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    Louvre (redirect from Musee du Louvre)
    Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is...
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    Healing the Sick, by Léon Fagel (1851–1913) Christ with Child (Pieta) Cardinal Guibert, leading proponent of the basilica, holding its model Saint Hubert...
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    Flamboyant (category Gothic architecture in Portugal)
    throughout. Transept pier and vaults, Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Chapelle du Saint-Esprit, Rue Auch (Gers), Auch Cathedral (except the façade) Beauvais...
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    assassination near Les Halles marketplace in 1610. During the 17th century, Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII, was determined to make Paris the...
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    Louis XV (category French people of Portuguese descent)
    by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time...
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    a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by...
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    Church of the Grands-Augustins, in Paris : Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, prince du sang, cardinal (1548), former bishop of Nantes (1550–1554), archbishop...
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    Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (category Burials at the Chapelle royale de Dreux)
    kings and their family. The heart of the Duke of Orléans is now at the Chapelle Royale de Dreux, the necropolis of all the members of the Orléans family...
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    la navigation et du commerce) orders the merger of the remaining 100 companies to form the Régiment de La Marine, of which the Cardinal was the Mestre de...
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    Louis XIV, and three Florentine marble marquetry tables from the palace of Cardinal Mazarin. The gallery also contains a large collection of meteorites, gathered...
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    consequently returned much of his gains in the May 1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The terms were agreed to by Emperor Leopold I in January 1668, reinforced...
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    Viviers-du-Lac and Tresserve. Finally, in the west, there are two communes bordering Aix, across the lake. These are Bourdeau, La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat...
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    duchess had also rebuffed Monseigneur's offers to host the wedding at the Chapelle royale de Dreux or to commission the wedding gown from a major French haute...
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    Jean Le Veneur (category 16th-century French cardinals)
    the people through his preaching. Cardinal Le Veneur defended Picart, but he was opposed by the Chancellor Cardinal du Prat, by the King's Confessor Guillaume...
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    Principale dite aussi ancienne chapelle des Pénitents blancs, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Chapelle des Pénitents-Gris, Ministère...
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    full collection will be housed in a specially constructed annex in the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, situated nearby: the expected opening is in 2013...
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    Jews, but remorsefully told the story to the parson of Notre-Dame de la Chapelle in Brussels, who took possession of the hosts. The Duke of Brabant, on...
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    Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    this, Turenne was unable to save Condé and Quesnoy, but he did take La Chapelle, which Condé failed to relieve, and prevented the fall of St. Guislain...
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    Henri Grégoire (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    fresh armed intervention in France under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. To prevent this, Louis XVIII decided on a modification of the franchise;...
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    France (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    (2 million), Pont du Gard (1.5 million), Arc de Triomphe (1.2 million), Mont Saint-Michel (1 million), Sainte-Chapelle (683,000), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg...
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    François Bernier (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    Louis-le-Grand) where he was invited to stay at the home of his younger friend Chapelle, the natural son of Luillier who was a councillor at the parlement in Metz...
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    Louis XIV (category French people of Portuguese descent)
    personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, when the King famously declared that he would take over the job...
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    Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    Relations (4to, Paris, 1679), in which he was assisted by a certain La Chapelle. This last contains an account of Japan, gathered from merchants and others...
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    Marie Antoinette (category Articles with PortugalA identifiers)
    necklace they had originally created for Madame du Barry. The main actors in the scandal were Cardinal de Rohan, Prince de Rohan-Guéméné, Grand Almoner...
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    kingdom, including his brother the Duke of Anjou, Henry of Navarre, the cardinals of Bourbon and Lorraine. The town is strategically built: it was a possible...
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    Brigitte Lahaie, pornstar Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre, bishop of Bourges, cardinal, cousin of Marcel Lefebvre, missionary priest and, later, archbishop, cousin...
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    expansion, which is largely Evangelical and Pentecostal in nature. Haitian Cardinal Chibly Langlois is president of the National Bishops Conference of the...
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    (September 1996). Les Guerres navales françaises du Moyen Âge à la guerre du Golfe. p. 408. ISBN 2-901952-21-6. Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont p. 91-92...
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    dynasty, who came to power in 751, moved the Frankish capital to Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) and paid little attention to Paris, though King Pepin the Short...
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    hold regular Mass in English The Connexion – French News and Views La chapelle du collège des Irlandais L’église Saint – Ephrem le Syriaque www.paris-promeneurs...
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