Troyes in a sentence

Rosh yeshiva He returned to Troyes at the age of 25, after which time his mother died, and he was asked to join the Troyes Beth din (rabbinical court).

The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner has since been suspended by the club and is set to play no part this weekend against Troyes.

Indeed, he said last season that he signed for Troyes, despite interest from Arsenal, to try and play for City; the CFG have a 47 percent stake in Girona and their chairman is Pere Guardiola.

The 19-year-old has helped fuel Girona's unlikely La Liga title bid during his loan stint from French club Troyes.

Gabriel made 34 appearances in all competitions for Lille last season as they finished fourth in Ligue 1. He also had loan spells at French club Troyes and Croatian side Dinamo Zagreb during his three-year stay at Lille.

Angers moved out of the relegation zone with a 3-1 home win against Troyes, which dropped into the bottom three.

A number of years ago, a Sorbonne professor discovered an ancient map depicting the site of the cemetery, which now lay under an open square in the city of Troyes.

But the army was in luck: a wandering friar named Brother Richard had been preaching about the end of the world at Troyes and convinced local residents to plant beans, a crop with an early harvest.

Henry V did not live to be crowned King of France himself, as he might confidently have expected after the Treaty of Troyes, because the sickly Charles VI, to whom he had been named heir, survived him by two months.

In March 1686, the French sent a raiding party under the Chevalier des Troyes over convert to capture the HBC posts along James Bay.

In several early French works, such as Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

The army was in short supply of food by the time it reached Troyes.

The citizens of Troyes hand over city keys to the Dauphin and Joan.

The nine most important works from the first group are: * The Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes.

The only reason given for the centuries-old tradition that he was a vintner being not true is that the soil in all of Troyes is not optimal for wine growing grapes, claimed by the research of Rabbi Haym Soloveitchik.

The Regency Council attempted to install Henry VI as the King of France, as provided by the Treaty of Troyes signed by his father Henry V, and led English forces to take over areas of France.

Troy weight may take its name from the French market town of Troyes in France where English merchants traded at least as early as the early 9th century.