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    Charles Colbert, Marquis of Croissy (1625 – July 28, 1696) was a French statesman and diplomat. Colbert was born in Reims. Like his elder brother Jean-Baptiste...
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    eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. Seignelay married twice; firstly to...
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    Charles Joachim Colbert (11 June 1667 – 8 April 1738) was a bishop of Montpellier from 1697. He was a son of Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy and a...
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  • Chavigny 1741–1742: Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle 1763–1772: Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay 1775–1780: Marc Marie de Bombelles 1797–1799:...
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    tipográfico Sucesores de Rivadeneyra. Godefroi Louis Estrades (comte d'), Charles Colbert de Croissy (marquis), Jean-Antoine de Mesmes Avaux (comte d')...
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  • Pierre de La Broue and Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy, calling for a church council to discuss the bull. He and de Croissy opposed the 1720 compromise...
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  • painter at Monticello Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy (1625–1696), French diplomat, brother of Jean-Baptiste Colbert Charlotte Colbert, Franco-British multi-media...
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  • identity, while he was named James de la Cloche. During the Marcilly trial, Charles II summoned Ambassador Colbert de Croissy in order to have him transmit...
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    Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated...
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    French ambassador, Colbert de Croissy, who was aided by the secretary of state Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, and his wife. De Kéroualle, who concealed...
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  • François de Comminges 1665–1668 : Henri, Duke of Verneuil 1668–1674 : Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy 1674–1677 : Henri de Massue, 1st Marquis de Rouvigny...
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  • became the first deputy of Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, the Secretary of State and younger brother of Jean Baptiste Colbert, and then the King's Cabinet...
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    bishops of Senez (Jean Soanen), Montpellier (Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy) and Boulogne (Pierre de Langle), he opposed the bull Unigenitus. According...
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    Callières in turn alerted Colbert de Croissy, who sent him in great secrecy to Flanders with Louis de Verjus accompanying Nicolas Auguste de Harlay-Bonneuil, charged...
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    Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, a senior French diplomat and brother of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance from 1661 to 1683. Colbert de...
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  • British School of Paris (category International schools in Île-de-France)
    British School of Paris (BSP) is a coeducational private day school in Croissy-sur-Seine, France, in Paris' western suburbs. Numbering approximately 600...
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    (1697)–1701 : Camille d'Hostun de La Baume, comte later duc de Tallard 1701–15 : Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Croissy et de Torcy (Secretary of State...
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    1655–1676 Charles de Pradel 1676–1696 Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy 1696–1738 Georges-Lazare Berger de Charency 1738–1748 François Renaud de Villeneuve...
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  • early June 1669, i.e. at the time of de Marcilly's trial, Charles II summoned the ambassador Colbert de Croissy to express to Louis XIV his regrets for...
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    français de la Culture. (in French) de Combault Auteuil, Charles (1644). Blanche infante de Castille, mère de St. Louis, reyne et régente de France (in...
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  • Treaty of Westminster (1674) (category Charles II of England)
    would no longer fund the war. He informed the French ambassador, Colbert de Croissy, that to his regret, he had to terminate the English war effort. He...
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    the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1680) Hôtel de Beauvillier at Versailles (1681) Hôtel Colbert de Croissy at Versailles (1682) Château de Dampierre...
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    is therefore general knowledge]". Charles de Gaulle, Vers l'Armée de Métier, Berger-Levrault, 1934. Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr (in French) 48°48′03″N...
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    days after his return to England. February 12 – The Marquis de Croissy, Charles Colbert, becomes France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and serves for...
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    lunaire, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, Countess Geschwitz in Lulu, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites (her Teatro alla Scala debut, under Riccardo...
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    judge the Pope's conduct. In February, on the advice of Colbert of Croissy, Henri-Charles de Beaumanoir had the heads of his escort – the captains of...
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    avaricious acquisition of wealth of Concini, Richelieu, Mazarin, Fouquet, and Colbert) possessing in addition to his see the revenues of seven abbeys. He was...
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    1667–1715 : Hélène de Costentin de Tourville 1715–1719 : Charlotte II de Colbert-Croissy 1719–1743 : Marie II Anne-Bénigne-Constance-Julie de Rohan-Guéménée...
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  • Jean de La Bruyère, philosopher and moralist (born 1645) 29 June – Michel Lambert, composer (born 1610) 28 July – Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, statesman...
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    community in 1779 and 1782; novice mistress (Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy). Born in Paris, 18 June 1745. Professed February 1764, prioress from...
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