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    The Château de Bon-Hôtel is a château of the 19th century, located in Ligny-le-Ribault, in Loiret in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. The building is...
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    to the font by Duke Louis of Orléans, Pierre le Bègue de Villaines and Countess Joan of Ligny. They gave him the name Louis and the archbishop of Vienne...
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    Battle of Marengo, and was promoted to chef d'escadron. In 1803 he bought Hôtel Beauharnais. After rising through the ranks under the Consulate, Eugène...
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    moved to the Hôtel des Invalides. However, the top of the hill remained uncultivated until it was leveled to create the Place du Roi de Rome (Place du...
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    requests were not answered. On 22 April 1806, he was found dead at the Hôtel de la Patrie in Rennes with five stab wounds in the left lung and one in the...
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    Calais (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    French President Charles de Gaulle married Yvonne Vendroux. South of the Place and opposite the Parc St Pierre is the Hôtel-de-ville (the town hall), and...
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    comte de Roussillon et de Ligny │ │ │ │ │ │ │ X Anne de La Tour (+1530) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─>Suzanne (1466–1531), comtesse de Roussillon et de Ligny...
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    was also governor of Luxembourg and Ligny. When Philip I passed away, he again was succeeded by his son, William de Croÿ (1458-1521). William was the chief...
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  • Stanislas de Poldavie Simone Simon as Victoire Georges Morton as Prefect of police Guy Sloux as Teddy Smith Alexander D'Arcy as Alonzo Emmanuel Ligny as Jimmy...
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    Pierre de Rieux and Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan, and 1600 men marched on the Hôtel Saint-Pol, shouting "Vive le Roi et le Connétable d'Armagnac!" Guy de Bar...
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    (now used by the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale), the hôtel de Mortemart rue Saint-Guillaume, the hôtel de Jars, and hôtel rue Van Dyck, in Parc Monceau...
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  • Yves Pires (category People from Val-de-Marne)
    present Events: February 2009 December 2010 February 2012 GALERIE CLARUS - LIGNY LE RIBAULT June to July 2010 June to July 2011 Banque BARCLAY'S - ORLEANS...
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    there. The "Hôtel" was restored in 1850. The building became the town Hall of Orléans in 1790 (weddings are still celebrated inside). The hôtel de la Vieille...
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    Arras (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Héros and La Grand'Place), the Art District (the Theatre of Arras and the Hôtel de Guînes), the Abbey District (The Saint-Vaast Abbey and the Cathedral of...
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    Grand'Place. The belfry of the Hôtel de ville de Lille (Lille City Hall) is one of the 23 belfries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Somme regions that were...
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  • in charge of the military education of his young nephew Jean II de Luxembourg-Ligny, who would later be the lord of Enguerrand's son Antoine. In 1411–1412...
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  • Launois-sur-Vence - Ardennes - A34 exit 13/14 Le Caylar - Hérault - A75 exit 49 Ligny-en-Barrois - Meuse - RN4 Magnac-Bourg - Haute-Vienne - A20 exit 41 Massiac...
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    Brigitte Bardot (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    and Anne-Marie Mucel (1912–1978). Bardot's father, who originated from Ligny-en-Barrois, was an engineer and the proprietor of several industrial factories...
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    more than 80 bells. Hospice de Havre, founded in 1260. The cloister and the chapel date from the seventeenth century. Hôtel de ville (1885), in Napoleon...
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    of his uncle, Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken, who settled him in the Hôtel des Deux-Ponts. He became Count of Rappoltstein in 1776[citation needed]...
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  • Trois Burettes (category Battle of Ligny locations)
    the French army crossed two bridges near the Trois-Burettes. Battle of Ligny (1815): The French Army of the North under Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a...
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    French invaded the Netherlands, with Napoleon defeating the Prussians at Ligny, and Marshal Ney engaging indecisively with Wellington at the Battle of...
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    natives of the town is one of Nicolas Oudinot, whose house serves as the hôtel-de-ville. Other sights include Notre-Dame Bridge, with five arches surmounted...
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    Arnaud were still on good terms. In 1643, Arnaud introduced Bossuet to the Hôtel de Rambouillet, a great centre of aristocratic culture and the original home...
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    Residence and a bowling in Hôtel de Ville. Villeneuve d'Ascq is home to several football teams which play in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais football league, in...
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    Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) in the town centre Museum of Fine Arts (former Ursuline Convent) Hôtel de Senecé (Lamartine museum) Saint-Clément...
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    Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Holuigne 1982, p. 90. de Geeter & de Geeter 1987, p. 136. Société académique du Touquet-Paris-Plage 2011, p. 102; chronography. "Hôtel Westminster - 1924...
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    Battle of Austerlitz (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    also depicted on the bas-relief of the eastern pillar of the Arc de Triomphe and Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. Gare d'Austerlitz Military career of Napoleon...
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    Louis Bonaparte (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
    benefited from Napoleon's patronage. In 1802, he married his step-niece Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of Empress Joséphine (Napoleon's wife). In 1806...
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    Dionne Église Notre-Dame Hôtel-Dieu Église Saint-Pierre (view 1) Église Saint-Pierre (view 2) View of the imposing roof of the Hôtel-Dieu View of the Armançon...
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