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    The Château de Rastignac is a neoclassical style country house located in La Bachellerie, near Bordeaux in the Dordogne in France. It was built between...
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    suggested a link between Hoban's design for the South Portico and Château de Rastignac, a neoclassical country house in La Bachellerie in the Dordogne region...
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    and others. It has been speculated that he was inspired by the Château de Rastignac in south-west France—the plans of which he saw during his ambassadorship—to...
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    Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France. She also spent time at the Château de Rastignac with the Lauwick family. At the request of theater director Henri Varna...
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    Chapt de Rastignac (b. Paris, 1798 – Paris, 19 December 1875). Alfred de La Rochefoucauld, duc de La Roche-Guyon, second son of François XIV de La Rochefoucauld...
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    Ireland. The southern portico, for example, was inspired by the Château de Rastignac in France. Both the White House and Capitol were completed in November...
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    children were: François XIV de La Rochefoucauld (1794–1874), 10th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, who married Zénaide Chapt de Rastignac, a daughter of Pierre Jean...
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    paintings to the Château de Rastignac in Dordogne for safekeeping. On March 30, 1944, fleeing Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) forces set fire to the château, after five...
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    paintings that were in their collection and brought them to the Château de Rastignac belonging to family friends in Dordogne for safekeeping. In 1941...
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    of Rastignac. His paternal grandparents were Anne-Sabine-Rosalie de Chauvelin (a daughter of Germain Louis de Chauvelin) and Brig. Jean-François de La...
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    Commerce and Industry of the Lot. Château de Caïx Château dof Luzech or Tour of Luzech. Tour de l'ancien château de Luzech was classified as an ancient...
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  • Rastignac de Balzac". ("In this character, Radiguet condemns the model of the entrepreneur given by the character of Eugène de Rastignac in Honoré de...
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    Jean Julie Chapt, Marquis of Rastignac. His maternal grandparents were the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Mathieu de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency-Laval...
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    literary critic Kornelije Kvas, "Balzac's use of the same characters (Rastignac, Vautrin) in different parts of The Human Comedy is a consequence of the...
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  • high-society, Nancy Mitford called him "La Pompadour de nos jours." Redé was described as "the Eugène de Rastignac of modern Paris" by Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon...
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    Château de Montmirail, Montmirail, Marne, on 2 June 1841, aged 76. Through his daughter Françoise, he was a grandfather of Zénaïde Chapt de Rastignac...
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    Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (26 July 1703 – 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin...
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    Le Lys dans la vallée (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    his novel he also mentions the château Azay-le-Rideau, in the Loire Valley, which can still be visited today. Henriette de Mortsauf was modelled on Balzac's...
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    Louis Lambert (novel) (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    students take a trip to the nearby Château de Rochambeau, for example, Lambert, who has never visited the château, nevertheless recalls vivid memories...
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    Cousin Bette (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    the case with Vautrin, the criminal mastermind who tutors young Eugene de Rastignac in Balzac's 1835 novel Le Père Goriot. When he resurfaces in La Cousine...
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    (Editions de Paris) sous le nom de Michel Férou 1956 Lettre à un jeune Rastignac, libelle (Fasquelle) 1956 Les Trompeuses Espérances (Plon) 1958 Les Gens de la...
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  • division) Antoine Chapt de Rastignac (général de brigade) René-Bernard Chapuy (général de brigade) Louis Charbonnier (général de division) Joseph Claude...
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    Le Message (category Short stories by Honoré de Balzac)
    them to her. The narrator does as he is told, and goes to the château of Count and Countess de Montpersan outside Moulins to return the letters. There he...
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    literature as the model for Eugène de Rastignac, one of the main characters in the La Comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac. The character appears in twenty-eight...
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    Priory, also known as Château du Louroux, is located in the commune of Louroux in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire region. It was...
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    France. Prelate : Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac, archbishop of Tours. Knights : Nicolas-Joseph-Balthasar de Langlade, vicomte du Chayla, lieutenant...
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    Une ténébreuse affaire (category Novels by Honoré de Balzac)
    on a real incident, the kidnapping of Dominique Clément de Ris [fr] in 1800, from his chateau in Beauvais in Touraine. He was a senator who was involved...
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    La Grande Bretèche (category Short stories by Honoré de Balzac)
    Pouctal, produced by Pathé Frères. 1913 : Le Chateau de la Breteche, Opera, based on the story by Honoré de Balzac, by Albert Dupuis, published in 1913...
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    La Bachellerie Commune Chateau of Rastignac Location of La Bachellerie La Bachellerie Show map of France La Bachellerie Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
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