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    Verdun (/vɜːrˈdʌn/ vur-DUN, UK also /ˈvɛərdʌn/ VAIR-dun, US also /vɛərˈdʌn/ vair-DUN, French: [vɛʁdœ̃] ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is...
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    The Diocese of Verdun (Latin: Dioecesis Virodunensis; French: Diocèse de Verdun) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic...
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    Colonel Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, who had commanded the defense of Verdun, chose death by suicide to avoid the dishonor of surrendering Verdun. Battle...
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    The Prince-Bishopric of Verdun was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was located at the western edge of the Empire and was bordered by France, the Duchy...
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  • Charles Nicolas Gabriel, Verdun, Notice historique, 1888, réédition 1993 Poull, Georges, La maison souveraine et ducale de Bar, Presses Universitaires de Nancy...
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    was a French officer. Born in Coulommiers, he commanded the defence of Verdun against the invading Allied armies of the First Coalition, shortly before...
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    Verdun (c. 1130 – c. 1205) was a renowned metalworker, goldsmith and enamellist active around the years 1180–1205. He was born in the city of Verdun,...
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    the Battle of Verdun in 1916. Atkin Buckingham Atkin, Nicolas. Petain. Routledge, 2014; ISBN 978-0582070370 Buckingham, William F. Verdun 1916: The Deadliest...
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    Nicolas of Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur (16 October 1524 – 23 January 1577), was the second son of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, and Renée de Bourbon. He was...
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    Elizabeth de Burgh (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d'-BER), due to her first marriage to John de Burgh. Her two successive husbands were Theobald II de Verdun (of the...
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  • The French town of Verdun was the site of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War, one of the most costly battles in military history. Since then...
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    town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians. Inhabitants of...
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    of Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur and his wife Margaret of Egmont. He was the younger brother of Louise of Lorraine and the uncle of Cardinal Charles de Lorraine-Vaudémont...
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  • (1559–1560) Charles Leprévot de Grandville (1560–1568) (†) Nicolas de Verdun (1567–1569) (†) Pierre Brulard (1567–1569) Pierre Clausse de Marchaumont (1568–1577)...
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  • Nicolas Beauzée (9 May 1717 in Verdun, Meuse – 23 January 1789 in Paris) was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale (published 1767) and one...
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  • Moy Prince François of Lorraine (1599–1671), bishop of Verdun from 1623 to 1661. Jacques-Auguste de Thou, Histoire Universelle, vol. 11 (London, 1734), p...
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    point for essential supplies going to the besieged city of Verdun during the Battle of Verdun in 1916. Thousands of trucks, carrying men, equipment and...
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    1794. Pache was born in Verdun, but grew up in Paris, of Swiss parentage, the son of the concièrge of the hotel of Marshal de Castries. He became tutor...
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    Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916. The relief was immediately hidden by tarpaulins to conceal...
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    country of Verdun-sur-Garonne at the end of the 14th century. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave...
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    Eric of Lorraine (category Bishops of Verdun)
    of Verdun and half brother of Louise of Lorraine, Queen consort of France. Eric of Lorraine was born in Nancy on 14 March 1576 as a son of Nicolas, Duke...
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  • Giovanni Veneroni (category People from Verdun)
    lexicographer and grammarian. It is believed that he was a native from Verdun (Meuse) and later Italianized his name. He went to Paris, where he pretended...
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    succeeded his brother Nicolas to the bishopric of Châlons; Nicolas had inherited the title from their mother's brother. Clausse de Marchaumont was consecrated...
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    victory at the nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was called "the Lion of Verdun" (French: le lion de Verdun). After the failed Nivelle Offensive...
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  • the County of Hainaut. He was baptised Annibal, but the Bishop of Verdun, Nicolas de Bousmar, gave him the confirmation name Servais (Servatius). He made...
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  • Nicolas Bellavène (20 October 1770, in Verdun – 8 February 1826, in Milly) was a French general. His name is engraved on the east side of the Arc de triomphe...
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    department and it hosted an important battle/offensive in 1916 in and around Verdun. Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution...
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  • constituency. The by-election will be held on the same day as one in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun in Quebec. The riding of Elmwood—Transcona was vacated on March 31, 2024...
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    de Villiers organized an association of 600 members (3,650 today) named "l'Association du Puy du Fou", whose current president is his son, Nicolas de...
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    Goldenstein (the lawyer for Geneviève Dupont de Ligonnès, the suspect's mother; Christine, his sister; and Bertram de Verdun, Christine's husband): "We don't even...
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