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    response to a series of terrorist attacks in the country. The raising of a "Bourgeois Guard" ("garde bourgeoise") for Paris was discussed by the National Assembly...
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  • He spent his childhood in a bourgeois Catholic family, between an apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine on boulevard Commandant-Charcot, which overlooks the...
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  • camp by providing sexual favors to the female commandant (Stoler). His plan succeeds, but the commandant puts Pasqualino in charge of his barracks as a...
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  • Auguste, baron Duperré, Commandant of the Naval Division of the Western Coasts of Africa 1870 to 1872 Siméon Bourgeois, Commandant of the Naval Division...
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    13 July, the electors of Paris met and agreed to the recruitment of a "bourgeois militia" of 48,000 men from the sixty voting districts of Paris, to restore...
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    major. After the death of d'Aulnay in 1650, Doucet assumed the role of commandant serving at the French fort of Port-Royal (now Annapolis Royal). However...
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  • further inland include Mount Blowaway, DeRemer Nunataks, Exiles Nunataks, Bourgeois Nunataks, Schmidt Nunataks and Marcoux Nunatak. Coastal features between...
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    part of the programme of revolutionary Social-Democracy, because in a bourgeois republic the Constituent Assembly represents the highest form of democracy'...
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    sister military band, the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps ("The Commandant's Own") and the 10 active duty Marine Corps field bands. The Marine Band...
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  • (1845–1937), Catholic Saint André Béguin (1927–2021), Swiss war criminal and commandant of the World War II Wauwilermoos internment camp André Benjamin, also...
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  • The Spirit Of Liberty ("The President's Own" United States Marine Band/Bourgeois) Composed for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. 1986 Liberty...
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    Arias, Charles Tordjman, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Gildas Bourdet, and Anne Bourgeois. He is also the author of plays including The Touch Hardware and hip (1997)...
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    his brothers. After Gavroche's death, they retrieve bread tossed by a bourgeois man to geese in a fountain at the Luxembourg Garden. Zéphine – A young...
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    Guard and the Commandant of the Hospital, Stefan Basov, who justified the murder on the grounds that there would be 'two less bourgeois mouths to feed'...
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    ignored repeated warnings from the commandant, Yakov Yurovsky, not to stand too close to the open window. The guard commandant and his senior aides had complete...
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  • metalwork objects. commandant commanding officer of a base, depot or training area. In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in the...
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    father in 1750, he became the duc d'Aiguillon. In 1753, he was appointed commandant (governor) of Brittany and soon became unpopular in that province, which...
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    better enforcer of the Three Principles of the People compared to the bourgeois Kuomintang and that the new three principles are about allying with the...
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  • It had been President Thomas Jefferson who in 1803 suggested to then-Commandant of the Marine Corps William Ward Burrows that Italian musicians be enlisted...
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    royal decree of King Saint Louis of France created the so-called guet bourgeois ("burgess watch"), allowing the residents of Paris to establish their...
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    while collecting bullets from dead National Guardsmen. Book 2: A Grand Bourgeois Magnon – Former servant of M. Gillenormand and friend of the Thénardiers...
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  • Jean-Claude Brialy TV movie Susi Anna Michael Pfleghar TV mini-series 1982 Le bourgeois gentilhomme Nicole Roger Coggio Messieurs les jurés Pascale Baudières...
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    immediate response to the two attacks, Chekists killed approximately 1,300 "bourgeois hostages" held in Petrograd and Kronstadt prisons. Bolshevik newspapers...
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    brigade) against the south and west of La Haye Sainte, while the other (Bourgeois') was to attack the eastern side of the same post. The divisions were...
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    “walking bull-ring” and was supervised by the Commandant’s office. There was no appeal from the Commandant’s determination that an infraction had occurred...
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    Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. 1892. Alaric Jacob, Scenes from a Bourgeois Life, Secker & Warburg 1949. Major John Jacob, 'Remarks on the Native...
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    descended from Charlotte Corday. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, Rue de Lisbonne, near Place de l'Europe and Parc...
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    the earlier disasters in 1870, he was appointed by the emperor first commandant of the troops of Châlons camp, and soon afterwards (17 August) governor...
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    Nikandr Chibisov (category Commandants of the Frunze Military Academy)
    listed as Chibizov in Imperial army records and his social status as petty bourgeois from Tsaritsynsky Uyezd of Saratov Governorate, but in his Red Army records...
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    had sworn that he would never return to the École de Guerre except as commandant, but at Pétain's invitation, and introduced to the stage by his patron...
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