Picardy

Master Simon Sanguin, the Elector of Picardy, with his wife on the crupper!"

The regiments of Picardy, Navarre, Normandy, and Royal Vaisseau, followed after.

Peter Karsdale, who was but a common country lout newly brought over, with the English fleas still hopping under his doublet, laid his great hands upon the Sieur Amaury de Chatonville, who owns half Picardy, and had five thousand crowns out of him, with his horse and harness.

You may see in certain Flemish pictures the wives of burgomasters cut out by nature on the same pattern and wonderfully reproduced on canvas; but these dames wear fine robes of velvet and precious stuffs, whereas Madame Saillard possessed no robes, only that venerable garment called in Touraine and Picardy "cottes," elsewhere petticoats, or skirts pleated behind and on each side, with other skirts hanging over them.

"Because I have been fool enough to marry in Picardy."

"While his Eminence was seeking for me in Paris, I would take, without sound of drum or trumpet, the road to Picardy, and would go and make some inquiries concerning my three companions.

Within ten years Poulain abandoned his position as cure in Picardy, converted to Calvinism, and fled from the hostile environment of Paris to Geneva.

He was made abbot of Centula (Saint-Riquier), Picardy, in 794.

Despite the misleading title, this important book deals with just one province, Picardy. David Potter traces the transformation of this amorphous collection of sovereignties from disputed territory left by the collapse of the Burgundian state into France's premier bastion against the Burgundians' Habsburg successors.

Principal battles: Ceresole (Ceresole Alba) (1544); Renty (in Picardy) (1554); Saint-Quentin (1557); Dreux (1562); Saint-Denis (just outside Paris) (1567); Jarnac, La Roche-l'Abeille (La Roche-Abeille), Moncontour (1569); Arnay le Duc (1570).

PICARDY FOR PS235 (saving PS101) October half-term in Picardy is the deal on seven-night holidays starting on October 25 for two adults and up to four children with Venue Holidays.