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    Jean-Gilbert Victor Fialin, Duc de Persigny (11 January 1808 – 12 January 1872) was a statesman of the Second French Empire. Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse...
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    1855-1865. CUP Archive. p. 270. ISBN 9780521400459. Laetitia de Witt, Le prince Victor Napoléon 1862-1926, Fayard, Paris, 2007, p. 9. Barjot, Jean-Pierre...
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    Jean Victor Duruy (10 September 1811 – 25 November 1894) was a French historian and statesman. Duruy was born in Paris, the son of a factory worker, and...
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    (April 2015). De verklaring van Parijs en Neutraliteit - Nederland en de ontwikkeling van het Internationaal Maritieme recht van 1856 tot de Eerste Wereldoorlog...
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    June 2020. Hugo, Victor (17 October 1854). "Saint Arnaud". Les Châtiments (in French). Godfrey, Sima (2 February 2016). "La Guerre de Crimée n'aura pas...
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    has living descendants. De Morny was influential in the early career of Sarah Bernhardt, who played for Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo. In her autobiography...
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    and sought a more effective manager. His minister of the interior, Victor de Persigny, interviewed several candidates, and selected Georges-Eugène Haussmann...
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    Georges-Eugène Haussmann (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
    Paris reconstruction program. The emperor's minister of the interior, Victor de Persigny, interviewed the prefects of Rouen, Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
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    Eugène Rouher (category Members of Parliament for Puy-de-Dôme)
    1884) was a French statesman of the Second Empire. He was born at Riom (Puy-de-Dôme), where he practised law after taking his degree in Paris in 1835. In...
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    confidence was crystallized in Napoleon III's visit to James de Rothschild at the latter's Château de Ferrières on 18 December 1862, which Fould orchestrated...
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    Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (pronounced [edwaːʁ dʁuɛ̃ də‿lɥis]; 19 November 1805 – 1 March 1881) was a French diplomat. Born in Paris, he was educated at the...
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  • year. Victor Lefranc Victor de Persigny Adolphe Billault Camillo Cavour Luigi Lablache Eugène Chevandier de Valdrome [fr] Patrice de Mac Mahon Duc de Morny...
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    Édouard Antoine de Thouvenel (11 November 1818, Verdun, Meuse – 18 October 1866) was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1855 to 1860, and French Minister...
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    Charlemagne Émile de Maupas (8 December 1818 – 19 June 1888) was a French lawyer and politician who was head of the Parisian Police during the critical...
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    Charles Jean Marie Félix, Marquis de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat. Charles de La Valette was Minister of the...
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    Interior Victor de Persigny Adolphe Billault Charles-Marie-Esprit Espinasse Claude Alphonse Delangle Ernest Arrighi de Casanova Adolphe Billault Victor de Persigny...
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    Interior Victor de Persigny Adolphe Billault Charles-Marie-Esprit Espinasse Claude Alphonse Delangle Ernest Arrighi de Casanova Adolphe Billault Victor de Persigny...
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    building of the Parisian fortifications in 1845 under the command of Dode de la Brunerie. In 1849, Vaillant was given command of the engineers in the French...
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    of the storming parties, and his conduct gained for him the rank of chef de bataillon in 1837. Niel was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1840 and to...
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    Gustave Rouland (category Governors of the Banque de France)
    was later President of the Conseil d'Etat and then governor of the Banque de France from 1864 to 1878, with one short interruption. Gustave Rouland was...
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    Interior Victor de Persigny Adolphe Billault Charles-Marie-Esprit Espinasse Claude Alphonse Delangle Ernest Arrighi de Casanova Adolphe Billault Victor de Persigny...
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    Interior Victor de Persigny Adolphe Billault Charles-Marie-Esprit Espinasse Claude Alphonse Delangle Ernest Arrighi de Casanova Adolphe Billault Victor de Persigny...
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    The Société de Géographie (French: [sɔsjete də ʒeɔgʁafi]; lit. '"Geography Society"'), is the world's oldest geographical society. It was founded in 1821...
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    legislature. In this role, on 1 December 1852 Billault went to the Château de Saint-Cloud to bring the results of a plebiscite which had voted in favor...
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    and politician. Hippolyte Fortoul was born on 4 August 1811 in Digne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France as the son of an attorney who began a prefectural career...
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    replacing Victor de Persigny. His administration was uneventful, somewhat liberal towards the press. On 28 March 1865 he was replaced by Charles de La Valette...
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    Désiré-Marie-René-François de Moustier (23 August 1817 – 5 February 1869) was a French diplomat and politician. Lionel Désiré-Marie-René-François, Marquis de Moustier was...
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    Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette (8 April 1820 – 15 August 1874) was a French politician. La Roquette was born in Paris, the half-brother of the Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud...
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    Biographies Bonapartistes (in French). Librairie et Agence de l'Imprimerie Universelle de Jersey. p. 194. Retrieved 4 February 2024. Young, Archibald...
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    Adolphe Vuitry (category Governors of the Banque de France)
    became recognized as an expert on finance. He was governor of the Banque de France from 1863 to 1864, then Minister-President of the Conseil d'Etat (Council...
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