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    Mattheus Lestevenon, heer van Berckenrode (1715–1797, The Hague) was a city-secretary and schepen in Amsterdam, then Dutch ambassador to France. Lestevenon...
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  • Brazilian writer Mattheus de Haan (1663-1729), Dutch colonial governor Mattheus van Helmont (1623–c. 1685), Flemish painter Mattheus Lestevenon (1715–1797)...
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    11. Technical details Signed at Paris, 20 May 1784, by Daniel Hailes; Lestevenon van Berkenroode and Gerard Brantsen. The Dutch had been dragged into the...
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    Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (Amsterdam Public Library) until 2007, Mattheus Lestevenon, the ambassador in France, and the bankers and art collectors Thomas...
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    Minister, the Marquis de Puisieulx and Netherlands ambassador to Paris Mattheus Lestevenon, sends a letter that ultimately persuades the States-General of the...
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  • vroedschap and as a counsellor to the Admiralty of Amsterdam, thanks to Mattheus Lestevenon. In 1729 Nicolaes Geelvinck married Johanna Jacoba Graafland. His...
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    Minister, the Marquis de Puisieulx and Netherlands ambassador to Paris Mattheus Lestevenon, sends a letter that ultimately persuades the States-General of the...
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  • politician and art collector. Willem Anne Lestevenon was born in Paris, where his father, Mattheus Lestevenon, was an ambassador of the United Provinces...
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    Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (together with ambassador Mattheus Lestevenon) for the Republic to negotiate the 1784 treaty that ended the Fourth...
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    Elizabeth Lestevenon (1716–1766). She was a daughter of Abraham Lestevenon (1675-1728) and Geertruid de Vroede (1681-1745) and herself a nice of Mattheus Lestevenon...
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    the Amsterdam council by Mattheus Lestevenon, he sold the title to him. The castle burned from neglect in 1747. Lestevenon, who called himself "heer...
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    Nicolaes Sautijn(−1743) (1748) – Nicolaes Geelvinck (1722–1736) – Mattheus Lestevenon (1674–1743) (1737, 1740, 1743) – Gerrit Hooft II (1684–1767) (1740)...
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    moved to Paris, where he met with James Cockburn, Lord Hertford, Mattheus Lestevenon, David Hume John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford and Denis Diderot....
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    by Pompeo Batoni. Suffren's statue in Saint Tropez. The envoys Mattheus Lestevenon and Gerard Brantsen presenting vice-admiral Pierre André Bailly de...
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  • Minister, the Marquis de Puisieulx and Netherlands ambassador to Paris Mattheus Lestevenon, sends a letter that ultimately persuades the States-General of the...
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    Gerard Aarnout Hasselaar and Willem Gideon Deutz. On the advice of Mattheus Lestevenon, seventeen council members were replaced, nineteen were able to keep...
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  • violinist came to the attention of the Amsterdam city Secretary, Mattheus Lestevenon, who arranged for him (barely sixteen) to study in Italy where he...
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    second wife Elizabeth Lestevenon (1716–1766). Gerrit was related through his father's marriages to the ambassador Mattheus Lestevenon and Apollonius Jan...
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    February 1788 but he left with Lambert van Eck for Paris. He spoke with Mattheus Lestevenon, and unsuccessfully mediated between the quarreling democratic and...
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  • Charlotte Windsor ⚭ 1736 John Kent Hon. Catharine Windsor (1716–1742) ⚭ Mattheus Lestevenon (1715–1797), a daughter who died at a young age Charlotte died in...
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    1759, the Hope business had 26 co-workers. In 1758, Thomas bought Mattheus Lestevenon's (then Dutch ambassador in France) attractive building at Keizersgracht...
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    de Mol, which he bought outright in 1782. He bought the house of Mattheus Lestevenon on the Herengracht in 1761, and later owned Singel No. 292. This...
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