Claude Nau or Claude Nau de la Boisseliere (d. 1605) was a confidential secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, in England from 1575 to 1586. He was involved...
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Look up nau in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nau, NAU or nau may refer to: Nau (clothing retailer), an outdoor apparel company Nanjing Agricultural...
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recruited to Mary's service by Albert Fontenay, a brother of Mary's secretary Claude Nau. Fontenay mentioned his friends, Monsieur de l'Aubespine, Arnault, and...
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"fair ring with a diamond made like a heart". In 1577, Mary's secretary Claude Nau wrote to his brother in Paris for a heart-shaped or triangular diamond...
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specifically as a moveable bidet. The French secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, Claude Nau described her talking to the Countess of Huntly about their plans to escape...
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carry pistols, called "daggs". The appointed riders were Andrew Melville, Claude Nau, Gilbert Curle, and Bastian Pagez. One of his sisters, Elizabeth Curle...
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Scotland, driven by a climate of "extreme fear". Mary sent her secretary, Claude Nau, to speak for her with Elizabeth in London. The French ambassador Michel...
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Mary Stewart: From the Murder of Riccio Until Her Flight Into England by Claude Nau (Edinburgh, 1883), pp. 16, 227. Daniel, William S. (1852), History of...
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letters were probably put into cipher by Mary's secretaries Gilbert Curle, Claude Nau, and Jérôme Pasquier. In the ciphered texts Throckmorton was given the...
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goldsmith Robert Mangot made beads for Mary in 1551. In 1577, her secretary Claude Nau asked his brother in Paris to buy bracelets made in the latest fashion...
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