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    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism...
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    Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel...
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    Marie-Jean-Léon Lecoq, Baron d'Hervey de Juchereau, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys (Chinese: 德理文; pinyin: Lǐwén; 6 May 1822 – 2 November 1892) son...
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    Saint-Léon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ leɔ̃]; Gascon: Sent Leon) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France....
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    Saint-Pol-de-Léon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔl də leɔ̃]; Breton: Kastell-Paol) is a commune in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western...
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    which Antoine de Saint-Exupéry didn't live to see, Léon Werth said: "Peace, without Tonio [Saint-Exupéry], isn't entirely peace". Léon Werth did not see...
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  • Jean-Charles-Léon Danjoy (31 May 1806 – 4 September 1862) was a French architect who specialized in renovating historical buildings. Danjoy was born on...
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    Jean de Brébeuf SJ (French: [ʒɑ̃ də bʁe.bœf]) (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625...
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    Saint-Jean de Montmartre (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ d(ə) mɔ̃maʁtʁ]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 19 Rue des Abbesses in the 18th...
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    Saint Paul Aurelian Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Paul-Aurélien) was a Roman Catholic cathedral, now basilica, in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, in the Finistère department...
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    Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than...
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    The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, pronounced [sɔsjete sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ batist]) is an institution in the Canadian province...
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  • "Karl-Jean Longuet". Widewalls. Retrieved 2018-07-14. France, Centre (2022-02-20). "Histoire - Le jour où Léon Blum inaugure à Saint-Léonard, le buste de Pressemane...
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    Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (10 April 1780, Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865) was a French medical doctor and naturalist. Between 1799 and...
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    and London. Later, he founded Leon Capital, a private equity investment firm. Prince Jean-Christophe was born in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. He is the...
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    of Madame de Maintenon lies in the Chapel. Schools in the city include: Preschools: Robert Desnos Victor Hugo Léon Jouannet Paul Langevin Jean Macé Henri...
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  • Saint-Jean de Passy (known as "le Pensionnat de Passy" between 1905 and 1911, and "le Pensionnat diocésain de Passy" between 1911 and its second change...
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  • Léon de Sorel, marquis de Sorel (1655 – 4 November 1743) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator who was governor of Saint-Domingue in 1719–1723...
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    Montaigu, Palluau and La Garnache. Daughter of Harvey VI, Lord of Léon, Lord of Léon, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais and Hacqueville, and Matilda of Poissy (...
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    during the general chapter held in Rome, the provincial of Touraine, Léon de Saint-Jean, was appointed a member of a committee to further revise these constitutions...
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    La cathédrale de Saint-Pol et le minihy Léon (in French). Quimper: A. de Kerangal. pp. 28–32. A list of the Bishops of Saint-Pol de Léon is given at pp...
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    Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor...
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    Altarpiece of Saint Stephen Gérôme, Jean Léon; Cars, Laurence Des; Font-Réaulx, Dominique de; Papet, Édouard (2010). The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme...
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    Léon Trépanier OBE, (June 29, 1881 – September 19, 1967) was a Quebec journalist, historian and politician. He was president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste...
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    Jean Clouet (1480–1541) Léon Cogniet (1794–1880) Alphonse Colas (1818–1887) Émile Colinus (1884–1966) Nicolas Colombel (1646–1717) Charles-Fernand de...
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  • Jean-Léon Destiné (March 26, 1918 – January 22, 2013) was a Haitian-born American dancer and choreographer. He was born in Saint-Marc and moved to the...
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  • l'idée générale des sçiances et leur plan représenté en cent tables by Léon de Saint-Jean (1655) an extract in French of the authors Latin Enciclopaediae praemessum...
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    Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde...
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  • Jean Léon Marie Delumeau (18 June 1923 – 13 January 2020) was a French historian specializing in the history of the Catholic Church, and author of several...
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    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpəri/...
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