Tour de Jean-Sans-Peur

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Tower of John the Fearless, we can see at 20 rue Etienne Marcel, is all that remains of the medieval Parisian residence of Burgundy Djukov. The tower was built on the orders of John the Fearless in 1409, in the midst of the Hundred Years War. The one that began during the reign of King Charles V, who built a fortress and the residence of the Bastille Saint-Paul, in the place where is now the village of Saint-Paul in the first quarter Mare.Stoletnyaya war ended thanks to the victories of Joan of Arc over the English. By the way, some historians believe that Joan of Arc was born in Saint-Paul's residence and was the daughter of Queen wife of Charles VI the Mad and the brother of King Louis Orleanskogo.Zakazav murder of Louis d'Orleans, brother of King Charles the Sixth madman, John the Fearless hopes to hide in the walls of the tower from its enemies. Duke ipolnitsya plan is not - he would be killed at the time when it is not in the tower.