Charolais in A Sentence

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    By lunchtime you should be clear of these hills and into the rolling pastureland of the Charolais - where the famous cattle come from.

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    In his father's lifetime he bore the title of count of Charolais.

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    In the meanwhile the count of Charolais obtained the surrender of Ponthieu.

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    On three different occasions (in 1465, 1467 and 1472), Louis XI.s own brother, the duke of Berry, urged by the duke of Brittany, the count of Charolais, the duke of Bourbon, and the other feudal lords, attempted to set up six kingdoms in France instead of one, and to impose upon Louis XI.

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    She was almost destitute, but was courteously treated by Charles the Bold, then count of Charolais, and so made her way to her father in France.

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    The repurchase in 1463 of the towns of the Somme (to which Philip the Good, now grown old and engaged in a quarrel with his son, the count of Charolais, had felt obliged to consent on consideration of receiving four hundred thousand gold crowns), and the intrigues of Louis XI.

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    This proceeding infuriated Philip's son Charles, count of Charolais, who prevailed upon his father to break his pledge and declare war on the king of France.