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Va·lois 1

 (văl′wä, väl-wä′)
A French ruling dynasty (1328-1589) that succeeded the Capetian line when Philip VI ascended to the throne.

Va·lois 2

 (văl′wä′, väl-wä′)
A historical region and former duchy of northern France. A county from the 10th to the 12th century, it was an appanage of the royal house of Valois after 1285.
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Valois

(French valwa)
n
(Placename) a historic region and former duchy of N France

Valois

(French valwa)
n
(Biography) a royal house of France, ruling from 1328 to 1589

Valois

(ˈvælwɑː)
n
(Biography) See de Valois
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Va•lois

(vælˈwɑ)

n.
1. a member of a ruling family of France that reigned 1328–1589.
2. a medieval county and duchy in N France.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Valois - French royal house from 1328 to 1589Valois - French royal house from 1328 to 1589
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
Henry II - king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)
Henry III - son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589)
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Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others.
The Chevalier de Valois of Alencon was accepted by the highest aristocracy of the province as a genuine Valois; and he distinguished himself, like the rest of his homonyms, by excellent manners, which proved him a man of society.
Though his long slim legs, supporting a lank body, and his pallid skin, were not indicative of health, Monsieur de Valois ate like an ogre and declared he had a malady called in the provinces "hot liver," perhaps to excuse his monstrous appetite.
In spite of these symptoms, Monsieur de Valois' constitution was vigorous, consequently long-lived.
Besides, the Chevalier de Valois redeemed those negroes' heads by so many other graces that society felt itself sufficiently compensated.
Monsieur de Valois gathered the fruit of his misfortunes.
If some one asked Monsieur de Valois to do him a little service which might have discommoded him, that some one did not part from the worthy chevalier without being truly enchanted with him, and quite convinced that he either could not do the service demanded, or that he should injure the affair if he meddled in it.
Many of his friends (he was by that time dead, you will please remark) have contested mordicus this curious fact, declaring it to be a fable, and upholding the Chevalier de Valois as a respectable and worthy gentleman whom the liberals calumniated.
Every one rejoiced frankly at this windfall for Monsieur de Valois, who went about consulting moneyed people as to the safest manner of investing this fragment of his past opulence.
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In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois.
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"Well, my lord, my friend has three magnificent estates: that of Vallon, at Corbeil; that of Bracieux, in the Soissonais; and that of Pierrefonds, in the Valois. Now, my lord, he would like to have one of his three estates erected into a barony."
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On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion, and beside it lay a copy of Les Cent Nouvelles, bound for Margaret of Valois by Clovis Eve and powdered with the gilt daisies that Queen had selected for her device.
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