The marriage treaty of King and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of John IV of Portugal, was signed. The treaty gave England a huge financial dowry, the important strategic and trading posts of Tangier in Africa and Bombay in India, and free trade with Brazil and the East Indies. In return, England promised to help defend Portugal from Spain.
In May of the following year Catherine arrived in Portsmouth where the couple were married in a public Anglican ceremony and a secret Catholic one. Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, (known as Josephine de Beauharnais), was born in les Trois-Îlets, Martinique. Her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, was during the and in 1796 she married .
Death of society hostess Lady Hester Stanhope. The niece of Pitt the Younger, she has spent the last 25 years of her life in the Lebanon. French dramatist Jean Anouilh was born near Bordeaux.
His best-known play is his 1944 work Antigone, an adaptation of the classical drama by Sophocles but also an allegorical attack on Petain’s collaborationist government. It was about 5.30 in the morning when ’s plane landed at the edge of Paris.
Three large Mercedes cars were waiting to take the conqueror into town, and the Nazi dictator knew exactly where he wanted to go first – the opera. As he told his minister, Albert Speer, Charles Garnier’s neo-baroque opera house was his favourite building in Paris. And now that the French capital had fallen to Germany’s all-conquering army, Hitler h.
