considers how his image, carefully crafted during his lifetime, has become that of a demonic schemer.
Published February 19 2003
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Robert Knecht describes his quest to unravel a mystery originating in the French defeat in the Battle of the Nations.
Published March 18 2002
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