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    Henri Philippe de Chauvelin (1714–1770) was a French cleric and politician. He was a canon of Notre Dame de Paris and a councillor to the parlement de...
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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl/ TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), usually known...
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    Henri-Godefroi-Bernard-Alphonse, 1st Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne, 2nd Marquis de Saint-Paulet (21 October 1823 – 5 May 1871) was a French politician...
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    State, Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie – Minister of Defence Philippe Douste-Blazy – Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Louis Borloo – Minister...
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    turned into a humiliation. Fleury was pressed by his advisor Germain Louis Chauvelin to more energetic measures; he concluded a close alliance with the Spanish...
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    of Culture, and the Conseil d'État. The Galerie de l'avant-cour had ceiling paintings by Philippe de Champaigne, the cardinal's chief portraitist, celebrating...
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    1836. Victor de Broglie was close to the liberal Doctrinaires who opposed the ultra-royalists and were absorbed, under Louis-Philippe's rule, by the Orléanists...
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    Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts François de Mahy – Minister of Agriculture Henri Varroy – Minister of Public Works Adolphe Cochery – Minister...
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    Paul Reynaud (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    June. After unsuccessfully attempting to flee France, he was arrested by Philippe Petain's administration. Surrendering to German custody in 1942, he was...
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    Louis XV (category People of the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans)
    foreign affairs, Germain Louis Chauvelin, for ten years. His minister of the Navy and household of the King, the Conte de Maurepas, was in office the entire...
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    responsible for the creation of the French Foreign Legion. Under King Louis Philippe, he was three times French prime minister from 1832 to 1834, almost a year...
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    the Free French. He left for Algiers, via Spain, where he joined General Henri Giraud. On 7 June 1943, he was named commissioner of finance of the French...
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    Chancellor was Etienne-Denis Pasquier, appointed by King Louis Philippe I in 1837. 496–533: Rémi de Reims, known as Saint Rémi (Référendaire of France) 561:...
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    castle was then inhabited by private individuals. In 1750, Germain-Louis de Chauvelin, lord since 1734, asserting the dilapidation of the building, obtained...
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    the "bourgeois king" Louis-Philippe and the July Monarchy, and his planned volume on the arrest of Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Berry caused him to be (unsuccessfully)...
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    Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 1767 – 5 July 1862), Chancelier de France, (a title revived for him by Louis-Philippe in 1837), was a French...
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    1716–22 : Philippe Néricault Destouches, later comte de Langeron (Acting Attaché) 1718–18 : Yves d'Alègre, marquis de Tourzel 1718–20 : Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire...
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    After France's armistice with Germany in June 1940, Darlan served in Philippe Pétain's Vichy regime as Minister of Marine, and in February 1941 he took...
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    to have furnished to no small extent the original of Honoré de Balzac's character, Henri de Marsay [citation needed]. He signed the journalists' protest...
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    Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (French pronunciation: [ɡastɔ̃ dumɛʁɡ]; 1 August 1863 in Aigues-Vives, Gard – 18 June 1937 in Aigues-Vives) was a French...
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    Aristide Briand (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 498. Bernard, Philippe; Dubief, Henri; Forster, Thony (1985). The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914–1938...
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    the government to fix minimum wages for agriculture and for industry. In Henri Queuille's governments in 1950–1951 he had the office of deputy prime minister...
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    which overthrew King Charles X in favor of the more liberal King Louis Philippe, and the Revolution of 1848, which overthrew the Orléans monarchy and established...
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    into conflict with the Jean-Baptiste de Villèle Cabinet. After the July Revolution, he endorsed Louis-Philippe. Sébastiani's time as Foreign Minister...
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    the banker, Henri Lutteroth [fr]; they had a son Henri (1852–1939), a captain in the Chasseurs Alpins (French Army), who married Émilie de La Robertie...
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    René Pleven (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Chaban-Delmas and Pierre Messmer, signing the pardon of notorious escapee Henri Charrière in 1970. Losing re-election as legislator in 1973, he became president...
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    I's demands for his extradition to Russia. Upon the accession of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans to the French throne in 1830, Walewski was dispatched to Poland...
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    Pierre Laval (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Merchant Marine Victor Denain – Minister of Air Philippe Marcombes – Minister of National Education Henri Maupoil – Minister of Pensions Pierre Cathala...
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    d'Histoire de la Géologie (COFRHIGEO) (séance du 21 juin 1995), retrieved 29 July 2017 Ducloux (1913), "Philippe THOMAS (1843–1910)", Bulletin de la Société...
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    Robert Schuman (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Pétain government. On 10 July, he voted to give full power to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who supported the armistice with Germany, but refused to continue...
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