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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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (French pronunciation: [lwi də bɥad kɔ̃t də fʁɔ̃tənak e də palɥo]; 22 May 1622 – 28 November 1698) was...
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making up the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté used to belong to the former provinces of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, but it also includes a significant part...
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partisans of the comte de Chambord and of the Orléans princes, divided on the vexed question of the flag. He suggested that the comte de Chambord might...
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Henri, Count of Chambord (redirect from Comte de Chambord)
(French: Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord; 29 September 1820 – 24 August 1883) was the Legitimist...
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the crowning achievement of the sciences. Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French...
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Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (French: [dɛstyt də tʁasi]; 20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836) was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (redirect from Le Comte de Monte Cristo)
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) serialized from 1844...
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Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (redirect from Louis-Philippe, Comte de Paris)
the Sash of the Two Orders, 22 May 1886 Flers, Hyacinthe, marquis de. Le comte de Paris. Paris: Perrin, 1888. Hanson, Edward. "The Wandering Princess:...
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Regional county municipality (redirect from Municipalité régionale de comté)
term regional county municipality or RCM (French: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC) is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political...
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since January 2016 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Geographers might contend that Belfort lies on the ridge that divides two regions of France, but before 1870...
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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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Géraud III, briefly reunited the comté of Fezensac, which was then detached as an appanage for a younger son, styled comté de Fézensaguet. When Gascogne was...
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa də ɡalo kɔ̃t də lapeʁuz]; variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 1741 – 1788?), often...
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (redirect from Comte de Lagrange Joseph Louis)
et les ouvrages de M. Malus, et de M. le Comte Lagrange". Mémoires de la classe des Sciences mathématiques et physiques de l'Institut de France, Année 1812...
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Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer, explorer and nobleman. A contemporary of the British...
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Charles Malo François Lameth (redirect from Charles-Malo-François, comte de Lameth)
mon neveu Charles de Lameth 1790 - Recit fidele et exact de ce qui s'est passé entre M (le Duc de) Castries et M. (le Comte) Charles de Lameth 1790 - Lettre...
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its name to "Centre-Val de Loire" with effect from January 2015. Two regions, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, opted to retain their interim...
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Philippe Pot (redirect from Philippe Pot, Seigneur de La Roche de Nolay)
Brussels Charles gave him the hôtel of the comte de Nevers. When Charles the Bold died in 1477, Burgundy was divided between his daughter, Mary, heiress to...
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Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpəri/...
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May 2015. Bilefsky, Dan (23 July 2007). "Nostalgia for António de Oliveira Salazar divides the Portuguese". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved...
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Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis];...
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the historical region of Franche-Comté merged for administrative purposes into the new region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region of Burgundy is both...
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defeat of 1870. France during de Gaulle's adolescence was a divided society, with many developments which were unwelcome to the de Gaulle family: the growth...
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Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ də kɔliɲi]; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral...
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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (redirect from Le Vicomte de Bragelonne)
de Bragelonne, the illegitimate son of Athos; his close friend Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche; and the Comte de Wardes, son of the previous Comte...
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Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
municipalities 89 regional county municipalities or RCMs (municipalités régionales de comté, MRC) 2 metropolitan communities (communautés métropolitaines) the regional...
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Île-de-France region. Île-de-France is in the north of France, neighboring Hauts-de-France to the north, Grand Est to the east, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to...
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Canton of Neuchâtel (redirect from Canton de Neuchâtel)
borders the canton of Bern, to the northwest France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). Lake Neuchâtel lies southeast of the canton, while the canton of Vaud...
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Maine (province) (redirect from Comté du Maine)
Histoire du Comté du Maine pendant le X° et XI° siècles, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Paris, 1910. Gérard Louise, "La seigneurie de Bellême...
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