• Alexandre Varenne (3 October 1870 in Clermont-Ferrand – 16 February 1947 in Paris) was a French politician and journalist, best remembered as the founder...
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    Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (French pronunciation: [ʒak nikɔla bijo vaʁɛn]; 23 April 1756 – 3 June 1819), also known as Jean Nicolas or by his nicknames...
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  • Workingmen's Association or First International. On 4 October 1919, Alexandre Varenne founded the socialist daily La Montagne, Quotidien de la Démocratie...
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    B. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02838-8 – via Internet Archive. Alexandre Varenne in Indochina...
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    times; from October 1926 to May 1927 (in temporary replacement of Alexandre Varenne) and from December 1928 to January 1934. He died in a plane crash...
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  • Montagne was established as an independent socialist publication by Alexandre Varenne in 1919. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the paper which...
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    was released from prison on 24 December 1925 by Governor General Alexandre Varenne, in response to widespread public protest. On 25 December 1925, Phan...
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    by a decree on February 24, 1926, of Governor-General of Indochina Alexandre Varenne. The predecessor of the chamber was the Indigenous Consultative Council...
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    Reconstruction and Town Planning Jean Letourneau – Minister of Posts Alexandre Varenne – Minister of State Francisque Gay – Minister of State Georges Bidault...
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    as Paul Beau (1902–07), Albert Sarraut (1911–14 and 1917–19), and Alexandre Varenne (1925–28). Through the construction of irrigation works, chiefly in...
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    Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679 – 10 March 1719) was a French architect and garden designer who became the chief architect of Saint Petersburg...
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    1925 – 18 Nov 1925 Preceded by Martial Henri Merlin Succeeded by Alexandre Varenne In office 1 November 1927 – 7 August 1928 Preceded by Pierre Marie...
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    In his Le cuisinier françois, published in 1680, François Pierre de la Varenne offered two recipes for onion soup, in the first of which the onions are...
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  • associated with Camille Chautemps, Marcel Huart, Aristide Quillet, and Alexandre Varenne. Married to a doctor, Reynaud was the mother of two children. Anne...
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  • Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1886 to 1897 as a Liberal. He was born in Varennes, Canada East, the son of seigneur Félix Lussier and Angélique Deschamps...
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    Labroquerie, a descendant of the famed explorers Louis Jolliet and Gaultier de Varennes. When his father died in January 1826, the widowed Louise-Henriette was...
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  • Casteau, author of L'Ouverture de cuisine (1604) Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne Bartolomeo Scappi, author of Opera dell'Arte del Cucinare (1570) Procopio...
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    Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (20 October 1760 – 18 March 1829) was a French soldier and politician. Alexandre Lameth was born in Paris on...
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    small lake and casual restaurant. Additionally, the nearby Métro stop, Varenne, features some of Rodin's sculptures on the platform. The building is served...
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    the Tuileries Palace in October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging...
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    1982 novel La Nuit de Varenne. It was made into a film in the same year, a French-Italian production called either La Nuit de Varennes (French title, in English...
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    France. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. "Matignon" is often used as a metonym for the governmental action of the...
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    his popularity deteriorated progressively. His unsuccessful flight to Varennes in June 1791, four months before the constitutional monarchy was declared...
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    scarce, and in an initiative spearheaded by Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, a law was enacted in July 1793 that forbade the hoarding of "daily necessities"...
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  • (1919) Friquet directed by Gero Zambuto (1919) Vautrin directed by Alexandre des Varennes (1919) Il castello di bronzo directed by Emilio Ghione (1920) I...
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    like Robespierre himself, were Jacobin: Fouché, Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varenne, Marat, Danton, Saint-Just. Three other powerful Montagnards were not known...
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    parents already lived. The family lived in a hôtel particulier on the Rue de Varenne in Paris. But they also had an apartment near the Château de Versailles...
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    Barnave and Alexandre de Lameth a group known as the "triumvirate," which was popular at first. But after the flight of King Louis XVI to Varennes, Duport...
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    The hotel was built around 1762 for Jacques Alexandre Gauthier de Vinfrais, hunting inspector of the Varenne du Louvre bailiwick and commander of the Gendarmerie...
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    residence, also called the Hôtel du Maine (now the Hôtel Biron), on the rue de Varenne. Lewis, W.H., Louis XIV, the Sun King, ISBN 978-3-453-55034-6 Wolf, J....
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