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    179°E / 44.677; 0.179 Château de Duras is located in the town of Duras, in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The castle was classified...
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    Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Château d'Ussé. Château d'Ussé website Château d'Ussé Un entretien...
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    The Château de Duras (Castle of Duras) in Duras, a half hour walk to the north of Sint-Truiden in Belgium, is built in the Classical style . This Belgian...
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    Neauphle-le-Château (French pronunciation: [nofl lə ʃɑto] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Neauphle-le-Château...
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  • India Song (category Films directed by Marguerite Duras)
    India Song is a 1975 French drama film written and directed by Marguerite Duras. It stars Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann...
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    Emmanuel-Céleste de Durfort, 5th Duke of Duras (1741-1800), with whom she had a son, Amédée-Bretagne-Malo de Durfort (1771-1838). In 1767, de Duras was appointed...
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  • (French: height) via "lascote" to "lascombes". Antoine de Lascombes (born 1625) inherited or had possession of the estate from the Durfort de Duras family...
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    Emmanuel Félicité de Durfort, duc de Duras (19 September 1715 – 6 September 1789, Versailles) was a French politician, diplomat, peer, marshal and Freemason...
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    influential Durfort de Duras family for seven centuries. The family also owned the nearby Château Lamothe, later renamed Château Margaux. The property...
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  • This is a list of castles in France, arranged by region and department. Notes The French word château has a wider meaning than the English castle: it includes...
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    so-called caves coopératives. The most famous producers are Château de Tariquet, Domaine de Joÿ, Plaimont, Uby... There are also 150 independently working...
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    Fils de France ("Son of France") he was entitled to the style of Royal Highness. He was baptised on 24 March 1662 at the chapel of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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  • Thumbnail for Château de Rauzan
    Château de Rauzan is a castle in the French commune of Rauzan, in the Gironde département of France. Built by John Lackland, Duke of Normandy (1199-1204)...
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    Monluc intercepted the Protestant army of Duras at the Battle of Vergt in the Périgord and came out the victor. Duras lost about 1,400 men in the battle and...
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    Château de Duras, the fourth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort (1605-1665) and Elisabeth de La Tour d'Auvergne. His father was marquis of Duras, comte de...
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    writer, actor and director. Marguerite Duras' grave is recognizable due to a pot and saucer full of planted pens. Duras moved to Indochina as a child with...
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    march out to the Château de Bellevue in an attempt to stop the Mesdames from departing. The Mesdames were warned and left the château in the carriage of...
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    region. Its location was chosen to be a stronghold of the castle of Duras. Duras is located about twenty kilometers south and it belonged to the Dukes...
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    Lavaux-Sainte-Anne (French: Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne) is a castle located in Wallonia near Rochefort, Province of Namur in Belgium. In 1450, Jean II de Berlo commissioned...
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  • Ghislain-Joseph Henry (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    Bruxelles. 1786-1789 : Château de Duras, in Palladian style Major restoration, château de Laeken, of which he became curator Works, château de Seneffe. Portico...
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  • Russian cuisine Olivier (novel), the first published novel by French author Claire de Duras The Olivier Theatre (named after the actor Laurence Olivier)...
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  • Thumbnail for Château de Chastellux
    Château de Chastellux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʃatly]) is a French castle with elements from the eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth and nineteenth...
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    philosopher, was the pastor in Duras 1604–1614. The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village...
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    The Belvédère Château (French: Château du Belvédère; Dutch: Kasteel Belvédère; German: Schloss Belvédère) is a residence of the Belgian royal family in...
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    agreed to march out to Château de Bellevue and stop the Mesdames from departing. The Mesdames were warned and left the château in the carriage of a visitor...
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    of France in 1775 Philippe, Duke of Mouchy (1715–1794), Marshal of France in 1775 Emmanuel de Durfort, Duke of Duras (1715–1789), Marshal of France in...
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    Siege of Bordeaux (1453) (category France articles missing geocoordinate data)
    itself surrounded. On August 13, 1453, the King of France, Charles VII, arrived in person at the Château de Montferrand on the Ambès peninsula to direct the...
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    The Château of Stuyvenberg (French: Château du Stuyvenberg; Dutch: Kasteel van Stuyvenberg; German: Schloss Stuyvenberg) is a residence of the Belgian...
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  • Claire Deluca (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Marguerite Duras. Héliot, Armelle (April 9, 2020). "Claire Deluca ou la délicatesse". "Le Shaga de Marguerite Duras" (PDF). Duras mon amour (in French). June...
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    family then departed to the Château de Montceaux on 14 May, before Catherine decided to send her children to the Château de Vincennes for their security...
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