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    The Canon de 24 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions...
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  • The Canon de 4 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667-1759), Director-General of the Battalions...
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  • The Canon de 12 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions and...
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    Armies. In 1726, de Vallière became Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery. Vallière was a member of the Académie de Marine. After...
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    King Louis XIV. La Vallière and her brother were raised at the family seat, the Castle of La Vallière. Their uncle, Gilles de La Vallière (born 1616) was...
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    artillery; the others were the light Canon de 4 Gribeauval and the medium Canon de 8 Gribeauval. Superseding the previous Vallière system, the Gribeauval system...
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    artillery; the others were the light Canon de 4 Gribeauval and the heavy Canon de 12 Gribeauval. Replacing the older Vallière system, the Gribeauval system was...
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    guns without sacrificing range. His Gribeauval system superseded the de Vallière system. These guns proved essential to French military victories during...
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    the weight of the Vallière guns of the same caliber, without sacrificing range. Canon de 12 Gribeauval – 12-pounder cannon Canon de 8 Gribeauval – 8-pounder...
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    The Canon de 4 Gribeauval or 4-pounder was a French cannon and part of the artillery system developed by Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. The Old...
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    howitzer, the light Canon de 4 Gribeauval, medium Canon de 8 Gribeauval and the heavy Canon de 12 Gribeauval. Superseding the older Vallière system, the Gribeauval...
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  • century 121 Canon de 12 livres Le Solide  Kingdom of France 1688 121 Canon de 12 de Vallière  Kingdom of France 1732 121 Canon obusier de 12  France 1853...
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  • 1732 Florent-Jean de Vallière standardized French artillery ordnance (barrels) into five calibers. The lightest piece was the Vallière 4-pounder and the...
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    only child of the prominent magistrate, Melchior de Sionnaz, Seigneur de Vallières, de la Thuile, and de Boisy. This being one of the noblest families in...
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    St. John of the Cross OCD (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz; Latin: Ioannes a Cruce; born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish...
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    Teresa of Ávila, OCD (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite...
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    Catholic Church (by Pope Francis in 2015). Louis had tried to become a canon regular, wanting to enter the Great St Bernard Hospice, but had been refused...
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    ISBN 0-631-23203-6. "Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches, Title 2". intratext.com. 1992. "CCEO, Canons 55–150" Archived 24 February 2021 at the Wayback...
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    significant sympathiser within the society, in the form of Maurice Revaz, a canon of the Swiss Abbey of Grand-Saint-Bernard who was teaching at the International...
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    Sister Lúcia he would waive the five-year waiting period established by canon law before opening a cause for beatification. On 13 February 2017, Sister...
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    text: Mme Deshoulières, Isabelle de Montmorency-Bouteville, Christine-Wilhelmine de Hesse-Hombourg, or Louise de La Vallière, favourite of Louis XIV. The...
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    1668–1677 : Gilles de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière 1677–1717 : Jean-François de Beauvau du Rivau 1717–1723 : Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan 1723–1746 :...
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    Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (category Canons (priests))
    Exposition de la doctrine de l'église catholique sur les matières de controverse (1671) Sermon pour la Profession de Mademoiselle de La Vallière (1675) Traité...
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  • a work perfectly in harmony with the canons of the Belle Époque, at the 1912 Salon he exhibited Les femmes de Sparte à Aeglia, an ambitious history painting...
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    inventions revolutionized cannon-making and became a key component of the de Vallière system and contributed to the development of the later Gribeauval system...
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    Reynaldo Hahn (category Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris)
    premiered at the Opéra-Comique. Emma Calvé played the main role of Louise de La Vallière, Messager was once again the conductor, and the piece was lavishly mounted...
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    priory there. However, in 1786 the inhabitants bought their freedom from the canons of Sallanches, to whom the priory had been transferred in 1519.[citation...
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    perspective of the Marne Valley. In 1739, it became the property of the duc de La Vallière, who had the garden modified by Garnier d'Isle. During the French Revolution...
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    called the Carmelite Rite, is the liturgical rite that was used by the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, Hospitallers, Templars, Carmelites and the...
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    des évêques constitutionnels de France, de 1791 a 1801 (in French). Paris: chez Méquignon-Havard. 1827. p. 32. Vallière, Laurent (ed.) (2008): Fasti Ecclesiae...
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