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    grandmother's) position." She also states, "Her earliest schoolmasters were Fontenelle, the abbe de Saint-Pierre, and Montesquieu. Madame de Tencin played a...
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    353[incomplete short citation] Thompson, James (1895). Venetian Epigrams. Retrieved 17 July 2014. Venetian Epigrams, 66, ["Wenige sind mir jedoch wie Gift und...
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    Francesco Algarotti (category 18th-century Venetian writers)
    dame ("Newtonism for Ladies") (1737 – dedicated to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle) – a work consisting of information on astronomy, physics, mathematics...
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    Towards the end of the century, the choral setting by Georges Granges de Fontenelle (1769–1819) was equally to bring its young composer fame. Rousseau's poem...
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  • House (Omaha) Flatiron Hotel Grand Central Hotel Herndon House Hotel Fontenelle Prague Hotel Redick Tower St. Nicholas Hotel Boulder Dam Hotel CasaBlanca...
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  • Paris, where he befriended the scientific thinkers Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Nicolas Malebranche and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay. In 1715...
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  • Antiquaries of Ireland, Extra volume from 1893 to 1895. Annals of Fontenelle. The Annals of Fontenelle are a concise set of monastic annals composed by the community...
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    the Ottoman Empire countless Greeks lived in Venice and fought for the Venetian Empire against the Ottomans. Some Greek painters living in Venice who fought...
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    Bellérophon (1679), words by Thomas Corneille and Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle It remains permanently in the repertoire after the death of Lully and...
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    Carpenter, English Army general (d. 1731) February 11 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757) February 21 – Blaise Gisbert...
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    camp at Mont Houy, a hill located between the villages of Famars and La Fontenelle with the Scheldt on the right and the Rhonelle on the left. A smaller...
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