ARTOIS

ärtwäˈ, region and former province, in Pas-de-Calais dept., N France, near the English Channel, between Picardy and Flanders. Arras is the chief city. Largely agricultural, it contains diverse industries, and occupies part of the once-productive Franco-Belgian coal basin. Owned in the Middle Ages by the counts of Flanders, Artois was annexed (1180) to France by Philip II through marriage. Burgundy gained (14th cent.) the territory, also through marriage. Later it was under Austrian rule, and from 1493 until its conquest (1640) by Louis XIII it was under Spanish rule. Confirmation of French possession was made by the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659) and the Treaty of Nijmegen (1678). Renowned for its états (assembly), which met until the 18th cent., it declined in political importance thereafter. Of strategic significance in World War I, it was the scene of heavy fighting. The region gives its name to the artesian well, known there for centuries.

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books on: Artois  - 1142 results

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The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Clayton J. Drees; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval--Dictionaries, Europe--History--1492-1517--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--476-1492--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Social Conditions--To 1492--Dictionaries
...beginning of the Hundred Years War. Robert of Artois was bom in 1287, the only son of Philippe of Artois and Blanche of Brittany. Robert was bom...ternal grandfather was Count Robert II of Artois (1250-1302), the son of King Louis IXs...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 1
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...Nominally in command of a corps of cavalry, Artois accompanied the army of the princes that trailed...victory at Valmy 20 September 1792 and dashed Artois hopes of a quick return to Versailles. Artois and Provence must take some of the responsibility...
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The Chronicles of Froissart
Book by John Bourchier, G. C. Macaulay, Jean Froissart; Macmillan, 1899
Subjects: Europe--History--476-1492, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
...CHAPTER XXV How the lord sir Robert of Artois was chased out of the realm of France...crown of France was sir Robert earl of Artois, who was one of the most sagest and greatest...hatred against this nobleman sir Robert of Artois, for a plea that was moved before him...
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The Duke of Wellington and the British Army of Occupation in France, 1815-1818
Book by Thomas Dwight Veve; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: France--Foreign Relations--1814-1830, France--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, France--History--Louis Xviii, 1814-1824, Great Britain--Army--History--19th Century, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1800-1837, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--France, Great Britain--History, Military--19th Century, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Peace, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley--Duke Of--1769-1852
...the chambers was heated. The Count of Artois wrote to his brother, Louis XVIII, and...as minister of war. The king rejected Artois intervention into the debate and seemed...private domain of the kings brother, Artois. As commander-in-chief, Artois recruited...
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Economic and Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530)
Book by James Westfall Thompson; Century, 1931
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions, Europe--Social Conditions, Middle Ages--History
...was united to the royal domain with all Artois when Philip Augustus married Isabel of...merchandise passing by this town. But Artois with Bapaume, after having been governed...in apanage by him to his son Robert of Artois, and from 1237 to 1330 belonged to the...
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journal articles on: Artois  - 65 results

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What's in a Name?: The Development of Strategies of Attrition on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Journal article by Robert T. Foley; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Western front (World War I)--Analysis
...failure of the Anglo-French offensive in Artois in late spring began changing the opinions...Army and the British 1st Army attacked in Artois in an attempt to pierce the German line...supported by a diversionary attack in Artois, again to be carried out by the French...
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The History of the Major Rivers of Southern Britain during the Tertiary
Journal article by P. L. Gibbard, J. Lewin; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 160, 2003
Subjects: Drainage, Evolution, History, Rivers, Sediments, United Kingdom
...Anticline in the Paris Basin and the Weald-Artois Anticline (Ziegler 1978, 1987, 1994...Straw 1995) in the SW, and the Weald-Artois Anticline of the order of c. 180 m...Channel), not the north; the Weald-Artois Anticline ridge continued to form a major...
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The Beira Patrol
Journal article by Richard Mobley; Naval War College Review, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Embargoes & blockades, Maritime industry, Politics, Rhodesia-pre-1979, United Kingdom
...embarrassing incident in 1967 involving the French tanker Artois, London would authorize, if all else failed...HMS Minew challenged the French-flag tanker Artois as it made for Beira. Artois was not on the "innocent list " so Minerva requested...
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Functional and Historical Explanations for Village Social Organization in Northern Europe
Journal article by Robert Layton; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects: Northern Europe--Social aspects, Social action--History, Villages--Social aspects
...of a farmocracy in pre-Revolutionary Artois, where only three to four per cent...cent. of the soil (Jessenne 1983). In Artois the sheriff, the seigneurs representative...this only happened to a limited degree in Artois (Jessenne 1983: 709). Franche-Comte...
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An Introduction to British Library Ms Lansdowne 380
Journal article by Kathleen Sewright; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 65, 2009
Subjects: Libraries, Poetry
...de Renty (of the oldest family of the Artois region of France) in the fourteenth century...possessions of Seninghem and Sempy in the Artois, as well as Renty.110 These territories...Tournehem and governor of the county of Artois.112 It certainly did not hurt the fortunes...
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magazine articles on: Artois  - 47 results

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The Battle of the Golden Spurs: July 11th, 1302
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 52, July 2002
Subjects: Battles--Belgium, Edward I, King of England--Foreign relations, Flanders--History, France--History, Guy, Count of Flanders--Foreign relations, Massacres--Belgium, Philip, King of France--Military policy, Robert of Artois--Military policy
...was massacred in May 1302. A powerful army under Robert of Artois arrived to put the Flemings in their place. When it reached...the water and the marshes. They gave no quarter and Robert of Artois himself and more than seven hundred French knights were killed...
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Galway Film Fleadh Preview
Magazine article; Film Ireland, May/Jun 2005
...available on www.galwayfilmfleadh.com Stella Artois Pitching Award Galway Film Fleadh is pleased to announce a new sponsorship deal with Stella Artois, for 2005 and beyond. The Stella Artois Pitching Award is an innovative development...
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Foyle Film Festival Report
Magazine article; Film Ireland, January 2006
...Festival were the winners of the Stella Artois Film Awards. This was the debut year...which have been established by Stella Artois to recognise and reward excellence across...Nicola Trainor (Brand Manager for Stella Artois in Ireland) congratulated not only the...
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The Princely Court in Northern Europe, 1270-1380: Malcolm Vale Argues That the Spectacular Culture of the Early Modern Court Had Its Origins in the Medieval Princely Household
Magazine article by Malcolm Vale; History Today, Vol. 52, July 2002
Subjects: Courts and courtiers--Travel, Henry VIII, King of England--Homes and haunts, Louis XIV, King of France--Homes and haunts, Royal houses--Europe
...early fourteenth centuries, the counts of Artois kept a wolf, wild cats and monkeys and...succeeded to the counties of Flanders and Artois on the death of his father-in-law...England, or the northern French counts of Artois, at an earlier date, comes close to...
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The Word of God in Pictures
Magazine article by Gloria Cigman; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Bible (Sacred text)--History, Catholic Church in France--History, Desmoulins, Guiart--Works
...of Saint-Pierre dAire-sur-Lys (Artois). Guiarts massive compilation, the...One line of enquiry might begin in the Artois area, and in particular Aire, where...where Mahaut, daughter of Robert II of Artois (nephew of St Louis) and Countess of...
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Jobs Trouble Brewing as InBev Swallows Bud; It's a Deal: Stella Artois Brewer InBev Has Finally Captured Budweiser Producer Anheuser- Busch with an Improved [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; July 14, 2008
Subjects: Beer, Breweries, Brewing industry, Stella Artois
...Trouble Brewing as InBev Swallows Bud; Its a Deal: Stella Artois Brewer InBev Has Finally Captured Budweiser Producer Anheuser...wrangling. The deal to bring together the makers of Stella Artois and Bud puts intensepressure on SABMiller, the Londonbased...
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Win Stella Artois Finals Day Tickets Then Watch Greats Becker and McEnroe Roll Back the Years
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 31, 2005
Subjects: Becker, Boris, McEnroe, John
Win Stella Artois Finals Day Tickets Then Watch Greats Becker...first time on grass at the 2005 Stella Artois Championships. Britains Henman and Greg...Standard Sport has teamed up with Stella Artois to give you the chance to see the climax...
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Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Championships
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 5, 2006
Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Championships. SIX of the worlds top 10 tennis players will contest the Stella Artois Championships from 12-18 June, which...Standard Sport has teamed up with Stella Artois to give you the chance to see the climax...
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Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Championships
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 7, 2006
Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Championships. SIX of the worlds top 10 tennis players will contest the Stella Artois Championships from 12-18 June, which...Standard Sport has teamed up with Stella Artois to give you a final chance to see the...
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Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Tennis Championships at Queen's
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 6, 2006
Win VIP Tickets to the Stella Artois Tennis Championships at Queens. SIX of...tennis players will contest the Stella Artois Championships from 12-18 June, which...Standard Sport has teamed up with Stella Artois to give you another chance to see the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Artois  - 24 results

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Artois
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARTOIS artwa , region and former province, in Pas-de-Calais dept., N France...Belgian coal basin. Owned in the Middle Ages by the counts of Flanders, Artois was annexed (1180) to France by Philip II through marriage. Burgundy gained...
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Mary of Burgundy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...prepared to annex the Low Countries, Artois, Luxembourg, and Franche-Comte Marys...Treaty of ), by which Franche-Comte and Artois passed to France. Marys premature death...of Senlis (1493) with France restored Artois and Franche-Comte to Philip, but Burgundy...
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Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...later Philip I of Castile) inherited Flanders , Brabant , Artois , Hainaut , the duchy of Luxembourg , Limburg , Holland , and...to the United Provinces at the Peace of Westphalia (1648); Artois and parts of Hainaut and Luxembourg provs. to France at the...
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Flanders
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...size in the course of its history and at one time also included Artois and parts of Picardy. In Belgian Flanders, Dutch is spoken...succession to Flanders in the 12th cent. resulted in the loss of Artois and other districts and towns in W and S Flanders to the French...
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Francis I , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to Charles, and abandoned his suzerainty over Flanders and Artois. Resolved to violate a treaty signed under duress, Francis...which Francis relinquished his claims to Naples, Flanders, and Artois. Peace with England (1546) confirmed the loss of Boulogne...
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