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    Strip at the Haxtur Awards 2003: Nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France 2004: Nominated for Best Long Comic...
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  • Simmonds receives the career award Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, which marks the first time in the festival's...
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    13th century, the main branch succeeded to the Counties of La Marche and Angoulême. As Crusader kings in the Latin East, they soon had connections with the...
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    Geschiedenis. Vantilt. p. 272. Matty Klatter, Catharina Belgica van Oranje, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw...
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    Charles II, king of Navarre (b. 1332) 1496 – Charles d'Orléans, count of Angoulême (b. 1459) 1515 – Louis XII, king of France (b. 1462) 1559 – Christian...
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    Dutch, the site that would later become New Amsterdam was named Nouvelle Angoulême by the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, to commemorate his patron...
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    Věstonice – Bohemian forces defeat the Austrians. August 10 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the civil war between Louis XIII of France and his mother, Marie...
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    attract up to 70,000 attendees annually. The Angoulême International Comics Festival debuted in Angoulême, France, in January 1974. 10,000 attendees made...
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    crime. Louis's daughter, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, the future Duchess of Angoulême, survived the French Revolution, and she lobbied in Rome energetically...
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    French crown. He claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême). A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes...
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  • Spanish Expedition Battle of Trocadero 31 Aug French Army, under Duke of Angoulême, defeat Spanish Army and takes Trocadero. Occupation of Spain by French...
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    Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others. 1365 – Edward of Angoulême, English noble (d. 1370) 1443 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500) 1546...
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  • Setúbal won 4–1 on aggregate. 30 September 1970 Stade Camille-Lebon, Angoulême) Attendance: 6,300 Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland) Vitória...
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    enemy Jan Moliart arrested and imprisoned. Her regency was formally recognised, but she was forced to confront a relative of her late husband, Jan van Valkenburg...
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  • literature, psychological drama, and political satire.: 18  Taking the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album in 1985 established...
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  • winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angoulême. In 2012 he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Richard...
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  • "ComICA". Comica was held in the spirit of European conventions like the Angoulême International Comics Festival. As such, it was focused on the art and...
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    Battenberg Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde Ludwig I of Bavaria Ludwig II of Bavaria Ludwig...
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  • Falco Thibault de Montalembert as Étienne Deshaies Roger Van Hool as Daddy Chloé Hirschman as Jan Adam Neill as David Wolper Olivier Galfione as Frédéric...
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  • timespan of 11 years, Belgian Herman Van Springel would win Bordeaux–Paris for a record of seven times. Ten times Van Springel took part in the legendary...
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    over 1,666 km2 (643 sq mi), had a population of 1,515,061 that same year (Jan. 2020 census), the fourth most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, and...
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    second daughter of John, King of England and his second wife Isabella of Angoulême. Her exact date of birth is unknown, and the year is calculated based...
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  • Sun-sin, Korean commander (d. 1598) 1573 – Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles IX (d. 1650) 1604 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Dutch settler...
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    exposition, Centre national de la bande dessinée et de l'image [fr], Angoulême, France; The 48-page illustrated exhibition catalog "Trait de génie Giraud...
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    name for themselves. Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Rousseau, Marc...
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  • respectively.[self-published source] That same year, Season of Mists won the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario. In 2005, IGN declared...
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    the personal, and often the political, needs of their patron. In fact Jan van Eyck, one of the many artists and musicians with the rank of valet in the...
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    He remained on the move, sheltering with his friend Louis du Tillet in Angoulême and taking refuge in Noyon and Orléans. He was finally forced to flee...
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    known as The Narrows and named the land around Upper New York Harbor New Angoulême, in reference to the family name of King Francis I; he sailed far enough...
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  • Fonnereau (1677–1740), banker, from La Rochelle. James Gaultier, banker, from Angoulême. King C. Gillette (1855–1932), American safety razor entrepreneur and...
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