• Jean-Pierre Pury (1675 – 1736) was an explorer, geographer and colonist from the Principality of Neuchâtel, a Prussian principality in modern-day Switzerland...
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  • farmer, and diplomat James-Ferdinand de Pury (1823–1902), Swiss businessman and philanthropists Jean-Pierre Pury (1675–1736), Swiss explorer, geographer...
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    Switzerland), one of eight children of the geographer and explorer Jean-Pierre Pury and Lucrèce Chaillet. His father, with the permission of English colonial...
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  • film director Jean-Pierre Papin (b. 1963), a French football player and manager Jean-Pierre Pury (1675–1736), Swiss explorer Jean-Pierre Raffarin (b. 1948)...
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    suited or prepared for the harsh conditions in Louisiana. In 1719, Jean-Pierre Pury, a director at the Company of the Indies, proposed recruiting Germans...
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    colonist Jean-Pierre Pury, winemaker and diplomat Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, painter Edmond Jean de Pury, and biblical scholar Albert de Pury. The de...
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    Pierre-Jean David (12 March 1788 – 4 January 1856) was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason. He adopted the name David d'Angers, following...
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    known, was linked to Antarctica. Much later, Thijssen's findings led Jean-Pierre Pury to propose a Dutch colony on the mainland there in 1717–18. Thijssen...
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    trustees. On 4 December 1731, Oglethorpe entered into a partnership with Jean-Pierre Pury to settle land in South Carolina. He gained a 1/4 stake in a 3,000-acre...
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    suited or prepared for the harsh conditions in Louisiana. In 1719, Jean-Pierre Pury, a director at the Company of the Indies, proposed recruiting Germans...
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  • initially survived because a campsite was found near the wreck. 1714 – Jean-Pierre Pury proposed a Dutch East India Company settlement of Nuyts, Leeuwin and...
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    Rosario Murillo Max Petitpierre Jean Piaget Amélie Plume Valentine Python Edmond Privat Albert de Pury Roland de Pury Ye Peijian Martine Rebetez Élisée...
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  • translator, Anglican minister, son of Isaac Casaubon. Pierre Courthial, founding dean, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence. Daniel de Superville (1696–1773)...
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  • Purrysburgh, Purysburgh, Purisburg, Purisbourg) was named after Jean-Pierre Purry, of the De Pury family from Neuchâtel which during this time did not belong...
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    Rousseau in 1788 in Geneva. DuPeyrou and his wife, Henriette Dorothée de Pury (1750–1818), had no children. In 1799 the mansion was sold to Frédéric de...
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  • (May 16, 2008). "After a Hectic Week, a Partylike Evening at Phillips de Pury Brings in $59 Million". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-01...
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    art critic, Canadian Edmond Jean de Pury, painter, Swiss S. H. Raza, painter, Indian Neel Reid, architect, American Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter Arthur...
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    Pentateuch. From 1984 to 1989, Römer was a research assistant of Albert de Pury in the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Geneva...
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    with images of tender beauty and scenes of brutality. Curated by Simon de Pury. 2021 Oct 16 — NFT. Europe's first dedicated exhibition space to NFTs. The...
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  • Exhibition curated by Laura Heon. February 10 - May 13. (exh. cat.) 2008: De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. June 2 - August 16 2009: Salon 94 Freemans, New York...
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    Lebanon near its newly developed Souk complex, and auction house Phillips de Pury & Company invited the artist to present his work at their London gallery...
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    museum also has numerous works by Jean-Étienne Liotard, Ferdinand Hodler, Félix Vallotton, Edmond Jean de Pury, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The collection...
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    Esprit and L'Ordre Nouveau, and he also co-founded a magazine, with Roland de Pury, on existential theology, Hic et Nunc. In June 1940, fearing that defeatism...
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    This portfolio is administered by their office in Frankfurt. Phillips, de Pury and Company, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2005) Rosen has been married...
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    1937) Carlo Ossola (born 1946) Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Jean Pictet (1914–2002) Franciscus Portus (1511–1581) Albert de Pury (born 1940) William Rappard (1883–1958)...
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    poet, died here Darius Milhaud (1892–1984), composer and teacher Roland de Pury (1907–1979), Swiss minister, died here Nina Simone (1933–2003), American...
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    resistance fighters. He also had friendly relations with Pastor Roland de Pury and Father Chaillet, two other resistance fighters. As the Second World War...
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  • Divisionär Franz Wey (1896–1963), who was succeeded by Burger, Amstutz and de Pury. The latter was promoted to Brigadier-General and Chief of the Territorial...
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    Grande – Locarno Piazza Riforma – Lugano Place des Halles – Neuchâtel Place Pury – Neuchâtel Lindenhof – Rapperswil Marktplatz – St. Gallen In Zürich: Bellevueplatz...
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    de Pury & Company. Rosenberg, David (2010). Philippe Pasqua, « Paradise. Paris: Edition Skira. Rosenberg, David (2010). Palimpseste. Corbu, Jean (2011)...
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