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    François de Pâris (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) pɑʁi]; 3 June 1690 – 1 May 1727) was a French Catholic deacon and theologian, a supporter of Jansenism...
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    originated at the tomb of François de Pâris, an ascetic Jansenist deacon who was buried at the cemetery of the parish of Saint-Médard in Paris. The convulsionnaires...
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    François-Edmond Pâris (6 March 1806 in Paris – 8 April 1893 in Paris) was a French admiral, notable for his contribution to naval engineering during the...
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    Bellamy, Francois-Xavier (2018). Demeurer. Paris: Grasset. ISBN 978-2246815587. Bellamy, François-Xavier (2014). Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre...
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    located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France...
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    financier Jean Pâris de Monmartel or the tax collector (fermier général) Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem. Le Normant de Tournehem became...
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    François Marcel Joseph Bernard Ruffin (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁsɛl ʒɔzɛf bɛʁnaʁ ʁyfɛ̃]; born 18 October 1975) is a French journalist, filmmaker, author and...
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    French prestige. The eldest son of François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville (1700–1770), Étienne François was born in Nancy in the Duchy of Lorraine...
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    Jean Pâris de Monmartel (3 August 1690 at Moirans – 10 September 1766 at his château at Brunoy) was a French financier. He was the youngest of the four...
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    Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (French: [ɡijom fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃twan maʁki də lopital]; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 1661 – 2 February 1704)...
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    François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa də bɔn dyk də lediɡjɛʁ], 1 April 1543 – 21 September 1626) was a French soldier...
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  • Party. Its writers included Octave Mirbeau, Henri de Kérillis, Georges Clemenceau, Henry Bordeaux, François Mitterrand, Jérôme Tharaud, and Jean Tharaud....
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    Bibliothèque François Mitterrand station (French pronunciation: [biblijɔtɛk fʁɑ̃swa mitɛʁɑ̃]) is a station of the Paris Métro and RER, named after the...
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    François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French...
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    François-Henri Pinault (French: [pino]; born 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the son of self-made billionaire François Pinault. François-Henri took...
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    year. François Mitterrand took membership for about a year in the Volontaires nationaux (National Volunteers), an organisation related to François de la...
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    Saint-François-Xavier or Église Saint-François-Xavier-des-Missions-étrangères) is a parish Roman Catholic church in the 7th arrondissement of Paris dedicated...
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    offered François Pinault a 50-year lease on the Bourse de Commerce for a lump sum of €15 million, plus yearly fees. Shortly after, the Paris City Council...
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    station from Paris to Montereau" (fr. Embarcadère de chemin de fer de Paris à Montereau). It was a boardwalk building designed by architect François-Alexis...
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    François de Chennevières (22 November 1699 in La Rochefoucauld – 13 November 1779) was an 18th-century French poet and librettist. Among other works,...
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    François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth Archbishop of Paris. Harlay de Champvallon was...
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    Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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    Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and François Couperin. The Conservatoire de Musique de Paris was founded in 1795. By 1870, Paris had become an important centre...
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    reopened in April 1816 as the École Royale de Musique, with François-Louis Perne as its director. In 1819, François Benoist was appointed professor of organ...
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    Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator, in the service...
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    Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu (pronounced [aʁmɑ̃ d(ə) viɲəʁo dy plɛsi]; 13 March 1696 – 8 August 1788), was a French...
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    François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (18 January 1641 – 16 July 1691) was the French Secretary of State for War during a significant part of...
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    Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde...
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    the hall for main-line trains. Designed by architect François Duquesnay, it was renamed the "Gare de l'Est" in 1854, after the expansion of service to Mulhouse...
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    Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine...
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