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    Horace Bénédict de Saussure (French pronunciation: [ɔʁas benedikt də sosyʁ]; 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist...
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    until 1792. In 1760, Swiss naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure began to go to Chamonix to observe Mont Blanc. He tried to summit it with the Courmayeur...
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    summit ridge of the Mont Blanc on 3 August 1787, during one of the first climbs of the mountain by the Swiss scientific pioneer Horace Bénédict de Saussure...
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    1550/60–1630). By 1618, he travelled to Lyon to work in the studio of Horace le Blanc, who must have recognised the young artist’s promise because when he...
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    Chamonix (redirect from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc)
    Chosalets, Le Lavancher, Les Tines, Les Bois, Les-Praz-de-Chamonix 1,060 m (3,478 ft), Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Les Pècles, Les Mouilles, Les Barrats, Les Pélerins...
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    The Mont Blanc massif (French: Massif du Mont-Blanc; Italian: Massiccio del Monte Bianco) is a mountain range in the Alps, located mostly in France and...
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    (c. 1890) Tramway du Mont-Blanc, at Bellevue Station (1,794 m) in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Jacques Balmat at the side of Horace-Benedict de Saussure, "The...
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  • uncle Nicolas Baullery. Jean-Baptiste also stayed with the painter Horace Le Blanc in Lyon before accompanying Jacques to Italy, where they set out for...
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    (2,965) Le Cheval Blanc (2,831) Fonts refuge France Switzerland Grenairon refuge Pierre à Bérard refuge Mont Buet (3,096)    View of Mont Blanc from Mont...
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    there proclaimed President of the Italian Republic. Thomas Blanchet, Horace le Blanc, Magnan and Pierre David are the sculptors or painters whose works...
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    The Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m; 13,806 ft) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, on the boundary between Haute-Savoie in France and Aosta Valley in Italy...
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    Jaffe. Camion Blanc, 2013 ISBN 978-2-35779-273-9. Rasta & Résistance (directeur d'ouvrage et préface). Author : Horace Campbell. Camion blanc, 2014 ISBN 978-2-35779-499-3...
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    filles en blanc (1943) .... Un jeune homme Marie la Misère [fr] (1945) .... Georges Naïs (1945) .... Frédéric Jericho (1946) .... Pierre, le fils du pharmacien...
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    Goûter Hut (category Mont Blanc massif)
    rail, when the Tramway du Mont Blanc was extended to its present terminus Nid d'Aigle. After the Genevan scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1760 offered...
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    Saussure, Horace-Bénédict de (1779). Voyages dans les Alpes. Tome 1 / , précédés d'un Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des environs de Genève, par Horace-Bénédict...
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    the reward offered 25 years before by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure to the first man who could climb Mont Blanc. On 3 August 1787 he assisted de Saussure...
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    in place of gin. White negroni: gin, Lillet blanc, and Suze Unusual negroni: gin, Aperol and Lillet blanc A negroni served with a dash of freshly squeezed...
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    Frochard Le merle blanc (1944) - Jules Leroy Lunegarde (1946) - Monsieur de Vertumne Christine Gets Married (1946) - Sébastien Aurelle - le musicien A...
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    The Hôtel des Invalides (English: "house of invalids"), commonly called Les Invalides (French pronunciation: [lezɛ̃valid]), is a complex of buildings...
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  • Bois below it." In 1786 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure published in French a collection of travel writings titled Voyages Dans les Alpes, Précédés d’un Essai...
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  • had been born no later than 1890, but researchers Bob Eagle and Eric S. LeBlanc give 1899 on the basis of his entry in the 1930 US Census. He left home...
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    was a confectioner. He showed an early aptitude for art and studied with Horace Mollard (1800-1872), a local landscape painter. When he had mastered the...
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    Savoy, the Piedmont and the Swiss environs of Mont Blanc. H.-B. de Saussure et les Alpes, 1870 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and the Alps. Description géologie...
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    Glacier Blanc. The mountain is surrounded by four glaciers: to the north-west is the Bonne Pierre glacier, to the north-east the Glacier Blanc, to the...
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    métrique latine : le pentamètre dactylique, Extract from the Bulletin mensuel de la Faculté des lettres de Caen, published by F. Le Blanc-Hardel 1885 : Essai...
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    thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the French–Italian border, and at 4,809 m (15,778 ft)...
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  • Carrie Everett J. D. Evermore as Mark LeBlanc Monica Wyche as Sandra LeBlanc Dawn Greenhalgh as Elvira 'Vera' LeBlanc Joy Tanner as Jill Raven Dauda as Angela...
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  • Name Category Address Date Horace Heidt Radio 1631 Vine Street (1960-02-08)February 8, 1960 Television 6628 Hollywood Boulevard (1960-02-08)February 8...
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    example thereof is the famous multi-volume work "Voyages dans les Alpes" (1779–1796) by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. In his work the naturalist from Geneva...
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    Moore and Horace Walker on 6 July 1865 Pigne d'Arolla (Pennine Alps) with A. W. Moore and Melchior Anderegg on 9 July 1865 Brenva Spur of Mont Blanc (Mont...
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