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    Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amadeo Maria; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796) was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 20 February 1773...
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    company of his mistress, the actress Marie Antier. Victor Amadeus' children were: Joseph Victor Amédée (1716 – 1716) Anne Thérèse of Savoy (1717–1745),...
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  • Vigevano from Livorno, a producer of sealing wax. On 27 August 1787, Victor-Amédée III proclaimed an edict of tolerance, allowing the Jews to benefit from...
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    kept in the National Library of the University of Turin. Éloge de Victor-Amédée III (Chambéry, 1775) Lettres d'un royaliste savoisien à ses compatriotes...
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  • 1:2400 cadastre designed to improve tax collection. His successor, Victor-Amédée III of Sardinia, allowed Savoyard communities to buy back part of their...
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    Victor Amadeus II (Vittorio Amedeo Francesco; 14 May 1666 – 31 October 1732) was the head of the House of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 12...
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    or the Invalides. The bridge was built by the engineers Jean Résal and Amédée Alby [fr]. It was inaugurated in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle (universal...
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  • Amadeus Mozart. Borrowings include the female form, "Amadea", the French "Amédée" (male), the Spanish "Amadeo", the Catalan and Portuguese "Amadeu", the...
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    Charles Amadeus of Savoy (French: Charles-Amédée de Savoie, French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl amede də savwa]), Duke of Nemours (12 April 1624 – 30 July 1652)...
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    painted by Ingres Daisy Fellowes (1890–1962), style icon and married to Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie, prince de Broglie (1886-1918) Jean de Broglie...
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  • soldier and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre (b. 1838) 1889 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (b. 1808) 1895 – Carl Ludwig...
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    month, princesse Christine Henriette de Hesse Rheinfels, wife of Louis Victor Amédée de Savoie, Prince de Carignan, died in this city [Turin], after a lingering...
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    last members of the family de Besenval who were entitled to inherit. With Amédée de Besenval (1862–1927), the main line of the family died out in 1927. However...
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    work by sculptors Paul Gasq, Camille Lefèvre, Alfred Boucher, Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier and Raoul Verlet. A monumental bronze quadriga by Georges Récipon...
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    Pierre 1735 – No record 1736 – Noël Hallé 1737 – Fournier 1738 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo 1739 – Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain 1740 – No record 1741 –...
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    François Christophe Kellermann Jean Victor Moreau Louis-Alexandre Berthier Pierre Augereau Louis-Gabriel Suchet Amédée Laharpe † Thomas-Alexandre Dumas...
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    Steinway's Piano at the Paris Exposition. After a lithograph by "Cham", Amédée de Noé. From: Harper's Weekly, issue August 10, 1867, reporting on the 1867...
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  • Rockaway and the matrix number "S4RM". According to the "RCA Victor Master Serial Number Codes (III. 1963 - 1990's)", the "S" stands for a pressing year of...
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    division (detached from III Cavalry Corps) and IV Cavalry Corps. Between 17 and 19 June 1815, in command of the Right Wing: III Corps (minus the Domon's...
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    Amédée Willot, Count of Gramprez, (31 August 1755 – 17 December 1823) held several military commands during the French Revolutionary Wars but his association...
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    at the Castle of Rivoli for trying to reclaim the throne. In 1786, Victor Amadeus III enlarged it, adding a Royal Wing. Under Napoleon Bonaparte, the Aile...
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    member of the royal House of Savoy and cousin of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III. He is known for his Arctic explorations and for his mountaineering...
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    "Durand, Amédée". Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. I. London: Spink & Son Ltd. p. 668. Forrer, L. (1923). "Lemaire, Durand, Amédée Pierre"....
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    division Duc d'Aumale. – Paris : Librairie du Moniteur Universel, 1873 Amédée Le Faure: Procès du Maréchal Bazaine. Rapport. Audiences du premier conseil...
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    killing one person and wounding twenty-three. 15 March – The anarchist Amédée Pauwels explodes a bomb in the church of La Madeleine. One person, the bomber...
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    Guillouard (born 1965), CEO of RATP Group, state-owned public transport operator Amédée de Vallombrosa (1880–1968), classical organist Gérard Philipe (1922–1959)...
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  • theorem, other mathematicians have published different proofs, including Victor-Amédée Lebesgue, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Leonard Eugene Dickson, John Knopfmacher...
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    the age of 11. This election followed the death of Amedée de Talaru and the renunciation of John III of Bourbon, illegitimate offspring of his grandfather...
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    Log No Henry Kissinger Mandalay No Joe Knowland No Joseph R. Knowland No Victor H. Krulak Owl's Nest No Lucien Labaudt No James B. Lankershim No Roger Lapham...
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    French pavilion was that of the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau, directed by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier. They had founded the Purist movement 1918, with...
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