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    Amboise (US: /ɒ̃ˈbwɑːz/; French: [ɑ̃bwaz] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home...
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    The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in...
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    The Amboise conspiracy, also called Tumult of Amboise, was a failed attempt by a Huguenot faction in France to gain control over the young King Francis...
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    and was also at the coronation. Later he supported the repression of the Amboise conspiracy of 1560, notably by going to the Parlement to communicate to...
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    Ambroise Paré (redirect from Amboise Paré)
    Ambroise Paré (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II...
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  • association football club founded in 1920. They are based in the town of Amboise and their home stadium is the Stade Georges Boulogne. As of the 2009–10...
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  • Adelais of Amboise (sometimes called Aelinde) (fl. 865), came from an influential Frankish family in the Loire Valley. Through her mother, whose name...
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    appointed Lieutenant-General of France. In 1560, a group of Huguenot nobles at Amboise had planned to try to abduct King Francis II and arrest the Catholic leaders...
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    The House of Amboise was one of the oldest families of the French nobility whose followed filiation dated back to the early twelfth century. It took its...
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    Touraine-Amboise (French pronunciation: [tuʁɛn ɑ̃bwaz]) is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for in the Loire Valley wine region in France. It...
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