1. The development of the Rambouillet breed started in 1786, when Louis XVI purchased over 300 Spanish Merinos (318 ewes, 41 rams, seven wethers) from his cousin, King Charles III of Spain.

2. Following the failure of the recent Rambouillet peace summit, the conflict in the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh -- between Azerbaijan, which lays claim to the province, and the separatist Armenian majority, which controls it -- shows no signs of abating.

3. The Map of Tendre (Carte de Tendre or Carte du Tendre) was a French map of an imaginary land called Tendre produced by several hands (including Catherine de Rambouillet).It appeared as an engraving (attributed to François Chauveau) in the first part of Madeleine de Scudéry's 1654-61 novel Clélie.The map represents the path towards love according to the précieuses of the time period.