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    Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (French pronunciation: [emil ʒɑ̃ ɔʁas vɛʁnɛ]; 30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was...
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    with a double overhead cam engine and four-speed gearbox. This year Just-Émile Vernet/Fernand Vallon swapped the Caban-Salmson for a second-hand GSS of...
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    Jean Sébilleau had a French privateer entry. For the third time, Just-Émile Vernet and Fernand Vallon raced together, again with their seven-year old...
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    re-fitted with a lighter, modern body. His co-driver would again be Just-Émile Vernet. Talbot returned to Le Mans after a 2-year absence, albeit in far...
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  • Lorraine-Dietrich was now owned by Daniel Porthault, who entered with Just-Émile Vernet, using Vernet’s tenth place finish in a Salmson last year, to take the entry...
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    Valence de Minardiere Delage D6-70 Delage 3.0L I6 58 32 1.1 41 Just-Emile Vernet Just-Emile Vernet Suzanne Largeot Simca Huit Fiat 1.1L I4 55 33 5.0 21 Marcel...
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    this year stepped up to the big class with three new D.20 Coupés. Having just won the non-Championship Targa Florio with a 3.0L V6 engine, team manager...
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    registration authority), or its foreign equivalent That was, in a sense, just formalising an unofficial practice started in the 1930s, when race-specific...
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    who had driven a BNC twice before, were brought in as co-pilots. Just-Émile Vernet entered his privateer SIMCA Six, with Suzanne Largeot as his co-driver...
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    officially cancelled the Le Mans race on 23 June. The French Grand Prix was held just five days later, run to the new formula. Raymond Sommer and Jean-Pierre Wimille...
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    Morgan 4/4 Coventry Climax 1.1L I4 184 +65 laps 16 1.5 34 Just-Emile Vernet Just-Emile Vernet Carl de Bodard Riley Sprite TT Pourtout Riley 1.5L I4 180...
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  • Autobleu Simca appeared in the 1949 Bol d'Or automobile. Driven by Just-Emile Vernet, it won the 1100 cc class, and placed third overall. After appearing...
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    road-testing, but two did make the entry-list. Its 1086cc engine developed just 46bhp but that still gave a top speed of 100mph (160 km/h). Again, French...
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    attempted to drive the entire 24 Hours by himself – and almost won. With just over an hour to go however, the connecting rod of Levegh's car broke, taking...
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    Finally, the iconic Dunlop bridge was rebuilt – a footbridge over the circuit just after the first corner. A record 112 entries were received by the ACO, and...
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    made it by just one lap, finishing fifth and winning the 1500cc class. The little Caban of Vernet/Vallon was the final classified car, just meeting its...
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    Pierre Veyron Nash-Healey 5.0 9 DNF (Engine) 1954 Automobiles VP Just-Emile Vernet VP 166R S 750 190 DNF (Accident) 1955 Automobiles VP Yves Lesur VP...
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    Farina had been injured in the Mille Miglia and Mike Hawthorn's father had just died suddenly – Ferrari could still field a top team of drivers: three of...
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    on the road after Arnage was removed. A new “signalling pits” was built just after the Mulsanne corner (in the same place Bentley had used 20 years earlier...
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    29 February 2020. This new 9.8 kilometres (6.1 mi) line runs from Carle Vernet northwest from Bordeaux through Le Bouscat, Bruges and Eysines, ending at...
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    2014. Boyer 1988, p. 356. "Claude-Joseph Vernet". National Gallery, London. Retrieved 5 April 2014. "Vernet" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed...
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    grandmother was sister to the French artist Vernet, without clarifying whether this was Claude Joseph, Carle, or Horace Vernet. Holmes' brother Mycroft, seven years...
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    Minister of National Education Georges Rivollet – Minister of Pensions Émile Casset – Minister of Agriculture Louis Rollin – Minister of Colonies Henri...
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    and depicts his martyrdom. The portrait of Saint Genevieve is by Emile Leconte-Vernet. Above the woodwork of both chapels are bas-relief sculptures of...
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    Flux of Immanence", in "Becoming of the Body" - Edinburgh University Press Vernet, Matthieu. "M. D. Lee, Les Identités d'Amélie Nothomb". www.fabula.org....
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    Caumont. Joseph Vernet, A Shepherdess in the Alps. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini. Horace Vernet : Joseph Vernet, Attached to a...
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  • of death could not be established. Émile Soleil (2), disappeared on 8 July 2023 in the French commune of Le Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. No trace...
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     465. Levtzion 1973, pp. 8–17. Munson 1980, p. 466. Kevin McDonald, Robert Vernet, Dorian Fuller and James Woodhouse, "New Light on the Tichitt Tradition"...
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    in Hamburg for France. Shortly afterward his father was interned in Le Vernet. He and his mother were then interned in various camps from 1940 to 1942...
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    such refugees were confined in internment camps such as Camp Gurs and Camp Vernet. Although over half of these had been repatriated to Spain (or elsewhere)...
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