• Jean-Laurent Le Geay (c. 1710 – after 1786) was a French neoclassical architect with an unsatisfactory career largely spent in Germany. His artistic personality...
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    Lafrance 1871 – Laurent-Honoré Marqueste 1872 – Jules Coutan 1873 – Jean-Antoine-Marie Idrac 1874 – Jean Antoine Injalbert 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Hugues...
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    he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French Classical architecture...
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    venerate; it was built according to sketches by the French architect Jean-Laurent Le Geay, who had laid out the formal garden at Schwerin in 1749–55, but was...
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    Peyre; later he studied with Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and with Jean-Laurent Le Geay. After having obtained the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1752...
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    Saint-Jean-d'Angély (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dɑ̃ʒeli] ; Saintongeais: Sént-Jhan-d'Anjhéli) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern...
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    Geay (French pronunciation: [ʒɛ]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Communes of the Deux-Sèvres...
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    candidate for the election of the Presidency of the Republic. The director Laurent Cantet was born here as well as the archaeologist Gaston Deschamps (1861–1931)...
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    (79102) Courlay (79103) Faye-l'Abbesse (79116) La Forêt-sur-Sèvre (79123) Geay (79131) Genneton (79132) Glénay (79134) Largeasse (79147) Loretz-d'Argenton...
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    Dœuil-sur-le-Mignon (French pronunciation: [dœj syʁ lə miɲɔ̃]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the...
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    Queen Radagonde who raised him to the same rank as the other bishops or "Les Evêques" who were present. Hence the name Mairé-L'Evescault. The monastery...
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    Geay (French pronunciation: [ʒɛ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente-Maritime department...
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    Le Chay (French pronunciation: [lə ʃɛ]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente-Maritime department...
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  • Azay-le-Brûlé (French pronunciation: [azɛ lə bʁyle]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Communes...
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    Les Mathes (French pronunciation: [le mat]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. The...
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    mairie and law courts. It was founded in the 11th century. The Église Saint-Laurent is a parish church in the centre of the town which is believed to date...
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    southwestern France. The historian Jean Glénisson (1921–2010) was born in Jonzac as well as the philosopher Jean Hyppolite (1907–1968) The river Seugne...
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    Le Château-d'Oléron (French pronunciation: [lə ʃɑto dɔleʁɔ̃]; Occitan: Lo Chasteu d'Olairon) is a commune located on the Island of Oléron, in the Charente-Maritime...
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  • Les Groseillers (French pronunciation: [le ɡʁozɛje]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department...
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  • Le Chillou is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department "Répertoire...
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    Stanley, Countess of Derby (1599–1664) Prosper Depredomme (1918–1997), cyclist Jean-Hugues Anglade (born 1955), actor Thouars is also the final resting place...
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    Les Éduts (French pronunciation: [le.z‿edy]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente-Maritime...
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  • Le Fouilloux (French pronunciation: [lə fuju]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Communes of the Charente-Maritime...
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    France. Jean René Constant Quoy, marine doctor and naturalist Communes of the Charente-Maritime department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires"...
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    privileges of the city in November 1372. In 1402, the French adventurer Jean de Béthencourt left La Rochelle and sailed along the coast of Morocco to...
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    Les Nouillers (French pronunciation: [le nuje]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France...
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    Les Fosses (French pronunciation: [le fos]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Communes of...
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  • Le Retail (French pronunciation: [lə ʁətaj]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. It is situated some 7 km south of Secondigny...
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    the station of La Pointe-de-Grave at Le Verdon-sur-Mer connects through the Médoc region to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean station. The Tramways de Royan provided...
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    Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré (French pronunciation: [lə bwa plaʒ ɑ̃ ʁe]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern...
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