Jean Moulin (French: [ʒɑ̃ mu.lɛ̃]; 20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a French civil servant and resistant who succeeded in unifying the main networks of...
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Gardens of Versailles (redirect from Pièce d'eau des Suisses)
this fountain into the Bassin de Neptune. (Marie 1972, 1975; Thompson 2006; Verlet 1985) Excavated in 1678, the Pièce d'eau des Suisses – named for the...
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Luxor Obelisks (redirect from Obélisque de Louxor)
Alexandria. The total cost of relocating the obelisk was estimated at 2.5 million francs (equivalent to an estimated €16 million or $19 million in 2020). The...
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French and the Resistance, e.g., Jean Moulin and Pierre Brossolette, were on the political left. By the end of 1940 de Gaulle was beginning to be recognised...
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French Resistance (section Jean Moulin's intercession)
organizations were gathered and coordinated by Jean Moulin under the auspices of the National Council of Resistance (CNR), de Gaulle's formal link to the irregulars...
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of her well. She will never go back. In 2012, the Musée Anne de Beaujeu [fr] in Moulins, France, which now owns the painting, mounted the exhibition La...
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Haraucourt, Director 1903-1925 Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot [fr], Director 1926-1933 [For a half century the Musée de Cluny was integrated into the...
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costs of rebuilding the monument, estimated at 323,000 francs, in yearly installments of 10,000 francs. Unable to pay, Courbet went into self-imposed exile...
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year, Viollet-le-Duc submitted a budget of 3,888,500 francs, which was reduced to 2,650,000 francs, for the restoration of Notre-Dame and the construction...
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L'Origine du monde (redirect from L'origine de la monde)
second most popular painting in the Musée d'Orsay, after Renoir's Bal du moulin de la Galette. Some critics maintain that the body depicted is not (as has...
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1850: Un fantôme, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Lafargue 1850: Jean Bart, pièce historique in 5 acts, with Forges 1854: La Femme à trois maris, comédie-vaudeville...
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budget was 1180 francs, including 500 francs from the city of Bordeaux. Young campers, typically from Bordeaux and Montpellier, paid 8 francs for their stay...
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List of works by Vincent van Gogh (category Paintings of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence by Vincent van Gogh)
influences and those of Holland Le Moulin de la Galette (Van Gogh series): Montmartre, windmill paintings named Le Moulin de la Galette Montmarte (Van Gogh...
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Sainte-Chapelle (category Île de la Cité)
The Parisian scholastic Jean de Jandun praised the building as one of Paris' most beautiful structures in his "Tractatus de laudibus Parisius" (1323)...
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between 3.25 and 6 francs; 22% earned less than three francs; only 5% had a salary between 6.5 and 20 francs. Food cost a minimum of one franc a day, and the...
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Though Manet had claimed this piece was once valued at 25,000 Francs in 1871, it remained in his possession until 1878 when Jean-Baptiste Faure, opera-singer...
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Conciergerie (category Castles in Île-de-France)
immense table of black marble from Germany, decorated with fleurs-de-lis emblems. A piece of the table is now displayed on the wall of the lower hall. The...
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Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
contract granting him 1.5 million francs toward the construction costs: less than a quarter of the estimated 6.5 million francs. Eiffel was to receive all income...
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Paris Fashion Week (redirect from Semaine de la mode de Paris)
Paris Fashion Week (French: Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer...
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Schneider CA1 (section Moulin-de-Laffaux)
Hindenburg Line hinged on the Chemin-des-Dames, named after the hillock of the Moulin-de-Laffaux. This attack was to be supported by Groupement Lefebvre. To improve...
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Vital (2005). Croix de Lorraine et Croix du Sud, 1940–1942: aviateurs belges et de la France Libre en Afrique. Éditions du Gerfaut. ISBN 2-914622-92-9. Imbert-Vier...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (redirect from Basilique de Saint-Denis)
la Grande Mademoiselle Jean Gaston d'Orléans (1650–1652), Duke of Valois Marie Anne d'Orléans (1652–1656), Mademoiselle de Chartres Henrietta Maria...
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century. In the last decade of the 19th century the Paris cabarets the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère adopted the music of the "Galop infernal" from...
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Aragon died on 24 December 1982, his friend Jean Ristat sitting up with him. He was buried in the parc of Moulin de Villeneuve, in his property of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines...
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Palais-Royal (redirect from Palais de l'Egalitè)
death in 1673 the theatre was taken over by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who used it for his Académie Royale de Musique (the official name of the Paris Opera...
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Gaston III, Count of Foix (redirect from Gaston III, comte de Foix)
of 1391 to negotiate with the French king. With Bureau de La Rivière and Philippe de Moulins [fr], Bishop of Noyon, Roger d'Espagne developed the following...
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Blériot XI (redirect from Nyrop 2)
Blériot aircraft: for others, it initially cost 2,000 francs, this being reduced to 800 francs in 1912. A gifted pupil favoured by good weather could...
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Château d'Écouen (redirect from Chateau de Ecouen)
the peristyle by Jean Bullant covering the stairway to the royal apartments Original entry portal, with equestrian statue of Anne de Montmorency, drawn...
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anatomist Georges Cuvier and the pioneers of the theory of evolution, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. The museum's aims were...
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Coco Chanel (redirect from Chateau de Cremat)
returned to Moulins, and her former haunt La Rotonde. She realized then that a serious stage career was not in her future.: 52 At Moulins, Chanel met...
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