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    Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French Catholic prelate who served...
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    Collège François-de-Laval (previously Petit Séminaire de Québec) is a private French-language Roman Catholic secondary school in the Vieux-Québec area...
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  • Université Laval (English: Laval University) is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by François de Montmorency-Laval...
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    settlers. The name Laval comes from the situation of Sainte-Brigitte in the seigneury of Beaupré, whose first owner was François de Laval, bishop of Quebec...
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    seigneury there in 1636. Agriculture first appeared in Laval in 1670. In 1675, François de Montmorency-Laval gained control of the seigneury. In 1702 a parish...
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    of La Trémoille. François de Laval was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec; the city of Laval, Quebec, and the Université Laval were named after...
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    despite the opposition of Bishop François de Laval, he supported selling brandy to the aboriginal tribes, which Laval considered a mortal sin. The conflict...
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    François Pyrard de Laval (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa piʁaʁ də laval]; c. 1578 – ca. 1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal...
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  • The Laval Rocket (French: Rocket de Laval) are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) based in Laval, Quebec. The team began...
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  • François Laval (born 1967) is a French scholar of law and political science, specialised in French constitutional law and European politics. He has been...
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    France and the bishops of Quebec are buried in the crypt, including François de Laval, Quebec's first bishop. The church is a National Historic Site of...
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    Quebec (French: Séminaire de Québec) is a Catholic community of diocesan priests in Quebec City founded by Bishop François de Laval, the first bishop of New...
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    France during the Middle Ages. Laval became a city during the 11th century, and was the cradle of the House of Laval, one of the most powerful families...
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  • Saint-François (formerly Saint-François-de-Sales) is the second largest district of Laval, Quebec, Canada, after Duvernay. It was a separate city until...
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    Pierre-François Martin-Laval (nicknamed "PEF") is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. PEF is well known in France for his...
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  • coach Erik de Laval (1888–1973), Swedish modern pentathlete François de Laval (1623–1708), the first bishop of Quebec City Georg de Laval (1883–1970)...
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    Vachon, André (1969). "Laval, François de". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 2. University of Toronto / Université Laval. Archived from the original...
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  • François-Xavier Fumu Tamuzo (born 3 April 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 2 club Laval. He is a former France...
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    of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity. The...
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  • Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585) 1708 – François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623) 1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke...
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    Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. During the Third Republic, he served...
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    founding. François de Laval (1658–1674) François de Laval (1674–1688) Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier (1688–1727) Louis-François Duplessis...
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    Coeuret and Monseigneur François de Laval. The marble funerary stones of Monseigneur Mathieu Thoreau and Monseigneur Jean-François Dondel. Another funerary...
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  • She was born at Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, the daughter of Guy XVI de Laval, count of Laval, and of Charlotte of Aragon, Princess of Taranto. She was the only...
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    André de Lohéac, captured by the English on 16 March 1428, during the siege of Laval. The House of Laval (namely Guy XIV, Anne and Jeanne de Laval-Tinténiac...
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  • The Laval Titan was one of the names used by a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) franchise that played in Laval, Quebec...
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    King. 1663 - François de Laval founds the Séminaire de Québec, now known as the Université Laval. 1663 - Arrival of Augustin de Saffray de Mézy, first...
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  • Stade Lavallois (redirect from Stade Laval)
    also referred to as Stade Lavallois or simply Laval, is a French association football club based in Laval in western France. The club was formed on 17...
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    seen on entering the basilica, "Marie de L'Incarnation", "Saint Joseph", "The Virgin with Jesus", ""François de Laval", and "St. Joachim", in addition to...
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    the establishment of the Sovereign Council and conflict with Bishop François de Laval. Mézy died in office at Quebec on 6 May 1665. Mézy came from a family...
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