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    a literary editor and Grandville, Achille Devéria, Honoré Daumier, Edme Jean Pigal, Auguste Raffet, and Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers as cartoonist...
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    started a European fashion for creating plays around them. The originator was Edmé Boursault, with his five-act verse drama Les Fables d'Esope (1690), later...
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    This problem was solved by optimizing the synthesis of ZnO. In 1845, Edme-Jean Leclaire in Paris was producing the oil paint on a large scale; by 1850...
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    contained pieces of beef butchered and stored as ship's rations. The bones of pigs and fish, stored in baskets, have also been found. Two fiddles, a bow, a...
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    May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615) May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620) June 24 – Sir Edward Dering...
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    Towneley. In continental Europe, the hypothesis is sometimes attributed to Edme Mariotte, although he did not publish it until 1676 and was probably aware...
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    an effort to "invigorate" the industry, Secretary of State of the Navy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, brought shipbuilders trained in the Mediterranean methods...
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    year. The following year, she ran between Shoreham and Dieppe, loaded with pig iron to feed the French war machine. In 1917 the barge was bought by the...
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