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Roquelaure(French pronunciation:[ʁɔkloʁ]; Ròcalaurain Gascon) is a communein the Gersdepartmentin southwestern France. Geography. [edit] Roquelaure and its surrounding communes. History. [edit] The village is situated on a rocky height near the site of an Iron-Ageoppidumand Gallo Romanvillaon the neighboring hill of La Ciotat (La Sioutat).
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, in the United States.
Antoine de Roquelaure ( Antòni de Ròcalaura in Occitan ), lord of Roquelaure, Gaudoux, Sainte-Christie, Mirepoix, Montbert, Baron of Lavardens and Biran (1544 – Lectoure, 1625) was an important sixteenth-century French statesman and close collaborator of Henry IV. He was made marshal of France in 1614 [1] by Louis XIII .
Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɡastɔ̃ də ʁɔklɔʁ]; 1656-6 May 1738) was a French nobleman and Marshal of France. He was also grandson to another Marshal, Antoine de Roquelaure . He was the son of Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1615-1683), Duke of Roquelaure and his wife Charlotte du Lude (died 1657).
Gerald's Game. Gerald's Game is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King. [ 1] The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over. The book is ...
Roque ( / roʊk / ROHK) is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, [ 1] it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing croquet from the previous games .
Louise de Roquelaure. Antoine de Gramont, 2nd Duke of Gramont, comte de Guiche, comte de Gramont, comte de Louvigny, Souverain de Bidache ( Antoine Agénor; 1604, Chateau d'Hagetmau – 12 July 1678, Bayonne) was a French military commander and diplomat. He served as Marshal of France from 1641, Viceroy of Navarre and Béarn, and Governor of ...
Father Roquelaure is a French fairy tale collected by Achille Millien. [1] It is a type 516 tale in the Aarne-Thompson classification system. [1] Others of this type are Trusty John [2] and The Raven. [1]