Polignac may refer to: Polignac family, a French noble family, including a list of its members Duke of Polignac, a title created in 1780 for the Polignac...
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Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (French pronunciation: [ʒyl də pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847), then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd...
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Yolande de Polastron (redirect from Duchess de Polignac)
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac (8 September 1749 – 9 December 1793) was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she first...
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of Polignac (French: Duc de Polignac) is a French dukedom that is held by the Polignac family. The title was originally created for Jules de Polignac in...
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Winnaretta Singer (redirect from Princess Edmond de Polignac)
de Scey-Montbéliard during her first marriage and as Princess Edmond de Polignac following her second marriage in 1893. Winnaretta Singer was born in Yonkers...
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In number theory, Polignac's conjecture was made by Alphonse de Polignac in 1849 and states: For any positive even number n, there are infinitely many...
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The House of Polignac is the name of an ancient and powerful French noble family that took its name from the château de Polignac, of which they had been...
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Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (redirect from Pierre, Count of Polignac)
Valentinois (born Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac; 24 October 1895 – 10 November 1964) was the father of Rainier III of Monaco...
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princes have been male line descendants of the Polignac family. Rainier III, son of Pierre de Polignac, inherited the title through his mother in 1949...
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Legendre's formula (redirect from De Polignac's formula)
Adrien-Marie Legendre. It is also sometimes known as de Polignac's formula, after Alphonse de Polignac. For any prime number p and any positive integer n,...
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Jules de Polignac, 1st Duke of Polignac (Armand Jules François; 7 June 1746 – 21 September 1817) was a French nobleman and the husband of Yolande de Polastron...
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Alphonse de Polignac (1826–1863) was a French mathematician and aristocrat. He his known for Polignac's Conjecture. His father, Jules de Polignac (1780-1847)...
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leaves again. A depressed Marie Antoinette befriends the Duchess de Polignac. Polignac leads Marie Antoinette to her downfall. Marie Antoinette is described...
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Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac (19 April 1834 – 8 August 1901) was a French aristocrat and composer. Edmond was a member of the Polignac family, one of the...
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Diane Louise Augustine de Polignac (1746 – 1818), was a French aristocrat, writer and courtier, and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Élisabeth of France....
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Polignac (French pronunciation: [pɔliɲak]; Occitan: Panhac) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. The town is dominated by...
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Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (February 16, 1832 – November 15, 1913) was a French nobleman who served with the Confederates in the American...
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Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo (redirect from Palazzo Contarini Polignac)
Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo, also known as Palazzo Contarini Polignac is a large palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district, overlooking the Grand...
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Princess Ghislaine de Polignac (5 September 1918 – January 2011) was a prominent member of Paris society, bon vivant, fashion stylist and promoter, and...
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de Polignac (11 October 1661 – 20 November 1742) was a French diplomat, Cardinal and Neo-Latin poet. Second son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac and...
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Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac (7 May 1768 – 30 March 1803) was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie...
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Charles Ludovic Marie de Polignac (24 March 1828 – 13 January 1904) was a French soldier and explorer who spent much of his career in French Algeria. He...
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Armande de Polignac, comtesse de Chabannes-La Palice (Marie Armande Mathilde; 8 January 1876 – 29 April 1962) was a French composer, the niece of Prince...
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The Polignac Memorandum was a document by George Canning (British Foreign Secretary) written in October 1823, stating that Great Britain had no intention...
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Polignac (a.k.a. Jeux des Valets) is a French 18th century trick-taking card game ancestral to Hearts and Black Maria. It is played by 3-6 players with...
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appointed a conservative government under the premiership of Prince Jules de Polignac, who was defeated in the 1830 French legislative election. He responded...
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46 cm), owned by Duke Jules de Polignac. This painting became the property of the Grimaldi family in 1930 when Pierre de Polignac (1895-1964) married Princess...
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party then sought out the king's chief minister, de Polignac – "Jeanne d'Arc en culottes". From Polignac they received even less satisfaction. He refused...
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Princess Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth of Monaco, Countess of Polignac (born 1 February 1965) is the youngest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and American...
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including the conservative Princesse de Lamballe and the flamboyant Duchess of Polignac. Marie Antoinette also refuses to meet or speak with Madame du Barry, the...
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