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    Jacques de La Palice (or de La Palisse) (1470 – 24 February 1525) was a French nobleman and military officer. He was the lord of Chabannes, La Palice...
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  • from the name Jacques de la Palice, and the word is used in several languages. La Palice's epitaph reads "Ci-gît le Seigneur de La Palice: s'il n'était...
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  • (1641–1728) about alleged feats of French nobleman and military leader Jacques de la Palice (1470–1525). From that song came the French term lapalissade meaning...
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  • respectively named after the two castles acquired by Jacques: the lords of Chabannes de La Palice from Geoffroy (ca. 1433-1500), and lords of Curton from...
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    between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Jacques de la Palice. The battle was part of the Second Italian War...
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    Battle of the Spurs (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    (now Pas-de-Calais). Henry's camp was at Guinegate (present-day Enguinegatte). A large body of French heavy cavalry under Jacques de La Palice was covering...
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    during the fighting, however, left the French under the command of Jacques de la Palice, who, unwilling to continue the campaign without direct orders from...
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    skirmishing leading to the Battle of Marignano in 1515 his soldiers under Jacques de la Palice surprised and captured the Papal commander Prospero Colonna in a...
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    after the defeat in the Siege of Padua, the French Army's Marshal Jacques de la Palice left Veneto, moving to Milan. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I...
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    The Château de La Palice is a castle, developed into a château, in the commune of Lapalisse in the Allier department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region...
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