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    Banque Rothschild was very active in lending to governments. Following the independence of Belgium, it financed Leopold I of Belgium. Following the July Revolution...
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    needed] In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet and art dealer Léopold Zborowski and his wife Anna. Zborowski became Modigliani's primary art...
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    Belgium. Created in 1827, it is, along with the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, the Rue Ducale/Hertogstraat and the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat, one of the four thoroughfares...
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    December 2024 as the Corinthia Brussels. The hotel is located at 101–103, rue Royale/Koningsstraat, not far from the Congress Column and Brussels Park...
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  • opposing forces including the wealthy oil magnate Leviticus Cornwall (John Rue), whose assets become a gang target. In response, he recruits a team of agents...
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    educational enterprise, the Collège de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, located on Rue des Postes [fr], prepared its students for the entrance examinations to the...
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  • actress Rita La Roy Ina La Roi Stuart 1901-1993 American actress Jack La Rue Gaspere Biondilillo 1902-1984 American actor Patti LaBelle Patricia Holt...
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    the sale of engravings after pictures by Ingres, Hippolyte Delaroche and Léopold Robert. After Rittner's death, Goupil formed a partnership with Théodore...
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    Salomon of Austria. Highly successful as lenders and investors, the Paris operation also became bankers for Leopold I of Belgium. In 1822 the influential...
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    of Varda's favorites of her own works, L'opéra-mouffe, a film about the Rue Mouffetard street market which won an award at the 1958 Brussels Experimental...
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    the public prosecutor Dumas, the family Duplay and the printer Charles-Léopold Nicolas had to be arrested first, so Robespierre would be without support...
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    that Blanc himself had copied forgeries abroad and had them etched by Léopold Flameng to illustrate his third catalog with so-called facsimiles. In 1986...
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    the most distinguished musicians in Europe: Henry Bredemers, Pierre de La Rue, Alexander Agricola, Marbrianus de Orto and Antoine Divitis. Josquin Desprez...
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    Diéterle, circa 1900 by Henri Manuel. Amélie Diéterle by photographer Léopold-Émile Reutlinger. Amélie Diéterle by Nadar in 1895 in the operetta: Le...
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    of Corots) who loved to show his paintings to visitors at his shop on the rue Pigalle. Ottoz's grandfather was also the subject of the famous portrait...
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    Retrieved 13 November 2008. Robert Kuttner (23 October 2008). "Capital Rues". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved...
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  • The Crab with the Golden Claws. The address 26 Labrador Road (French: 26, rue du Labrador) is also the real-life address of the Musée Hergé. Henri Fourcart...
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  • more often correct than the less complex ones (while the converse would lend support to its use). If the latter interpretation is accepted, the validity...
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  • appreciate the song, but the understanding of the source material certainly lends the song a particularly eloquent quality, makes it work so beautifully as...
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  • Commentatious historicus discussing 7th century pilgrims including Vulphy of Rue, also noted by Arculf, and Saint Bercaire (died 696). Bercaire (Bercharius)...
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    Noot for their shared love for Goedele van der Zennen, and later lends his name to the Rue du Bois Sauvage/Wildewoudstraat [fr]. 1306 19 March: The Guilds...
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  • into a house at 25 rue Cranz (now 33 rue Philippe Baucq), where Georges was born, although a year later they moved to a house at 34 rue de Theux. His primary...
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  • Sándor Jr., along with Lena's mother Oma, settled in an apartment at 24 Rue Du 11 November in Meudon, east of Paris. Radó established the Inpress for...
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    he should never have done". The message was in French and was sent from 4 rue de la Concorde, Paris, the address of a club to which Gordon-Cumming belonged...
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  • works published between 1960 and 1990—Colonel Rémy (1963), Georges Beau et Léopold Gaubusseau (1969/1984), Henri Amouroux (1974), Marcel Meyssignac (1978)...
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    g(r)uspinu 'nasturtium' (from Punic cusmin), curma 'fringed rue' (cf. Arabic ḥarmal 'Syrian rue'), mítza 'spring' (cf. Hebrew mitsa, metza 'source, fountainhead')...
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    Georges Piron de la Varenne (category Recipients of the Order of Leopold II)
    memorial in Fleurines, in Paris on a plaque at the corner of rue de la Colonie and rue Vergniaud in Paris, (13th arr.) and a stone at Père-Lachaise cemetery...
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    Orchestra" was an espionage network based in Berlin and coordinated by Leopold Trepper, a GRU agent sent into Germany in October 1941. This group made...
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  • Frédéric Basse (category Order of Leopold (Belgium))
    that time, Basse borrowed extensively from the Société générale and other lenders, causing his debts to grow significantly. In the early 1840s, Basse contributed...
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    Grandmaison 1940–1949: Dr. Robert Ranjard 1949–1954: Robert Milliat 1954: Léopold Bariller 1955–1961: Albert Philippon 1961–1967: Pierre Leveel 1967–1970:...
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