• Jean Dreux is a retired slalom canoeist who competed for France in the 1950s. He won a gold medal in the C-2 team event at the 1951 ICF Canoe Slalom World...
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    Dreux (French pronunciation: [dʁø]) is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Dreux lies on the small river Blaise, a tributary...
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    The House of Dreux was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. It was founded by Robert I, Count of Dreux, a son of Louis VI of France, who was given the...
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    (born 9 October 2018 in Dreux). Prince Alphonse Charles François Marie d'Orléans (born 31 December 2023 in Carcassonne). Jean believes that the people...
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    Yolande of Dreux (20 March 1263 – 2 August 1330) was a sovereign Countess of Montfort-l'Amaury from 1311 until 1322. Through her first marriage to Alexander...
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    Robert IV of Dreux (1241–1282), Count of Dreux, Braine and Montfort-l'Amaury, was the son of John I of Dreux and Marie of Bourbon. Robert fought with...
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  • Neveu/Roger Paris & René Gavinet/Simon Gavinet) 1951: France (Pierre d'Alençon/Jean Dreux, Jacques Musson/André Pean & Claude Neveu/Roger Paris) 1953: France (René...
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    Robert II of Dreux (1154 – 28 December 1218), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the eldest surviving son of Robert I, Count of Dreux, and Agnes de Baudemont...
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    The Royal Chapel of Dreux (French: Chapelle royale de Dreux) situated in Dreux, France, is the traditional burial place of members of the House of Orléans...
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    The Counts of Dreux were a noble family of France, who took their title from the chief stronghold of their domain, the château of Dreux, which lies near...
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    de Bourbon, future Duchess of Orléans would move Jean Marie's body to the Royal Chapel, Dreux; Dreux is today the burial site of the Royal House of Orléans...
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    Bizy. On the night of 6 to 7 March, his body was brought clandestinely to Dreux, where it was buried in the family crypt at the Collégiale Saint-Étienne...
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    Jean Rotrou (21 August 1609 – 28 June 1650) was a French poet and tragedian. Rotrou was born at Dreux, city of the current department of Eure-et-Loir...
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    "chased". Having studied law, he became a lawyer and settled in Anet near Dreux where he served the tax judge. In 1782 he married Marie-Louise de La Barre...
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  • Yolande of Dreux (1212–1248) was Duchess of Burgundy as the first wife of Hugh IV of Burgundy (duke of Burgundy between 1218 and 1271). She was the daughter...
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    Robert I of Dreux, nicknamed the Great (c. 1123 – 11 October 1188), was the fifth son of Louis VI of France and Adélaide de Maurienne. In 1137 he received...
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    Jean Métezeau ( ? – 27 April 1600 in Dreux) was a 16th-century French architect. He came from a family of master masons and general contractors from Dreux...
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    Adèle of Dreux (1145 – after 1210) was a member of Norman French nobility, daughter of Robert I, Count of Dreux and his second wife Hawise of Salisbury...
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  • Philippa of Dreux, Dame de Coucy (1192–1242) was a daughter of Robert II of Dreux and his second wife Yolande de Coucy. Philippa was the fifth of seven...
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    Neveu/Roger Paris & René Gavinet/Simon Gavinet) 1951: France (Pierre d'Alençon/Jean Dreux, Jacques Musson/André Pean & Claude Neveu/Roger Paris) 1953: France (René...
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    Michel de Dreux-Brézé, Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (15 June 1700 – 17 February 1754) was a French nobleman, military officer and courtier in the reign of Louis...
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  • Jean-Luc Houssaye is a retired French slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1950s. He won two medals at the 1953 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships...
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  • Viscount of Tartas. He was the eldest son of Charles II of Albret, Count of Dreux and of Anne of Armagnac. As he predeceased his father, he never ruled Albret...
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    another pre-Roman people, the little-known Durocasses, had their capital at Dreux. Eure-et-Loir comprises the main part of the region of Beauce, politically...
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  • married Jean II of Drieux, Count of Dreux, Seigneur of Montpensier (Jean I) Robert V of Dreux, Seigneur of Montpensier - son Jean III of Dreux, Seigneur...
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    the son of Arthur II, Duke of Brittany and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux. He contested the inheritance of the Duchy of Brittany by his niece, Joan...
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    Hubert Damisch. "Noah's Ark." AA Files, number 72 (2016): pages 115–26. Jean-Pierre Isbouts. Archaeology of the Bible: The Greatest Discoveries From Genesis...
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    Maritime in Ciboure. Philomena, her husband Jean and their children lived at their family estate in Dreux, France, but in 2020 they moved to live in Montréal...
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    Yolande of Brittany (late 1218 – 10 October 1272), also known as Yolande de Dreux, was the ruler of the counties of Penthièvre and Porhoet in the Duchy of...
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    commission for eight additional stained-glass designs for Orléans chapel in Dreux. He became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took his...
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