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    Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, that the baron was able to win over the sculptor Claude Michel to decorate his nymphaeum. Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart...
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    Baron de Besenval: Mémoires de M. Le Baron de Besenval, imprimerie de Jeunehomme, rue de Sorbonne no. 4, Paris, 1805 – chez F. Buisson, libraire, rue...
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    artist Théodore de Sommervieux falls in love with Augustine Guillaume, the daughter of a conservative cloth merchant, whose house of business on the rue Saint-Denis...
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    the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the intersection of Rue de Rivoli with Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is...
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    Louis of Couture") - they owned the biggest library in Paris. Hyacinthe Théodore Baron was the physician of this priory and was buried there in 1787. (in French)...
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    Honour in 1828. He died in 1855. Swiss geographic detail of Rue Abraham Constantin "Louis Théodore Abraham Constantin". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland...
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    This "quartier" of Paris got its name from the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It runs north-northwest from the Boulevard...
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    The Rue de Lille (Street of Lille) is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, in the upscale Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin and Invalides quarters...
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    part of a committee with Gustave Moynier, Henry Dunant, Louis Appia and Théodore Maunoir that discussed Dunant's ideas for the creation of a voluntary care...
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    village underwent major changes. Under the leadership of the Mayor, Dr. Théodore Labbey, significant work was undertaken including: the draining of marshes...
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    Barbizon School and the Impressionists. The Barbizon painters, led by Théodore Rousseau, militated against the planting of softwoods which had been carried...
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    the cutting of 13 metre-wide roads through Paris with the widening of the Rue Rambuteau in 1839, which was later named after him. This was the first time...
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    Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11–19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie...
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    Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (26 September 1723 – 19 December 1807) was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor...
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  • development Les Cigognes. RUE DE MILLO 15* Façades only 16 Villa des Pins* 24* Façades only 26 Villa Georgette* – 1899; architect: Théodore Gastaud. 29* Façades...
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    he was taken in by his uncle Benoît Chassériau, father of the painter Théodore Chassériau. The generals Jean-Baptiste Milhaud and Augustin-Daniel Belliard...
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    l'Oratoire du Louvre, is an historic Protestant church located at 145 rue Saint-Honoré – 160 rue de Rivoli in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, across the street...
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  • uncredited composer. The House on 92nd Street (1945) Kiss of Death (1947) 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) Dominic Frontiere Niagara (1953) – Frontiere is an uncredited...
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    John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB, FBA (/keɪnz/ KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally...
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    restaurants in Paris today appeared during the Belle Époque, including Maxim's on Rue Royale, Ledoyen in the gardens of the Champs-Élysées, and the Tour d'Argent...
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    Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (French: [ʒɔʁʒ kyvje]), was a French naturalist and...
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    established her maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon, Paris. In 1918, Chanel purchased the building at 31 rue Cambon, in one of the most fashionable districts...
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  • became its founding associates: Eugène Peclet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Théodore Olivier. Notably, Lavallée was a shareholder of Le Globe, which became...
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    Fontaine for Decameron Nights (1953) then returned home to France to make Rue de l'Estrapade (1953). After appearing in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)...
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    the 32nd Battalion of the Garde Nationale aged 60. He later retired to 3 rue d'Orléans in Asnières, where he died in 1887. Gringalet in Les Saltimbanques...
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    on the right bank, notably rue de la Ferronnerie (1st arr.), rue Saint-Honoré (1st arr.), rue du Mail (2nd arr.), and rue Saint-Louis-en-Île on the Île...
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    Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of...
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    Rue du Pré-de-la-Bataille is a public thoroughfare in the French commune of Rouen. Located in the western part of the city, it belongs to the Pasteur-Madeleine...
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    is a Roman Catholic church located on the place d'Estienne d'Orves, at 3 rue de la Trinité, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It was built between 1861...
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  • on the outcome. Guest stars: Dabney Coleman, Dena Dietrich, Dave Madden, Rue McClanahan, Gabriel Melgar, Heather Menzies, Connie Stevens, Robert Urich...
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