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    Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay...
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    Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (27 May 1809 – 28 May 1884), was a French politician and historian. He was born in Paris. His grandfather...
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    sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de Saint-André of the Comte de Provence's Carbine Regiment on 14 January 1757, and again promoted...
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    Lord Byron and George Anson Byron, admiral and explorer, who were the 6th and 7th Baron Byron, respectively. Byron was the second son of William Byron, 4th...
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    throughout her life." Comte's disciple Frederic Harrison wrote about de Staël that her novels "precede the works of Walter Scott, Byron, Mary Shelley, and...
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    the line commanded by Comte de Grasse, he took advantage of the temporary absence of his British opponent, Admiral John Byron, to take action against...
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    by Admiral John Byron (the grandfather of Lord Byron) had sailed in an attempt to relieve Grenada, which the French forces of the Comte D'Estaing had just...
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    de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de...
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    also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut. Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte was born in Paris, France, on...
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    the party on their tour through Italy. In the spring of 1823, he met Lord Byron at Genoa, and the published correspondence of the poet at this period contains...
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    ISBN 978-1551112558 – via Google Books. Peattie, Antony (2019). The Private Life of Lord Byron. Unbound Publishing. ISBN 978-1783524273 – via Google Books. Sir Walter...
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    France would be detrimental to that cause. When war broke out in 1775, the Comte de Vergennes, then the Foreign Minister, outlined a series of proposals that...
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  • by the early Utopian socialist, Henri de Saint-Simon, who was at one time Comte's teacher and mentor. Both Comte and Marx intended to develop, scientifically...
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    forces re-embarked when word arrived that a British fleet under Admiral John Byron was approaching. The two fleets battled the next day. The French severely...
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    Commodore Byron (1764), Captain Cook (both voyages), Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander (1769), Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1763–1764), Louis de Bougainville...
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    Voltaire's views influenced Godwin, Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Byron and Shelley. Macaulay made note of the fear that Voltaire's very name incited...
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  • as la dame de Pique Jean-Claude Binoche as le comte de Cerisy Thomas Hardy as le valet de Mareuil Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand as le valet de Rigny Eric Bouhier...
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    Malmesbury Dowager Lady de Ros 1889, pp. 40, 43. Dowager Lady de Ros 1889, p. 39. Fraser 1902, pp. 304–310. Fraser 1902, pp. 270–273. Lord Byron, Childe Harold's...
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    Romance: Francisco de Miranda and Lord Byron." European Romantic Review 27.2 (2016) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Francisco de Miranda. Colombeia...
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    Reflections Portraits From the Prose and Verse of Lord Byron (1961) Selected Essays of Henry de Montherlant (1961) editor, with John Weightman, translator...
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    narrow corridor through the Val de Chézery. This still allowed Spanish troops to cross from Lombardy to Franche Comté without going through France, but...
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  • Dessert: king cake, cherries, café brûlot, praline Contestants: Byron Bradley, Chef de Cuisine from New Orleans, LA (eliminated after the appetizer) Brandon...
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  • William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1768-1835) George, 6th Baron Byron (a.k.a. Lord Byron) (1788-1824) Robert King, 4th Earl of Kingston (1796-1867) Henry...
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    Gabriel Matzneff (category Prix Renaudot de l'essai winners)
    ISBN 2-234-00771-2, BnF 345867642 La Diététique de lord Byron [The Dietetics of Lord Byron] (in French), Paris: éditions de la Table ronde, 1984, p. 215, ISBN 2-7103-0185-7...
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    Vice-Admiral Comte François Joseph Paul de Grasse from the West Indies. British Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, who had been tracking de Grasse around...
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  • Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love Lord Byron – Don Juan Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism Michael Faraday –...
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  • Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron claimed descent from Annabella through his mother Catherine, daughter of George Gordon, 12th Lord of Gight. Byron wrote:...
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    Jeanne had married an officer of the gendarmes, Nicholas de la Motte, the self-proclaimed "Comte de la Motte". She was living on a small pension that had...
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    Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də ʁiɲi]; 2 February 1782 – 6 November 1835) was the commander of the French squadron...
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    Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti...
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