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    Earl of Chesterfield. Library resources about Claudine Guérin de Tencin Resources in your library Resources in other libraries By Claudine Guérin de Tencin...
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  • Percy Blakeney) - The Scarlet Pimpernel Athos (Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle, Le Comte de La Fère) – The Three Musketeers Demosthenes (Valentine...
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    a theory also promoted by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. By placing an emphasis on environmental influences as a material...
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    When Comte de Lally was executed for treason in 1766, Voltaire wrote a 300-page document in his defense. Subsequently, in 1778, the judgment against de Lally...
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    of Lt. Col Sir Charles Hamilton James (son of Charles Hamilton (styled Comte d'Arran in France), illegitimate son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton...
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    "Statuts de l'Ordre du Saint Espirit – RIALFrI" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-05-14. Chesterfield.), Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of; Chesterfield, Philip...
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  • (eliminated after the dessert) Christine Wendland, Executive Chef from Chesterfield, NJ (winner) Notes: The theme of this episode was backyard barbecuing...
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    founding a new opera house, the Théâtre de Monsieur in 1788, under the patronage of Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence, the king's brother, whose court...
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    me die to the sound of delicious music.": 36  — Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (2 April 1791) "My work is done; I have nothing to do but to go...
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    citing: Delambre, M. "Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. le comte J.L. Lagrange", Oeuvres de Lagrange I. Paris, 1867, p. xx. Westminster Abbey. "Sir...
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    Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral...
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    studies took a philosophical and religious bent. He corresponded with the Comte de Montmort on the subject of Nicolas Malebranche's tenets. Unfinished treatises...
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    Cadillac had convinced King Louis XIV's chief minister, Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, that a permanent community there would strengthen French...
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    of Chesterfield, was the patron of the Plan, to Johnson's displeasure. Seven years after first meeting Johnson to go over the work, Chesterfield wrote...
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    George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (category Barons de Ros)
    earns the enmity of Comte de Wardes, whose father was the lover of Milady de Winter, who was responsible for the old Villiers' death. De Wardes escorts him...
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    Boswell's The Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson was parodied in Lord Chesterfield's Letters of 1737 as "a respectable Hottentot". In its ethnic sense, Hottentot...
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    September. Around sixteen thousand soldiers under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau quickly converged there and defeated Cornwallis in the siege...
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    List of twin towns and sister cities in France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    "Jumelages" (in French). Fontenay-le-Comte. Retrieved 16 November 2019. "Villes jumelles" (in French). Comité de jumelage de Fontenay-sous-Bois. Retrieved 13...
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  • de Montmorency, Duc de Montmorency c. 1492–1567 1532 296 Philip de Chabot, Comte de Neublanche d. 1543 1532 297 James V, King of Scotland 1512–1542 1535...
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    religion could apply to all social and civil institutions as well. Lord Chesterfield and Bishop Warburton as well as others initially thought that the work...
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    and led to the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. A statue of Admiral Comte de Grasse and a granite memorial honor those who fought in the battle. Although...
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    allied Continental Army's General George Washington and French General comte de Rochambeau. After two further years of infrequent conflict and many treaty...
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    Bermuda Hundred, Virginia (category National Register of Historic Places in Chesterfield County, Virginia)
    Bermuda Hundred is now a small community in the southeastern portion of Chesterfield County, Virginia. Prior to English contact, the site was an Appomattoc...
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  • Railways, UIC. July 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2022. "Le réseau des lignes de chemin de fer à grande vitesse en Europe" (PDF) (in French). Communauté d'intérêts...
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  • courtier to Charles II after the Restoration. He appears in the Mémoires du Comte de Grammont, written by his brother Anthony. In 1651 when about 21, James...
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    troops. The French fleet at Newport was given a new commander, the Comte de Barras. De Barras was ordered to take the Newport fleet to harass British shipping...
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  • (indirectly, via Virginia) Volney, New York – Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (philosopher) Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president...
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    March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019. "Culture et sciences". Université de Franche-Comté (in French). 29 March 2017. Archived from the original on April 30...
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    Secret Service. May 22, 2023 – Sai Varshith Kandula, 19-year-old man from Chesterfield, Missouri allegedly drove a U-Haul truck into a security fence. According...
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  • "Coupe de France POULE Q (CHAMPAGNE) 1er Tour" (in French). FFF. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2017. "Coupe de France Poule J (FCHE COMTE) 1er Tour"...
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