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    Cécile Bois is a French actress. Cécile Bois grew up in Lormont, Gironde, France.[citation needed] While at school, Bois joined an amateur theatre troupe...
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    restaurant located in Roanne, held by Jean-Baptiste Troisgros and his wife Marie, then by their sons Jean and Pierre under the name of Les Frères Troisgros...
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    Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Aviva have their French headquarters in Bois-Colombes. The commune of Bois-Colombes (literally "Dove Woods") was created on 13 March...
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    (eds.): Expériences de la guerre, pratiques de la paix. Homages to Jean-Pierre Bois. Presses universitaires de Rennes 2013, pp. 81–96 (books.openedition...
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    coureur des bois (French: [kuʁœʁ de bwɑ]; lit. '"runner of the woods"') or coureur de bois (French: [kuʁœʁ də bwɑ]; plural: coureurs de(s) bois) were independent...
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    after their first significant success, a play entitled Robins des bois. Les Robins des Bois first appeared on television in La Grosse Emission, a regular...
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    soon become Les Robins des Bois. Rouve lived several years with the novelist Bénédicte Martin; the couple had a son. "Jean-Paul Rouve". unifrance.org...
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    Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages (French: [sulaʒ]; 24 December 1919 – 25 October 2022) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President...
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  • spelled DuBois or Du Bois, from the French of the woods/forest) is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Florent du Bois de La Villerabel...
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    for planting the great gardens of the French Second Empire; the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris, Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, the remaking...
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  • Jean-Pierre Pernot (born 25 June 1947) is a French politician. Pernot was born in Clichy-sous-Bois on 25 June 1947. He was first elected mayor of Méry-sur-Oise...
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    the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2019. Jean-Pierre Jouyet was born on 13 February 1954 in Montreuil-sous-Bois in the suburbs of Paris. His last political...
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    in the Bois de Boulogne (1868), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir A horse race in the Bois de Boulogne (1872), by Édouard Manet Strollers in the Bois de Boulogne...
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    memorial to him at the Porte Dauphine on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Some of Jean-Pierre Wimille's race victories: 1932: Hill climb Nice - La...
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    formed in 1996 with fellow former Cours Florent students Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Jean-Paul Rouve, Marina Foïs, Maurice Barthélemy and Pascal Vincent...
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  • In mathematics, the Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie (SGA) was an influential seminar run by Alexander Grothendieck. It was a unique phenomenon...
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  • Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered...
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    of Abbé Jean de Dieulouard and stayed at the abbey. The 16th century was a time of prosperity for Sainte-Marie-au-Bois. In 1504, Abbot Pierre de Prény...
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    Beaumonts, bordering on Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec, Rosny-sous-Bois and Fontenay-sous-Bois). Decorations (ceramics and frescoes) in the state school "Voltaire"...
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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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    wife, Marie-Pierre. The hotel was bought by Michel's grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, in 1930. Michel is the cook and his wife Marie-Pierre (they met...
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    its public facilities. There is a taxi rank at Aulnay-sous-Bois station. Aulnay-sous-Bois is located 5 km from Charles de Gaulle Airport. The airport...
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    Du Bois rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights. Du Bois and his...
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    the island to the shores of the lake. View of the lake at the Bois de la Cambre The Bois de la Cambre in the autumn Water towers Ice rink in the snow Belgium...
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    Saint-Pierre-Bois (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ bwa]; German: Sankt Petersholz; Alsatian: Sàm Peterschulz) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department...
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  • Jean-Pierre Gilson (born 25 April 1948) is a French landscape photographer. His work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and Centre régional...
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    1991 - Jean-Jacques Antier 1992 - Bernard Pierre 1993 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas 1994 - Michel Debré 1995 - Alain Peyrefitte 1996 - Jean-Pierre Bois 1998 -...
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    Sir Jean de Carrouges IV (c. 1330s – 25 September 1396) was a French knight who governed estates in Normandy as a vassal of Count Pierre d'Alençon and...
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  • Jean-Pierre Mignard (born 22 March 1951) is a prominent French lawyer, lecturer, political advisor and author born in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) in...
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    The junior high schools are named after: Pierre Brossolette, Henri Sellier, Jean Zay, Jean Renoir, and Pierre Curie There are three state-funded high schools:...
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