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    Lettres de cachet (French: [lɛtʁ də kaʃɛ]; lit. '"letters of the sign/signet"') were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his...
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  • The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (French for 'Order of Arts and Letters') is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture...
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    A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...
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    Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient, 1749), Denis Diderot takes on the question...
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    (1 January 1765). "Lettres, mémoires et négociations particuliéres du chevalier d'Éon: Ministre Plénipotentiaire auprès du Roi de la Grande-Bretagne;...
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    Arabes ?, Lettre civile et honnête à l'auteur malhonnête de la "Critique de l'histoire universelle de M. de Voltaire" (1760), dans Œuvres complètes de Voltaire...
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    under the protection of the president of the republic. Esplanade in front of the institute, 1898 A plaque on the northern wall of the Institut de France...
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    Ambassadeurs Lettres à une jeune fille (1950) Lettres de jeunesse, 1923–1931 (1953) Lettres à l'amie inventée (1953) Carnets (1953) Lettres à sa mère (1955)...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    local de services communautaires (CLSC), Centre d'hébergement et de soins de longue durée (CHSLD), Centre de réadaptation and Centre de protection de l'enfance...
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    suspected of murder, the Comte de Solages, imprisoned by his father using a lettre de cachet. A previous prisoner the Marquis de Sade had been transferred...
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    Français 1792–1793 – Lettres de Maximilien Robespierre, membre de la Convention nationale de France, à ses commettans 1794 – Lettre de Robespierre, au général...
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    (1860). Livre d'art de la Reine Hortense: (Album artistique de la Reine Hortense) ; une visite a Augsbourg, esquisse biographique ; lettres, dessins et musique...
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    libre Tome XVIII: Sur le sens du mot révolutionnaire Tome XIX: Lettre d'un laboureur de Picardie, A.M.N.*** Tome XX: Mélanges d'economie politique Tome...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    INSEAD) as well as multidisciplinary universities (Paris Sciences et Lettres University). Health care and emergency medical service in the City of Paris...
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    manuscripts of the Saint-Germain fonds, no. 944, as given by the "Lettres écrites de la Vendée": "At two leagues from Paris is Meudon, where is seen in...
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    Arts et des Lettres 1994: Officier of the Legion of Honour Rothschild family Edmond de Rothschild Group Edmond de Rothschild Heritage Edmond de Rothschild...
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  • acronym in French [English: Society for the Protection of Animals] is France's oldest animal protection association. Founded on 2 December 1845 and recognized...
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    Lettre Circulaire, 1887. Lausanne: Archives Cantonales Vaudoises. 1887. p. 131. Huguenin, Claire (2010). Patrimoines en Stock: Les Collections de Chillon...
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  • socialite. In 2003, he was appointed a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his restoration of the Hôtel Lambert, where he was known for hosting...
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    1789, Provence successfully asked his brother, Louis XVI, to issue a lettre de cachet, which expelled Gourbillon to her husband in Lille. This took place...
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    At the outbreak of World War II, Charles de Gaulle was put in charge of the French Fifth Army's tanks (five scattered battalions, largely equipped with...
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    (Mollat, G., op cit, pj, no II pp. 49–50. See also Jean XXII (1316–1334) Lettres secretes et curiales relating to France, by Coulon, A. and Clemencet, S...
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    Félibien, Michel. 1973. Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France: Lettre-préf. de M. le Duc de Bauffremont. Introd. de Hervé Pinoteau. 1. [Nachdr...
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  • Girls, A Man A Fish Rodney Saint-Éloi poet Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé Kerri Sakamoto 1960 novelist The Electrical...
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    Échappés, 2013 (with Zineb) Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes, éditions Les Échappés, Lettre A, 2015 (postum) Illustrations...
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    Hoq Cave (section Protection)
    antiques de la grotte de Hôq (Suqutra, Yémen) (note d'information)". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (in French)...
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    Belles Lettres, 2007. J.-Y. Guillaumin, Martianus Capella. Les noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Livre VII: l'arithmétique, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2003...
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    le commerce from the English of Josias Tucker, and in 1754 he wrote his Lettre sur la tolérance civile, and a pamphlet, Le Conciliateur, in support of...
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    Lake Geneva (redirect from Lac de Genève)
    rhone-geneve.ch. Retrieved on 20 July 2009 La lettre du Léman, bulletin of the Commission internationale pour la protection des eaux du Léman, number 54, June 2017...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
     14–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2023. De Gaulle, Charles (2014). Lettres, notes et carnets, t. 1 : 1905-1918 (in French). Place des...
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