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    Press. ISBN 0-8018-8323-7. Yves Buffetaut, « La prise de Vire par les grandes compagnies », Itinéraires de Normandie, no 15, septembre 2009, p. 60-64. "Italy...
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    population; popular revolts known as Jacqueries; free companies (Grandes Compagnies) of routiers who plundered the country; and English aggression that...
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    and rampart of the chateau in order to resist the assaults of the "grandes compagnies" that were devastating Provence at the time. The population of the...
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     280–81. Coquéry-Vidrovitch, Catherine (1971). Le Congo au temps des grandes compagnies concessionaires 1898–1930. Paris: Mouton. p. 195. L'Aventure Humaine:...
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    12 October 2008. Bonnassieux, Louis Jean Pierre Marie (1892). Les grandes compagnies de commerce: étude pour servir à l'histoire de la colonisation (in...
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    link] Buffetaut, Yves (September 2009). "La prise de Vire par les Grandes Compagnies". Itinéraires de Normandie. 15: 60–64. ISSN 1950-9324. Archived from...
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    Gilgenkrantz, Simone (April 2011). "Grandeur et vicissitudes de deux grandes Compagnies d'optique allemandes: II. La firme Leitz" [Greatness and tribulations...
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  • the networks of the intérêt général, which were concessions of the grandes compagnies ("Big Companies") who ran their lines for profit. The Prefect of the...
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  • of the Hundred Years' War was the formation of "free companies" (Grandes compagnies) from unemployed soldiers and mercenaries formerly hired by the king...
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  • assumed the regency and attempted to negotiate with England. The grandes compagnies (demobilized mercenary soldiers) pillaged the countryside, and to...
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    Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2017-07-13. Les Grandes Compagnies De Commerce: Étude Pour Servir À L'histoire De La Colonisation by...
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  • Bonnassieux, Pierre (1892). Les grandes compagnies de commerce: étude pour servir à l'histoire de la colonisation [The grand companies of commerce: A study...
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    very high", noting, "The whites who worked for what was left of the Grandes Compagnies Concessionaires hated Boganda, who had been instrumental in finally...
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    1365, the future Constable of France Bertrand Du Guesclin sent the "grandes compagnies" (mercenaries who, in times of peace, plunder the regions they found...
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    Armagnac and, with Francois d'Albret, led columns of the forces of the Grandes Compagnies de France (mercenary bands of brigands) in Lombardy. In July 1391...
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    hardships to come, of which there were many: the Hundred Years' War, the Grandes Compagnies and the Écorcheurs, and the epidemics and calamities that these brought...
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    During the Hundred Years War, Bernard de la Salle, a captain in the Grandes Compagnies et Gascon took possession of Chateau de Anglais in 1378. During the...
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    2021. Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine (2017). Le Congo au temps des grandes compagnies concessionnaires 1898–1930 [The Congo in the Time of the Large Concessionary...
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  • put in place the compagnies d'ordonnance, the first permanent units of the French army ; the Grande ordonnance des Eaux et Forêts (Grand Ordinance of the...
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    body founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1622 under the denomination of Compagnies Ordinaires de la Mer, were originally intended to form the garrisons of...
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  • Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests (category Grands corps de l'État)
    also work for every French Ministries, public establishments, or public compagnies. Thanks to its history and its selective recruitment policy, the Corps...
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    prize awarded in France every four years by the Fédération Nationale des Compagnies de Théâtre amateur et d'Animation (National Federation of Amateur theatre...
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  • Grande Armée (redirect from Grand Army)
    Tactical Organization; Revolutionary National Guard, Volunteers Federes, & Compagnies Franches; and 1805 National Guard., Nafziger, George. 98 pages. <THE NAFZIGER...
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    developed in two distinct areas: increasing numbers of Marshalcy Companies (compagnies de marechaussée), dispersed into small detachments, were stationed around...
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    control and crowd control and security of public buildings, called the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS). Vans of CRS agents are frequently seen...
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  • statutes. R. Demeur, Les chemins de fer français en 1860: Statuts des compagnies, notices historiques-situations financières avec une introduction, Chez...
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    mercenary companies were given a choice of either joining the Royal army as compagnies d'ordonnance on a permanent basis or being hunted down and destroyed if...
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    conquest of Algeria and during the Crimean War. The French also employed the compagnies d'exclus ("companies of the excluded"), military units which were stationed...
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  • Lorraine. Bourseiller won the Prix du Concours des Jeunes compagnies in 1960 and the Grand Prix du théâtre du Syndicat de la critique in 1963. He had...
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  • Pierre Langlais (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    Cyr Military Academy and graduated in 1930. He chose to serve in the Compagnies Méharistes in North Africa patrolling the Sahara. Langlais stayed in North...
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