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    Lorraine is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval...
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    Louise Marguerite of Lorraine (1588 – 30 April 1631) was a daughter of the Duke of Guise and a member of the House of Lorraine. She married François de...
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    Haute) is situated. The highly rarefied Bar-le-duc jelly, also known as Lorraine jelly, is a spreadable preparation of white currant or red currant fruit...
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    Nancy, France (category Duchy of Lorraine)
    French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by...
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    Alderman Doolin's Campaign Speech Porter Steve Porter 1913 2038 Marche Lorraine New York Military Band 1913 2039 Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay Premiere...
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  • and Monaco, where she is warmly welcomed. She stayed a short time in Aix en Provence then returned to Genoa to follow her business, then returned to Aix...
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    merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin...
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    Gerberga married her first husband, Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. They had four children: Alberade of Lorraine (b. about 929); married Renaud of Roucy, a Viking...
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    Archduchess Gisela of Austria (category House of Habsburg-Lorraine)
    Galicia and Lodomeria, Princess of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932) was the second daughter and eldest surviving child of Emperor...
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    Maximilian I of Mexico (category House of Habsburg-Lorraine)
    the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867. A member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Maximilian was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria...
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    Canada Gazette, 14 juin 1856, pages 1069–1070 ; The Canada Gazette, 21 juin 1856, pages 1132–1133 ; The Canada Gazette, 28 juin 1856, page 1178. Statuts de...
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    red Cross of Lorraine. A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 1:1) with the golden "CG" and the red Cross of Lorraine. 1969–1974 Presidential...
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    Les Races et les nationalités en Autriche-Hongrie, Paris: F. Alcan Henry Joly (1911), Géographie physique de la Lorraine et de ses enveloppes, preface...
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    Habsburg territories. In the Rhineland, France successfully took the Duchy of Lorraine, and in Italy, Spain regained control over the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily...
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    severe street fighting. The Pont-à-Mousson Company was created in 1856 by a group of Lorraine businessmen to operate the Marbache iron mine and to use the...
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  • (1718), between Philip of Orléans, Regent of France, and Leopold, Duke of Lorraine Treaty of Paris (1761), established the third Bourbon Family Compact between...
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    Center’s name in French is CEERE (Centre européen d’enseignement et de recherche en éthique). International schools include: Multiple levels: European School...
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    empire. On 15 January 1856, the new tsar took Russia out of the Crimean War on the very unfavourable terms of the Treaty of Paris (1856), which included the...
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    Épinal (category Duchy of Lorraine)
    in 1465. Eventually, Épinal came under the guardianship of the Duke of Lorraine. In 1790, the Constituent Assembly requested the departmental assembly...
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    as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine province. It returned to France after World War I according to the 1919...
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    ongoing conflicts with the Paiute and Chemehuevi. As noted by ethnographer Lorraine Sherer, "to some he is an heroic figure, to others he was a white collaborator...
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    then to Vichy, and then, after 1856, to the military camp and residence built at Châlons-sur-Marne (nowadays: Châlons-en-Champagne), where Napoleon could...
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    was part of the Duchy of Lorraine, within the Holy Roman Empire. From 1542-1766 it was in the independent Duchy of Lorraine. Between 1766-1871 it was...
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  • Alsace-Lorraine. Rosemary Clooney (1928–2002), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, descended from the Koch family of Alsace-Lorraine. Olivia...
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    when the area was part of the German Empire. With the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France in 1919, Paris accepted that Alsace and Moselle should retain...
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    Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, he earned his degree of bachelier ès-lettres, and in 1856 entered the naval school at Lorient in spite of family opposition. It was...
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    creation of observation and warning services in France and Great Britain. In 1856, 24 measuring points manned by employees of the telegraph administration...
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  • Gomm, Bernhard (1992). Die russischen Kriegsschiffe 1856–1917. Band I [The Russian Warships 1856–1917. Vol. I] (in German). Wiesbaden.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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    journalist. About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848, he entered the École Normale, taking second...
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    Kingdom (complete list) – Kambolo ka Ngonga, King (1851–1856) Kamweje ka Kalunga, King (1856–1857) Mbumba a Kinguri, King (1857–1873) Malenge a Kitumba...
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