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    The Canon obusier de 12 (officially the "Canon obusier de campagne de 12 livres, modèle 1853"), also known as the "Canon de l’Empereur" ("emperor's cannon")...
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    The 8-pounder long gun was a light calibre piece of artillery mounted on French warships of the Age of Sail. It fired a projectile of eight livres in weight...
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    The Canon de 8 Gribeauval or 8-pounder was a French cannon and part of the Gribeauval system developed by Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval. The Old...
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    French field artillery; the others were the light Canon de 4 Gribeauval and the medium Canon de 8 Gribeauval. Superseding the previous Vallière system...
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    the French field artillery; the others were the medium Canon de 8 Gribeauval and the heavy Canon de 12 Gribeauval. The Gribeauval system was introduced in...
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    The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western hemisphere...
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    2020 Graesse, J.G.T., Trésor des livres rares et précieux, Volume 6, pt. 1, pg 193, 1859. Thurston, Herbert. "Alan de Rupe and his Indulgence", The Month...
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  • 1542 and died 1594" Sacerdote, Gustave (1896). "Deux index expurgatoires de livres hebreux". Revue des Études Juives. 30: 264. Lasagna, Paola (2008). "MARINI...
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  • Tours, he received 7 livres Tournois, 14 sols, and 11 denarii. At Easter 1296 the Archbishop of Rouen's dues brought him 20 livres Tournois, 14 sols and...
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  • The 100 Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, regardless of language...
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    que la France est armée : à l'usine Caesar à Bourges, on est fier de voir le canon livré à l'Ukraine" [This shows that France is armed: In the Caesar factory...
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  • Deuterocanonical books (category Development of the Christian biblical canon)
    translation". Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice (2000). "Les livres d'Esdras et leur numérotation dans l'histoire du canon de la Bible latin". Revue Bénédictine. 110 (1–2):...
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    Adriaan (1651). "Tables de sinus, tangentes, secantes et de logarithmes des sinus, tangentes ... - Adriaan Vlacq - Google Livres". Retrieved 15 April 2016...
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    version, French) Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, (Livres I–VI), 1715. (French version) Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, (Livres VII–IX), 1724. (French...
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    droit canon dans le Quart Livre" [Decretals and canon law in the Quart Livr]. Langue et sens du Quart Livre [Language and meaning of the Quart Livre] (in...
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  • les chrétiens. Le canon hébraïque ne reconnaît que les 39 livres de l'"Ancien" Testament. Le canon catholique reconnaît 45 livres dans l'"Ancien" Testament...
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    XIV in 1665. Madame de Sévigné wrote that its construction employed 1,200 workers and the cost was no less than 2 million "livres". The royal gardener...
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    range. Canon de 12 Gribeauval – 12-pounder cannon Canon de 8 Gribeauval – 8-pounder cannon Canon de 4 Gribeauval – 4-pounder cannon Obusier de 6 pouces...
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  • translation". Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice (2000). "Les livres d'Esdras et leur numérotation dans l'histoire du canon de la Bible latin". Revue Bénédictine. 110 (1–2):...
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    p. 464. "Ukraine : la France dresse le bilan des équipements militaires livrés". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-04. "La seconde vie des TRF1 français...
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    the artist, who asked for the princely sum of 12,500 livres for all five canvases, or 2,500 livres each. However, the diocese did not have sufficient financial...
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    littéral sur tous les livres de l'ancien et du nouveau testament by Antoine Augustin Calmet, page 338. Pierre Emery. 1712. Les Livres Saints et La Critique...
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    his blindness. The book is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons and the Dead Sea Scrolls, but not in the Jewish Masoretic text. Protestant...
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    his successor, the marquis de l'Hôpital. D'Éon returned to France in October 1760, and was granted a pension of 2,000 livres as reward for service in Russia...
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    Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines (The Book of Holy Medicines) is a fourteenth-century devotional treatise written by Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster...
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    rather than the livre (French pound) as previously. Hence the Canon de campagne de 4 La Hitte fired a shell weighing nearly 4 kg (8.8 lb). The La Hitte...
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    came to the attention of King Louis XV, who awarded 300 livres to Portefaix and another 350 livres to be shared among his companions. The king also rewarded...
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     184. Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice (2000). "Les livres d'Esdras et leur numérotation dans l'histoire du canon de la Bible latin". Revue Bénédictine. 1o5 (1–2):...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    one of the most popular and frequently-performed operas in the classical canon. Among the Impressionist composers who created new works for piano, orchestra...
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    and ordered Sade to pay 100 livres in alms for prisoners. Sade was returned to Pierre-Encize prison under the lettre de cachet. On 16 November, the king...
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