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    Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December...
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    Charles-Henri Sanson (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic. He administered...
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    Literature against Louis XIV, Jansenism and the Dauphin’s Court Faction." French History 31.2 (2017): 152–173. Wolf, John B. Louis XIV (NY: 1968). Lahaye...
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    Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ (category Court of Louis XVI)
    company. pp. 123, 135. louis xvi executed. Nagel, Susan. " Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter ". NY: Bloomsbury, 2008...
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    Philippe, Count of Artois. Her husband was the grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of Louis XVI. Nineteen years after Maria Theresa’s death, her spouse...
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    Louis XVI; David voted for the death of the King, causing his wife, Marguerite Charlotte, a royalist, to divorce him.[citation needed] When Louis XVI...
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    other common, more grisly methods of execution and sought to persuade Louis XVI of France to implement a less painful alternative. While not the device's...
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    governess to Élisabeth of France (1764–1794) and later to the children of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette from 1771 and 1792. She was the daughter...
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    Method of St. Louis de Montfort. Bay Shore NY: Montfort Publications, 2001. de Montfort, Louis. God Alone: The Collected Writings of St. Louis Marie De Montfort...
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    Camus identifies Saint-Just's successful argument for the execution of Louis XVI as the moment of death for monarchical divine right, a Nietzschean Twilight...
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    19th centuries (the Louis XVI, Directoire and Louis Philippe), and who want to bring a new approach to these styles. The neo-Louis XVI style was really popular...
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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (category Knights of the Order of Saint Louis)
    monarchy; the comte de Provence (brother of the executed Louis XVI) took the throne as Louis XVIII. Lafayette was received by the new king, but the staunch...
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  • That Night in Varennes (category Cultural depictions of Louis XVI)
    Precy Hugues Quester as Jean-Louis Romeuf Jean-Louis Trintignant as Monsieur Sauce Michel Piccoli as King Louis XVI "NY Times: That Night in Varennes"...
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    Hope Diamond (category Louis XIV)
    piece fell into disuse after the death of Louis XV. The diamond became the property of his grandson Louis XVI. whose wife, queen Marie Antoinette, used...
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    Manifesto, threatening the destruction of Paris should any harm come to King Louis XVI of France. This foreign threat exacerbated France's political turmoil...
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    Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence (French pronunciation: [kolɛ̃kuʁ], 9 December 1773 – 19 February 1827), was a French military officer...
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    (1553–1610) Louis XIII (1601–1643) Louis XIV (1638–1715) Louis XV (1710–1774) Louis XVI (1754–1793) and Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) Louis XVII (1785–1795)...
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  • the House of Orleans, the company also included King Louis XVI, Napoleon Bonaparte, and King Louis XVIII as its clients. He was also born in Normandy like...
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    The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith. New York, NY: Continuum, 2000. Reprinted in 2005 as Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger. Conclave: The...
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    and designed furniture in Louis XVI style. http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Cauvet/112182 Myers, Mary L.; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of...
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    opposition. Upon first reading a manuscript of Beaumarchais's play, King Louis XVI stated that "this man mocks everything that must be respected in a government"...
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  • of other architects such as French-Swiss Le Corbusier, Estonian-American Louis Kahn, German-American Mies van der Rohe, and Finnish Alvar Aalto. In the...
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    long letter, as he had not had time to write a shorter one. From Letter XVI, as translated by Thomas M'Crie: 'Reverend fathers, my letters were not wont...
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    Timothy M. Dolan (category Cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI)
    and current archbishop of New York, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. Dolan served as the president of the United States Conference of...
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  • Municipal Kihara Observatory JPL · 8660 8661 Ratzinger 1990 TA13 Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, a German professor of theology...
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    and the following year published Paroles d'un croyant, which Pope Gregory XVI condemned for its philosophical theories. He served as a deputy for Paris...
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    (present-day Mauritius) eight years earlier. Lapérouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI and by the Secretary of State of the Navy, the Marquis de Castries, to...
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    protest in New York City. Her use of the word Nazi to describe Pope Benedict XVI on October 15, 2011, generated complaints from Roman Catholic authorities...
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    Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis XVI and Louis Philippe I; and the exoticized styles of art from China, Japan, India...
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  • novels". Cullinan & Person 2003. pp. 171–175. Silvey 1995, pp. xi–xvi Hunt 2001, p. xvi–xxii Vijay Bedekar (27 December 2008). "Seminar on 'Suhbashita,...
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