Place:Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Amboise is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home of the French royal court.

History

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Clovis I ( 466 – 511) and the Visigoths signed a peace treaty of alliance with the Arvernians in 503, which assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom in the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

Joan of Arc passed through in 1429 on her way to Orleans to the Battle of Patay.

Château du Clos Lucé was the residence of Leonardo da Vinci between 1516 and his death in 1519. Da Vinci died in the arms of King Francis I, and he was buried in a crypt near the Château d'Amboise. The house has lost some of its original parts, but it still stands today containing a museum of da Vinci's work and inventions, and has a beautiful view of the river Loire.

The Amboise conspiracy was the conspiracy of Condé and the Huguenots in 1560 against Francis II, Catherine de' Medici and the Guises.

The Château at Amboise was home to Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, for much of her early life, being raised there at the French court of Henry II. She arrived in France from Scotland in 1548, aged six, via the French king's favourite palace at Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris, and remained in France until 1561, when she returned to her homeland—sailing up the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh on 15 August that year.

The Edict of Amboise (1563) conceded the free exercise of worship to the Protestants.

Here was born in 1743 Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, known as Le Philosophe Inconnu (d. 1803).

Abd el Kader Ibn Mouhi Ad-Din (c. 1807 – 1883) was imprisoned at the Château d'Amboise.

In 2019, the 500th anniversary of da Vinci's death, Amboise held many events celebrating the master's life and his work completed in the town. The number of visitors to Château du Clos Lucé, for example, was estimated as 500,000 in 2019, a 30% increase over the typical annual number.

Personnes mentionnées dans les actes à cause de leur fonction locale

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Maires

Curés

(paroisse St-Denis)

• 1682, 1686 : René Deshayes, prêtre habitué et principal du collège
• 1682 : Carré
• 1682 : Jean Husson, prieur et curé
• 1684 : D. Gidoin
• 1685 : Julliotte, vicaire

(paroisse de Notre-Dame-en-Grève)

Instituteurs, maîtres ou recteurs d'école

Clercs

Médecins, chirurgiens, officiers de santé

Sages-femmes

Notaires

• 1629 : Jacques Gaillard, notaire au bailliage

Marguilliers, fabriciens

• 1642 : Pierre Langlois, marguillier de la paroisse Notre-Dame-en-Grève

Patronymes courants

Surnoms

Les surnoms n'ont pas qu'une fonction descriptive ou ironique. Ils permettent d'identifier des individus portant le même prénom et le même patronyme.

Défunts inhumés dans l'église et non au cimetière

• 1686 : René Deshayes, prêtre et principal du collège

External links

• For more information, see the FR Wikipedia article Amboise.

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