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    The Republican Guard (French: Garde républicaine) is part of the French National Gendarmerie. It is responsible for special security duties in the Paris...
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    not only from the lofty settings of haute couture but also in such avant-garde environments as Limbo, the store in Manhattan's East Village. Givenchy's...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    October 2015. Perry, Gillian (1995). Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde: Modernism and 'feminine Art' Art, 1900 to the Late 1920s. Manchester University...
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    man he won a fencing contest leading to his appointment as a "gendarme de la garde du roi" by king Louis XVI. Having received music and musical composition...
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    de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de...
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    fatigué. Les échecs de la gauche au pouvoir, 1993. Les Nouveaux Chiens de garde, 1997 ; updated and enlarged in 2005. Quand la gauche essayait, Arléa, 2000...
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  • (1886) La Petite Roque (1886) Le Horla (1887) Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888) La Main gauche (1889) L'Inutile Beauté (1890) A Life (1883) Bel-Ami (1885)...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on...
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    mid-afternoon the crowd was reinforced by mutinous Gardes Françaises of the Royal Army and two cannons. De Launay ordered a ceasefire; despite his surrender...
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    of entertainment. Princess de Polignac's gatherings continued to be important to avant-garde music. The circles of Madame de Noailles included Proust,...
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    with cries of À bas la Loupe, à bas la belle Ledoiska, à bas les gardes du corps de Louvet! ("Down with the She-Wolf, down with beautiful Ledoiska, down...
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  • Dominique (12 December 2010). "L'ancien président du conseil général du Nord garde la forme et la fibre associative". La Voix du Nord (in French). Archived...
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    incorporated all the modern comforts of the time: freight elevator, pass-through, garde manger and garbage chute in the kitchen; automated watering system on the...
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    LFI garde la première". France 3 Occitanie (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2022. Marianne (20 June 2022). "Législatives : qui sont les députés de gauche...
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    Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island) is an island in the river Seine in the center of Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site...
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  • Rix "Champs Élysées" by John Ireland "Champs Elysées" by la Musique de la Garde Républicaine "Champs Elysées" by London "Champs Elysees" by Lou Breese...
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    Duchamp, Daniel Spoerri, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. Seeing these avant-garde works triggered her "first great...
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    Corinthian columnns. The building on the east, the Hôtel de la Marine, was originally the royal Garde-Meuble, the depot for all the royal furnishings. Marie-Antoinette...
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    the Rive Gauche of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde. The original palace was built beginning in 1722 for Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess...
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    "new theater" movement was originally a Paris-based (and a Rive Gauche) avant-garde phenomenon tied to extremely small theatres in the Quartier Latin...
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  • German Railway Company. Gauche prolétarienne Mao-Spontex Christophe Bourseiller, Les maoïstes. La folle histoire des gardes rouges français, éditions...
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    under the control of the Paris Police Prefecture, for those prisoners in "Garde à vue", who most report regularly to the police. About eighty such individuals...
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  • (which is a corruption of avant-garde) or "advance guard", in other words, "first to attack" (antonym of arrière-garde). avant la lettre used to describe...
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    included two commanding officers – Lieutenant-colonel Brunet de Sairigné and Lieutenant-colonel Gaucher. In 1955, the 13e DBLE was found back on the African continent...
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    2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017. "Grèce: Macron met en garde contre un " traité de Versailles de la zone euro "". Le Monde. 15 November 2016. Retrieved...
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    the right bank and the Tour de Nesle on the left bank. The lower floor beneath the Grand'Salle contained the Salle des Gardes for the soldiers who protected...
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    (1758). Essai d'une histoire de la paroisse de St. Jacques de la Boucherie: ou l'on traité de l'Origine de cette Eglise, de ses Antiquités. Paris: Prault...
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    Bonnard Maud de Belleroche Jean Bichelonne Victor Barthélemy Louis-Ferdinand Céline Victor Debeney Lucette Destouches Roland Gaucher Jacques Bouly de Lesdain...
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    expositions mostly modern foreign works. The gallery shifted towards an avant-garde style with the 1937 Exposition Internationale and an "Origins and development...
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    Delvaux, for instance, studied and lived there, as did the avant-garde dramatist Michel de Ghelderode. The city was also home of the impressionist painter...
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