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    Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 1745 – 9 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier. Moreover he demonstrated...
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    la Concorde and 258, rue de Rivoli. It ends at 271, rue Saint-Honoré, where it is extended by rue du Chevalier-de-Saint-George. The even-numbered side...
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    The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, also known as the Machine infernale plot, was an assassination attempt on the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte...
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    have their main store in 8th arrondissement, Avenue Montaigne or Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, both in the Champs-Élysées Avenue shopping district. As...
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  • Paris, France. "10 rue Caumartin" by Lionel Hampton "118 Bd Brune" by Algemona Group, Robin Kenyatta "14 Juillet (Rendez-vous de Paname)" by Patachou...
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    January 1535 at the crossroads of la Croix du Trahoir (the intersection of the Rue de l'Arbre-Sec and the Rue Saint-Honoré), in front of the Pavillon des singes...
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    and several ancient, dark and narrow streets, rue de l'Arche-Marion, rue du Chevalier-le-Guet and rue des Mauvaises-Paroles, disappeared from the map...
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    through Rue Saint Florentin, then Rue du Chevalier-de-Saint-George and finally Rue Duphot before reaching Madeleine, named after the Église de la Madeleine...
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  • Place du Châtelet - once the site of the Grand Châtelet Rue du Chevalier-de-Saint-George - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1739-1799), musician Rue Clémence-Royer...
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    Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒozɛf də mɔ̃kalm ɡʁozɔ̃]; 28 February 1712 – 14 September...
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    48.852496°N 2.338811°E / 48.852496; 2.338811 The Café Procope in the Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie is a café in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The original...
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    owner, Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt. The premises are at 142 Rue de Grenelle in the district of Faubourg Saint-Germain in the 7th arrondissement...
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    and 1914, he attended the Institut Saint-André, run by the Christian Brothers. In 1911, the Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, where they took in lodgers...
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    Saint-Ex, a 1997 British biopic Saint-Exupéry was born at No. 8 rue Peyrat, later rue Alphonse Fochier, and still later renamed rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...
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    straight roads. To the north, these are the route de Genas, Villeurbanne; to the east, boulevard Pinel and rue du Vinatier, Bron; to the south, avenue Lacassagne...
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    bɛʁ.ʒɛʁ]) is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera...
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    Avenue de la Porte d'Orléans and Rue de la Légion Étrangère, and near the Square du Serment-de-Koufra. Two streets in Paris are named for him: Avenue du Général...
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    was born the following year. They lived in an apartment at rue des Deux-Ponts on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris for many years, before his lung illness forced...
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    the Pigalle stop of the Paris Métro. Georges Ulmer wrote Pigalle in 1946, and performed it himself. Maurice Chevalier wrote a song entitled "Place Pigalle"...
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    Rue du Pré-de-la-Bataille is a public thoroughfare in the French commune of Rouen. Located in the western part of the city, it belongs to the Pasteur-Madeleine...
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    boulevard de Ménilmontant / Cimetière du Père Lachaise Place Maurice Chevalier Rue Piat, face au square 4th arrondissement Place Louis Lepine Quai de la Corse...
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    No. 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson, the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Marie Adélaïde Julienne Allotte de La Fuÿe (born Guillochet de La Perrière)...
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    Leslie Caron (category Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    2009. ISBN 978-0-6700-2134-5 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by President François Mitterrand in June 1993 Ordre National du Mérite, by Catherine Trautmann...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    137 Rue du Faubourg du Hem The church of Saint-Germain-l'Écossais [fr], Rue Pingre The church of Sacré-Cœur, Rue de Mareuil The church of Saint-Jacques...
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    foundation, the museum has been housed in the deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, in the Rue Réaumur [fr] in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Today the...
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    Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette...
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    of Troyes of 1420. La Descente du Saint-Esprit; illustration depicting Notre-Dame from the Hours of Étienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet, c. 1450 A Te Deum...
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    H. Tonka, C. de Portzamparc (Paris, Champ Vallon, 1986) Rue des Hautes Formes, C. de Portzamparc (Paris, Régie immobilière de la ville de Paris, RIVP,...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    pp 42 Du Fresne de Beaucourt, G., Histoire de Charles VII, Tome I: Le Dauphin (1403–1422), Librairie de la Société bibliographiqque, 35 Rue de Grenelle...
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    at Porte Saint-Honoré in the west, via the rue Saint Antoine, rue des Balais, rue Roi-de-Sicilie, rue de la Verrerie, rue des Lombards, rue de la Ferronnerie...
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