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Feast of the Pheasant

1454 CE · Europe · Culture

Feast of the Pheasant
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The Feast of the Pheasant was a banquet given by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy on 17 February 1454 in Lille, now in France. Its purpose was to promote a crusade against the Turks, who had taken Constantinople the year before. The crusade never took place.

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