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    The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known...
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  • Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The film is...
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    The Battle of Nantes took place between Royalist and Republican French forces at Nantes on 29 June 1793 during the War in the Vendée. It consisted of...
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    Museum of Nantes is a French natural history museum located in the city of Nantes. The first place dedicated to natural history in Nantes was a private...
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    attacks, such as the Siege of La Rochelle. After Louis XIV revoked the Edit de Nantes in 1685, Protestants who did not leave the country were generally suppressed...
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    hanged and burned at the stake by the secular court of Nantes for his act of force at Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte, as well as for crimes committed against...
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  • Bruxelles, De Boeck, 1989, 273 pages (2è édit. 2002, 214 pages) (trad. en portugais). Du "sens commun" à la "société de communication". Etudes de philosophie...
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  • The Sociétés populaires de Nantes were bodies established in Nantes during the French Revolution, equivalent to political parties, in support of the revolution...
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    Reformation: a scandal! Indeed, six years before the Revocation of the Edit de Nantes, the Catholic religion, suppressed during the Reformation in 1536, made...
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  • Denys de La Patellière (8 March 1921 in Nantes, France–21 July 2013) was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series. He...
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    cities that wished to remain Catholic to join the Union. 1598 – The Edict of Nantes, issued by the King of France, Henry IV, was the formal religious settlement...
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    The Palais de la Bourse is a building on place du Commerce in Nantes, France, begun at the end of the 18th century and completed in the 19th century....
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    Jean Alexandre Barré (category Physicians from Nantes)
    Jean Alexandre Barré (25 May 1880, Nantes – 26 April 1967, Strasbourg) was a French neurologist who in 1916 worked on the identification of Guillain-Barré-Strohl...
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    Edict of Saint-Germain (category Catherine de' Medici)
    The Edict of Saint-Germain (French: édit de tolérance de Saint-Germain), also known as the Edict of January (Édit de janvier), was a landmark decree of...
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    Les moyens de chasser la gueuserye, contraindre les fainéants, faire et employer les pauvres La Commission, édit et partie des mémoires de l'ordre et...
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    Eduardo Bolsonaro (category Politicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro (born 10 July 1984) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer. He is the third child of Jair Bolsonaro, the...
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    taught at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University, then at the University of Nantes where he is currently professor of history of modern philosophy and philosophy...
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    Struggle for Recognition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. Édit de Versailles (7 novembre 1787), transcription of the original text, in French...
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    Musée Dobrée (category Museums in Nantes)
    The Musée Dobrée is a museum in Nantes, in the quartier Graslin in the immediate outskirts of the city centre and very close to the city's Natural History...
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    Varda paid homage to her husband in Jacquot de Nantes, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993), and L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995). Demy died on October...
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  • Bretons knew French policy. His actual territory of control was the County of Nantes. Carolingian infighting distracted Guy and prevented him from exhibiting...
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    after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1706, Gabrielle-Suzanne married Jean-Baptiste Gaalon de Villeneuve, a member of a noble family...
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    deterrent. In 1988, she was decommissioned and became a museum ship in Nantes. She has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of...
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  • he will first have to return to France and get a divorce. On landing at Nantes in 1793, the Reign of Terror is raging and he is arrested by the authorities...
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    Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro (born 30 April 1981) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who is the eldest child of the 38th President of Brazil...
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  • Benoît Régent (category Actors from Nantes)
    was born in Nantes. He died at the age of 41 of a ruptured aneurysm in Zürich, Switzerland. Femme intégrale (1980) - Jacques La Peau de chagrin (1980...
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    Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French meridian arc, for which...
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] listen) (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist...
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    Païta from 1995 to 1998 and since 2020. Mapou studied at university in Nantes and then in Paris in the 1980s. He was director-general of the Rural Development...
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    Lille – 1 hour 25 minutes Nantes and Rennes – 3 hours 15 minutes Bordeaux – 4 hours 25 minutes There are also TGV trains to Gare de Reims, the older station...
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