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    goddess from Roman Gaul, attested epigraphically from Vesunna (present-day Périgueux), who is closely related to the Roman goddess Diana. The goddess Sianna...
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    of Périgueux catalogues, studies and interprets all the events, both ancient and more recent, associated with this French town. Although Périgueux has...
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    Jarry, Arthur (1916). Le siège pontifical de Périgueux et Sarlat. Nos évêques (in French). Périgueux: E. Ribes. Jean, Armand, SJ (1891). Les évêques...
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    ancient settlement sprang up. A series of dedications to Telo come from Périgueux: on three of these Telo is invoked with another deities: the goddesses...
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    of Montpellier is a stronghold built in the seventeenth century by Louis XIII of France. Since the 1990s, Montpellier has experienced one of the strongest...
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    Vincent de Paul (category Beatifications by Pope Benedict XIII)
    23 September 1600, at the age of nineteen, in Château-l'Évêque, near Périgueux. This was against the regulations established by the Council of Trent...
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    Paris. Several times during the 1610s, the de Gondis invited King Louis XIII to hunt in the large forests around Versailles. In 1622, the king purchased...
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    ecclesiastical province: Dioceses of Agen, Aire and Dax, Bayonne, and Périgueux. Constituted by the same Concordat metropolitan to the suffragan Bishoprics...
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  • religion in Saint-Maixent 1545: Tax revolts and riots in Niort, Saintes, Périgueux, St Foy, Duras, Rouen and Comminges 1545: Mérindol massacre 1545–1546:...
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    Jeanne de Lestonnac (category Beatifications by Pope Leo XIII)
    first school for girls in Bordeaux. Foundations proceeded in Beziers, Périgueux, and Toulouse through Lestonnac's personal connections as well as her...
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    to Bordeaux. Via Scarponensis connected Trier to Lyon through Metz. At Périgueux, France, a luxurious Roman villa called the Domus of Vesunna, built round...
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    porch of the church has three bays, and is modelled after the porch of Périgueux Cathedral. The dominant feature is the immense elongated ovoid cupola...
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    of Périgueux in 1546, husband of Jeanne Proulhac. Geraud of Faure of Roderie, Roche Pontissac son of Dauphin, adviser to the election and Périgueux Bertrande...
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    professed member of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine of Chancelade in Périgueux, an order now extinct. He was also a member of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement...
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  • 'Watch Captain' in Regio XIII. In Death in Vesunna by Harry Turtledove, the vigiles of Vesunna, Roman Gaul (now modern Périgueux, France) are tasked to...
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    15 – 1616) Jean d'Estrades (1648.02.14 – 1658)), previously Bishop of Périgueux (France) (1646.07 – 1648.02.14) Charles-Louis de Lorraine (1659.11.10...
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    reporting directly to Rome. It also took jurisdiction over churches in Agen, Périgueux, Angoulême and Saintes. In 1137 the 13-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine married...
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    "The Vow of Louis XIII", hangs in the north arm of the transept. Interior view of Montauban Cathedral. Organ Pulpit The Vow of Louis XIII by Ingres Wikimedia...
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    Huguenot rebellion of 1621, and successfully withstood an 86-day siege by Louis XIII. Because Montauban was a Protestant town, it resisted and held its position...
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    Guillaume Le Boux, Orat. (26 May 1659 – 15 December 1666) (transferred to Périgueux) Hugues de Bar (7 March 1667 – 1671) (transferred to Lectoure) Paul-Philippe...
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    February 1924. The dioceses of Vannes, Valence, Montpelier, Laval, Nantes, Périgueux, Tours and many others, dedicated churches or chapels to Our Lady of Consolation...
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    12 May 1894. It was raised to the status of a basilica minor by Pope Leo XIII on 17 March 1896. It was also badly damaged in World War I and, not so seriously...
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    2016. "1961 Vienna GP". Chicane F1. Retrieved 28 March 2016. STATS F1. "XIII BRDC International Trophy • STATS F1". Stats F1. Retrieved 28 March 2016...
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    1610. During the 17th century, Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII, was determined to make Paris the most beautiful city in Europe. He built...
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    regional trains (TER) operated by the SNCF to Arcachon, Limoges, Agen, Périgueux, Langon, Pau, Le Médoc, Angoulême and Bayonne. Historically the train...
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    Medici, wife of King Henri IV, exiled from the court by his son, King Louis XIII, lived in the château. By 1622, the Counter-Reformation got establishment...
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    Central-Europe Atlantique Limoges-Saintes. Angoulême is also connected to Périgueux and Saint-Jean-d'Angely by the D939 and to Libourne by the D674. By train:...
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    419, 448, 531. Eubel, I, 503. Ameil de Breuil was provided by Benedict XIII. Gallia christiana II, pp. 122–125. Eubel, I, 503. Jacques Gélu was confirmed...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris Notre-Dame's high altar with the kneeling statues of Louis XIII and Louis XIV South rose window of Notre-Dame Flying buttresses of Notre-Dame...
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    Tower, wearing the crown and persisting to recognise the antipope Benedict XIII and his heirs Bernard Garnier and Jean Carrier, for a time. This led inevitably...
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