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    Marie Alexandre Lenoir (27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments...
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    by artists where he began to draw. He received some mentorship from Alexandre Lenoir, attended the Académie Suisse, learned lithography, and was producing...
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    created in 1795 on the initiative of Alexandre Lenoir. It displayed sculptures and other objects, many salvaged on Lenoir's own initiative from the destructions...
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    preserved while stripping them of their association with the monarchy. Alexandre Lenoir saved many royal monuments by diverting them to preservation in a museum...
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    Police Lieutenant-General Alexandre Lenoir, who had been directly involved in the creation of a mine inspection service. Lenoir endorsed the idea of moving...
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    traces its roots to the French Revolution when the government appointed Alexandre Lenoir to specify and safeguard certain structures. Though the first classifications...
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  • further away. At the time of the French Revolution, an archaeologist, Alexandre Lenoir, was appointed curator of the Petits-Augustins depot, where sculptures...
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    Alban Lenoir (born 16 December 1980) is a French actor. He was nominated for the Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation for his leading role in the film...
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    evokes the earlier Musée des Monuments français opened in 1795 by Alexandre Lenoir, which displayed actual monuments of French Medieval and Renaissance...
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  • Tomb of Brunhilda in the abbey church before 1790 (early 19th-century engraving by Alexandre Lenoir)...
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    bronze statuette was acquired by Alexandre Lenoir, founder of the Musée des Monuments Français, in 1807. After Lenoir's death in 1839, his heirs sold it...
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    Revolution. After the revolution, some of the tombstones were recovered by Alexandre Lenoir. In particular the tombstone of the Latin king Leon V of Armenia was...
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    happened during the French Revolution. Because of this an archaeologist, Alexandre Lenoir, was appointed curator of the Petits-Augustins depot, where sculptures...
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    1793 to celebrate the execution of Marie Antoinette. Preservationist Alexandre Lenoir saved many of the monuments by claiming them as artworks for his Museum...
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    through various hands until the French conquest of Italy in 1797. Alexandre Lenoir mentioned in 1809 that it was on exhibition in the Bibliothèque Nationale...
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  • Bichat, 1799 (Musée national du Château de Versailles, [1]) Portrait of Alexandre Lenoir, 19th century ([2]) The Skater (Bertrand Andrieu), 1798 (Hôtel de la...
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    large part of the château was subsequently demolished, but only after Alexandre Lenoir was able to salvage some architectural elements for his Musée des Monuments...
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    Lenoir or LeNoire is a surname that may refer to: Alban Lenoir (born 1980), French actor, screenwriter and stuntman Alexandre Lenoir (1761–1839), French...
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    destruction, often through the intervention of experts like architect Alexandre Lenoir, abbot Nicolas Bergeat, and artist Louis Joseph Watteau.: 33–34  From...
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    during the French Revolution, but was protected by the archeologist Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet wound in its defense. He had it moved to safety...
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    under the direction of Alexandre Lenoir in the early nineteenth century for his Museum of French Monuments in Paris. Lenoir's collection of architectural...
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    Revolution on 18 October 1793 and the bodies were thrown into a mass grave. Alexandre Lenoir saved much of the monument, which was preserved in the Museum of French...
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    French Revolution. After the revolution, his tombstone was recovered by Alexandre Lenoir who placed it in his Musée des monuments Français in the Saint-Denis...
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    The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel...
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    1806 In 1808, Champollion received a scare when French Archeologist Alexandre Lenoir published the first of his four volumes on Nouvelles Explications des...
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  • Lupin, novelist Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), poet Alexandre Lenoir (1761–1839), archaeologist Philippe Léotard (1940–2001), teacher, actor...
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    The buildings were restored by the architect Albert Lenoir, son of preservationist Alexandre Lenoir. The mansion was granted monument historique status...
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    often made". The traditional attribution to Jean Goujon, suggested by Alexandre Lenoir in 18th century, is not accepted today. Other sculptors have been suggested...
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    Jean Charles Pierre Lenoir (10 December 1732 – 17 November 1807) was a French lawyer who headed the Paris police in the period immediately before the French...
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    Alexandre-Albert Lenoir (21 October 1801, Paris - 17 February 1891, Paris) was a French art historian, archaeologist, and writer; best known for creating...
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