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    Alexandre de Vendôme (19 April 1598 – 28 February 1629) was the third illegitimate child, and second illegitimate son, of Henry IV of France and his mistress...
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    Bourbon-Vendome. He held the titles of 1st Duke of Vendôme, 2nd Duke of Beaufort and 2nd Duke of Étampes, but is also simply known as César de Vendôme. Born...
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    François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (16 January 1616 – 25 June 1669) was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent...
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    The Hôtel de Vendôme is a private mansion in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The Hôtel de Vendôme has been built in 1707 by the architect Jean-Baptiste...
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    regiment. He served in the Italian campaigns under Catinat, Villeroy and Vendôme, and in the Netherlands under Luxembourg, showing indomitable courage and...
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  • begun at Vendôme on 20 February 1797, lasted two months. On 7 Prairial (26 May) Babeuf and Darthé were sentenced to death, and guillotined at Vendôme the next...
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    Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737), a legitimated prince of the blood royal, was the son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs...
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  • diamonds, he founded his eponymous jewelry house in 1981 on the Place Vendôme in Paris. He also established retail presence in Geneva, Cannes and Monaco...
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    canted across the corners give the rectangular Place Vendôme the aspect of an octagon. The original Vendôme Column at the centre of the square was erected by...
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    (1599). César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France Alexandre, Chevalier de Vendôme Gabrielle is the subject of the...
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    archéologique de France, 39e session, Vendôme, 1872, Paris, Derache, 1873, p. 459-525 [see p. 504-525th century. Salies, Alexandre de, De Vendôme à la Bonnaventure...
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    royal Parc de Saint-Cloud constructed several hôtels particuliers in Paris, notably the Hôtel de Clermont, Rue de Varenne, and the Hôtel de Vendôme, Rue d'Enfer...
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  • Jeanne de Châtillon 1371-1372 : Jeanne of Vendôme († 1372), Countess of Vendôme and Castres, daughter of Bourchard VII. 1372-1403 : Catherine de Vendôme (†...
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    son of César de Vendôme Louis III Joseph de Vendôme (1669–1712), son of Louis II de Bourbon-Vendôme Sold to Marie Anne, légitimée de Bourbon in 1696...
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  • moved to n° 8, place Vendôme. In 1982, it moved to its current location, at n° 28. Charvet remains the oldest shop on place Vendôme, which explains both...
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    library of Paris.) 1750-1768, Hôtel de la Chancellerie, 13 Place Vendôme. (Today it is the Ministry of Justice.) Château de Malesherbes in Malesherbes (the...
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  • of the Congregation of St. Maur. He made his profession in the abbey of Vendôme, 26 August 1673, and after completing his philosophical and theological...
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    Henry III (French: Henri III, né Alexandre Édouard; Polish: Henryk Walezy; Lithuanian: Henrikas Valua; 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of...
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    heir Jeanne de Chartres married Robert de Vendôme, who became Vidame after the death of his brother-in-law around 1401. Robert de Vendôme came from a...
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  • St-Martin-de-Tours, eventually serving as Vicar-General to the Bishop of Tours in 1791. He was a teacher at the École Militaire de Vendôme and at the...
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    Mary of Bourbon (category People from Vendôme)
    Mary of Bourbon or Marie de Bourbon (29 October 1515 – 28 September 1538) was a daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise d'Alençon, daughter...
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    the second child and first daughter to Alexandre François Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais, and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. Her parents separated when...
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    others: Louis-Joseph de Vendôme (now in the musée de Vendôme) François Arago, the basis for the well known engraving by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers Armand...
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    Brussels, Belgium, on 12 February 1896 to Prince Emmanuel d'Orléans, Duke of Vendôme (18 January 1872 – 1 February 1931). He was a son of Prince Ferdinand,...
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  • César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1608–1626) Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu (1626–1642) Queen Anne of France (1642-1666) François Louis de Rousselet...
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    duchesse de Penthièvre in her own right. Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine (1576–1602); Françoise de Lorraine (1602–1669), married César de Vendôme (see below)...
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    ├─>Jean de Bourbon (1344–1393), comte de Vendôme et de la Marche │ │ │ x Catherine of Vendôme (+1412) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Jacques II (1370–1438), comte de La...
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    from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière topped the arch. Titled Le triomphe de la Révolution ("The Triumph of the Revolution")...
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    Château d'Anet (category Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire)
    ownership then passed to Marie's daughter Françoise de Lorraine and her husband César de Vendôme, an illegitimate son of Henry IV. The property was owned...
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    glove-wideners. Alexandre Dumas père utilizes a choke pear in his fictional account of the prison escape of François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort in the...
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