His collection of Poems is dedicated to the Duke of Montausier, the tutor of the dauphin and governor of Normandy.
The Cercle falls largely in the dryer Sahel region, especially in its north, where the population is mostly Fula and Maure pastoralists.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure (died 1173) was a 12th-century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure de Touraine near Tours, France.
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The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon, west of Tours.
Becoming marquis de Montausier at the death of his elder brother in 1635, he was the recognised aspirant for the hand of the Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet|
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Having served under Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in Germany in 1634, he returned to the French service in 1636, and fought in the Rhenish campaigns of the following years.
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Montausier received from Louis XIV the order of the Saint Esprit, the government of Normandy, a dukedom, and in 1668 the office of governor of the dauphin, Louis le Grand Dauphin (1661-1711).
Hercule Mériadec died at Sainte-Maure aged sixty nine and was succeeded by his son, Jules.
It covers some 30,000 km2, and is home to Bambara and Sarakole (Soninké) peoples, as well as semi-nomadic Maure and Fula peoples, engaged in farming and livestock raising.
Saint-Maure is a neighbourhood in the village of Balmoral, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier | Maure | Sainte-Maure |
He had inherited the Seigneury of Lotbinière, rendering fealty and homage in 1724, and he also held land in the Seigneury of Maure.
The flag is of medieval origin, and is composed of the St. George Cross and four heads of blindfolded Blackamoors (or Maures) which in the past were turned towards the left.