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    from 1770 until 1793. The live rhinoceros was a gift from M. Chevalier, French governor of Chandernagor, to Louis XV. It left Calcutta, West Bengal on...
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    poems, and songs were written about her, and wigs were created à la rhinocéros. Clara was examined by the naturalist Buffon, Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted...
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    months to the Tuileries Palace. 20 June – Statue of Louis XV dedicated in the Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde). 1764 3 April – First stone laid of...
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    "Dialogues de rhinocéros". Retrieved 25 October 2019. Lebreau, Aurélie (6 December 2019). "Gaston Dufour; l'homme rhinocéros". "Le dialogue des rhinocéros". 20...
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    to make access to the garden easier. The creation of the place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde) created a grand vestibule to the garden, though entrance...
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    Royal Menagerie of Versailles (category Louis XV)
    menagerie to the National Museum of Natural History, where Louis XV's preserved rhinoceros is kept. The menagerie no longer exists, although a few traces...
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    French). 1: 278. Gabory 1926, p. 32. de Bueil, Jean (1887). Le Jouvencel (in French). Paris: Librairie Renouard. pp. xv–xvii. Cazacu 2005, p. 79. Termeau...
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    restorations and renovations included Marie Antoinette's dressing room, Louis XV's children's play room, and a staircase which began construction in 1722...
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    collection of preserved animals includes the rhinoceros brought to France in the 18th century by Louis XV. Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology In front of...
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    also commissioned to produce a buffet for Louis XV (exhibited in the Salon of 1743), that went to the château de Choisy, the King's favoured hunting residence...
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    Timeline of Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    months to the Tuileries Palace. 20 June – Statue of Louis XV dedicated in the Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde). 1764 3 April – First stone laid of...
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    Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is remembered for. He worked on it for some 50 years, initially at Montbard in his office in the Tour Saint-Louis, then in...
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    last for use by royal servants for supplying game to the royal table. Louis XV (1710–1774) was King of France from 1715 to 1774. To the King hunting was...
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    a parade of full-size African mammals, including a rhinoceros originally presented to King Louis XV in the 18th century. On the garden side is another...
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    baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) (b. 1939) April 30 Ralph Boston, 83, long jumper, Olympic champion (1960) (b. 1939) Havre de Grace, 15, Thoroughbred...
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    Vincent van Gogh (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The Letters". McQuillan (1989), 19. Pomerans (1997), xv. Rewald (1986), 248. Pomerans (1997), ix, xv. Pomerans (1997), ix. Pickvance (1986), 129; Tralbaut...
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    Biotechnology: Towards the Sustainability of the 'Tree of Life'. Springer Cham. pp. xv+282. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44988-9. ISBN 978-3-030-44987-2. S2CID 220051653...
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  • Gombrowicz – The Marriage (Ślub, first performance) Eugène Ionesco – Rhinocéros Ira Levin – Critic's Choice Stephen Lewis and Theatre Workshop – Sparrers...
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  • may be reckoned among the delicacies of a king's table; so likewise Gen., xv, 11 and Is., xviii, 6, where it means birds of prey in general. In this latter...
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    Tiger (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    S.; Jackson, P. "Preface" in Seidensticker, Christie & Jackson 1999, pp. xv–xx Temminck, C. J. (1844). "Aperçu général et spécifique sur les Mammifères...
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    Fritz (March 1910). "Will Roosevelt Return Alive?". The Travel Magazine. XV (6): 271–274. OCLC 1779338. Duquesne, Captain Fritz (31 August 1910). "Immigrants...
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  • – Fantomex, Huntsman, and Ultimaton (Weapon XIII, Weapon XII, and Weapon XV), passing through Nuke, Wolverine, and Deadpool, the latter two originating...
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    p. 25; Fortenberry 2017, p. 273. Bailey 2012, p. 407. de Martin, Henry (1925). Le Style Louis XV (in French). Flammarion. p. 13. Rogers, Gumuchdjian &...
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    Henry the Lion (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    depicted on a column on Charles Bridge in Prague. The book The Pope's Rhinoceros (1996) by Lawrence Norfolk opens with an allegory of a planned ransack...
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    Continuing Evolution of Biological Nomenclature. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press. pp. xv + 209. ISBN 978-1-003-09282-7. Zeilik, Michael (2002). Astronomy: The Evolving...
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    Hunting (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Fourth Council of the Lateran, held under Pope Innocent III, decreed (canon xv): "We interdict hunting or hawking to all clerics." The decree of the Council...
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    History of Nigeria (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (1981). "Man and a Lake". Publications de la Société française d'histoire des outre-mers. 5 (1): 161–178. Champion, Louis; et al. (15 December 2022). "A question...
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    elements of the Baroque artistic movement in general, as can be seen when Louis XIV said, "I am grandeur incarnate"; many Baroque artists served kings who...
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    ISBN 0-415-31943-9, p. 49 Jean-Louis Voisin, "Les Romains, chasseurs de têtes". In: Du châtiment dans la cité. Supplices corporels et peine de mort dans le monde...
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  • black rhinoceros who is a tyrannical king of Rhino Land, taking the war against King Babar of the Elephant Country, in the Babar book series by Jean de Brunhoff...
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