Chastelard
or CHASTELET, PIERRE DE BOSCOSEL (shät-lär'), a French poet, nephew of the Chevalier Bayard, born about 1540. He was one of the French gentlemen who accompanied Mary Stuart on her return to her native country. The young and handsome poet fell in love with the beautiful queen, and in his madness, believing that his addresses were encouraged, he invaded the bedroom of Mary, was discovered, and ordered to quit the court.
CHÂTEAU-THIERRY history he wrote "An Essay on English Literature" and translated Milton's "Paradise Lost." He died in Paris, July 4, 1848. a CHÂTEAU-THIERRY, a French town on the right bank of the Marne in the department of the Aisne, 59 miles N. E. of Paris. It is notable as being the birthplace of La Fontaine and the scene of a battle in which Napoleon_de feated the Prussians and Russians, Russians, Feb. 12, 1814. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the German Emperor mad the town for a time his headquarters.
It is a center of the wine trade and its chief manufactures are woolen yarn, musical and scientific instruments. Stone is extensively quarried. Its population preceding the World War was 7,771.
The name of Château-Thierry will ever be associated in American minds with the memorable deeds done there by United States troops in the World War.
On May 31, 1918, American machine gun units were hurried in motor lorries to the town, the outskirts of which had already been reached by the advancing Germans. The little city lay on both Chastelard, however, again concealed sides of the Marne, which was spanned himself, Feb. 14, 1563, within a recess in the bedroom of Mary, at Burntisland.
For this offense, he was brought publicly to trial at St. Andrew's, sentenced to death, and hanged; the queen remaining inaccessible to all appeals for mercy on his behalf. death, CHÂTEAU, CHATEL, or CASTEL (shä-to'), from the Lat. castellum, "a fort," enters as a component part into many names of places in France. A "château en Espagne" is a castle in the air. The word is also applied to the residences of feudal lords and, in France, to country estates in general.