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    Simone Veil (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj] ; née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who...
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    Christian head covering, also known as Christian veiling, is the traditional practice of women covering their head in a variety of Christian denominations...
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    The veil of Isis is a metaphor and allegorical artistic motif representing the inaccessibility of nature's secrets, personified as the goddess Isis shrouded...
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    was represented by Olivier Metzner, and the Bank was represented by Jean Veil, Jean Reinhart and François Martineau. The trial aroused much media interest...
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    Seydoux Benjamin Siksou Sacha Sperling Marion Van Renterghem Jean Veil Pierre-François Veil Vercors Louis-Charles Viossat Paul Wenz Sonia Wieder-Atherton...
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  • fell to Jean Lecanuet to defend the law in Parliament, but he refused on grounds of personal ethics. Therefore, Minister of Health Simone Veil was charged...
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  • The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: /ˈruːsoʊ/, US: /ruːˈsoʊ/ French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer...
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  • Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres The Blue Veil (Tarbell), 1898 work by American Impressionist painter Edmund C. Tarbell Blue Veil (Scobel), 2003–04...
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    forward by many, including: Jean-Louis Debré: "Rare indeed must be the [phenomenon of] young women who spontaneously wear [the veil] spontaneously, outside...
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    Niqāb (redirect from Total Face Veil)
    Retrieved 13 April 2007. Cornish, Jean-Jacques. "Algerian bans female public servants from wearing full-face veils". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 25 August...
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  • The Blue Veil (French: Le voile bleu) is a 1942 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Gaby Morlay, Elvire Popesco and André Alerme. The...
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    French resistance, were interred in 2015. Simone Veil was interred in 2018, and her husband Antoine Veil was interred alongside her so that they would not...
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  • Director of the Institut Montaigne. His lawyers Sébastien Schapira and Jean Veil, the latter of whom also was the defender of Olivier Duhamel in the Duhamel...
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    The Painted Veil is a 1934 American drama directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Greta Garbo. The film was produced by Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (/ˈæŋɡrə, ˈæ̃ɡrə/ ANG-grə, French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical...
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  • Jean Agélou (16 October 1878 – 2 August 1921) was a French photographer of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for his erotic and nude photographs made at...
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    Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔnɛ]; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and...
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    Burqa (category Veils)
    wearing of the burqa and other types of face veils have been attested to since pre-Islamic times. Face veiling has not been regarded as a religious requirement...
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  • The Veil is an American horror/supernatural anthology television series hosted by and starring Boris Karloff and produced in 1958 by Hal Roach Studios...
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  • face-covering headgear, including masks, helmets, balaclavas, niqābs and other veils covering the face, and full body costumes and zentais (skin-tight garments...
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  • The Long Black Veil is an album by the traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains. Released in 1995, it is one of the most popular and best-selling albums...
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    l'opéra" [The Streets of Aix: Rue de L'Opéra]. "Simone Veil : Qui repose au panthéon ?" [Simon Veil: Who lies in the Panthéon?]. "Salle Casimir-Perier"....
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  • ISBN 1939481147 – LDA (October 3, 2013) Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia ISBN 978-0967673745 – Windsor-Brooke (March 1, 2001) Princess...
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    Watching Over Her obtained the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2023. 2023: Veiller sur elle 2021: Devils and Saints 2019: A Hundred Million Years and a Day...
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  • collection of Veil-Picard are currently in the National Gallery of Art:The Little Preacher, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Dr. Louis Martinet by Jean-Auguste-Dominique...
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    Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases...
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    Eve Brent (redirect from Jean Lewis)
    wasn't picked up. She also appeared in the "Girl on the Road" episode of The Veil, a short 1958 Boris Karloff TV series that was never aired but was found...
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  • and "Long Black Veil". Donna Jean Godchaux of the Grateful Dead sings background vocals on two songs, "Whiskey" and "Long Black Veil". One single was...
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    on lead vocals. In 2007 the band released their third album Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face with singer Benoît David who would record two more studio...
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