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    Don Pèdre, roi de Castille (Don Pedro, King of Castille) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. He began work on it in 1761 but only finished it in 1774...
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    Pedro López de Ayala (1332–1407). To put that in perspective are a biography by Prosper Mérimée, Histoire de Don Pedro I, roi de Castille (1848) and a...
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    Voltaire (redirect from Jean Plokof)
    inspiration for Tancredi, opera by Gioachino Rossini (1813) Don Pèdre, roi de Castille (1774) Sophonisbe (1774) Irène (1778) Agathocle (1779) Henriade (1723)...
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    p. 764; Jean-Claude Fauveau, Le Prince Louis Cardinal de Rohan-Guéméné ou les diamants du roi, L'Harmattan, 2007; Charles Floquet Au coeur de l'Arcoat...
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    Review. 65 (4): 669–676. ISSN 0018-702X. JSTOR 43489293. La vie privée du roi de Prusse von Voltaire, p. 3 Zinsser, pp. 19, 21, 22. Zinsser, pp. 16–17; for...
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    François au Grand Nez ('Francis of the Large Nose'), the Grand Colas, and the Roi-Chevalier (the 'Knight-King'). In keeping with his predecessors, Francis...
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  • Marcel Brion (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    Magnifique, Albin Michel, 1937 Blanche de Castille, Les éditions de France, 1939 Machiavel, Albin Michel, 1948 Frédéric II de Hohenstaufen, Tallandier, 1948 Le...
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    Philippe Delorme (category Lycée Janson-de-Sailly alumni)
    Albert II de Monaco. Les surprises du prince (préface de Jacqueline Monsigny et Edward Meeks), Michel Lafon, 2006 L'homme qui rêvait d'être roi. Entretien...
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    Pierre, Histoire de la reunion de la Navarre à la Castille (Paris, 1893) Chappuys, Histoire du royaume de Navarre (Paris, 1590; 1616) Collins, Roger (1989)...
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    Jeannin. His son-in-law, Pierre de Castille, hired Lescarbot as his secretary to accompany him to Switzerland, where Castille had been appointed ambassador...
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    luminary interview conducted by Christophe Chabert in Act II of the documentary film Aux sources de Kaamelott. This documentary was produced between 2006...
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    himself up as a barber surgeon. After "pensively proceeding through the two Castilles, la Mancha, Extremadura, the Sierra Morena, and Andalusia" he set up shop...
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    Basse-Normandie. Jean-Armand de Joyeuse, named marquis de Joyeuse, marshal of France. François de Calvo, lieutenant général des armées du Roi, governor of...
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    Daumet, Georges (1898). E. Bouillon (ed.). Étude sur l'alliance de la France et de la Castille aux XIV et au XV siècles (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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    greater fortune when he married the second time, to Marie-Madeleine de Castille, whose family was one of the wealthiest in Europe. Fouquet began as a...
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  • 1837 Rodelinda, Handel, 1725 Rogneda, Serov, 1865 Le Roi Arthus, Ernest Chausson, 1903 Le roi de Lahore, Massenet, 1877 Roméo et Juliette, Gounod, 1867...
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    Philip II Augustus of France built a new castle; its most famous owners were: Blanche de Castille, Louis d'Évreux, Jean, duc de Berry, François de Lorraine...
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    by Henry's men: Pedro Manrique, governor of Castile, and Pedro Rois Sarmento. Fernando de Castro fled to Portugal, but was later banished to Gascony under...
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  • d'història de Catalunya. Edicions 62. ISBN 978-84-297-3521-5. Schäfer, Heinrich (1840). Histoire de Portugal: depuis sa séperation de la Castille jusqu'à...
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    verse diction, paused at the hemistiche. The result was: "Oui, de ta suite, ô roi! de ta suite j'en suis!" Hugo was forced to rework the verse. As the...
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    al-Tenessy; M. l'abbé J.-J.-L. Bargès (1887). Complément de l'histoire des Beni-Zeiyan, rois de Tlemcen (406) (in French). Paris: E. Leroux. p. 612. Retrieved...
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    pièces de Litterature, Paris, Chez Prault fils, Libraire, Quai de Conty, vis-à-vis la descente du Pont-Neuf, à la Charitè, M. DCC. XLIV, 8°, XXIV (II), 116...
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    William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963. Castille, Philip D. (1992). "Dilsey's Easter Conversion in Faulkner's The Sound...
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    Castille or France—were published into the first decades of the 18th century. Authors include Madame Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, Mlle Charlotte-Rose de...
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    Albert Salamon, D'un coup de pioche dans un pilier du maître-autel, l'abbé Saunière met à jour le trésor de Blanche de Castille ("With one blow of the pick-axe...
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    Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, now a UNESCO World Heritage site (1845) Histoire de don Pédre, roi de Castille – a biography of Peter of Castile, also known as Peter the Cruel...
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  • Annales de Normandie 1988, Volume 22, Issue 22, pp. 3–140 1902encyclopedia.com Colliers (Scotland) Act 1799 c. 56, Section 1 Maurice Druon, Le Roi de fer...
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  • Adolphe Adam (1803–1856): Le chalet, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, La poupée de Nuremberg, Si j'étais roi, Le toréador Mark Adamo (1962– ): Little Women, Lysistrata...
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    d'usufruit, son Duché au Roi. Celui-ci accorde alors à l'usufruitier, sa vie durant, le droit de transférer la dénomination de Duché-pairie de Belle-Isle sur ses...
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  • Voltaire. Tallandier. p. 499. ISBN 979-10-210-0908-0. Jean-François Laharpe (1840). Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne. Firmin Didot Frères. p...
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