• Saumur (French: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France. It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay...
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    de Gizeux is situated some fifteen kilometres north of Bourgueil and 25 kilometres from Saumur, within the green and wooded parc naturel régional de...
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    the Académie des Inscriptions and of the group around Claude Adrien Helvétius. Soon after, he befriended Pierre Jean George Cabanis, the Marquis de Condorcet...
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  • bear the name of Jean de La Brète: in Saumur, in Cizay-la-Madeleine, and in Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou. 1890 : Prix Montyon, Académie française, for Mon oncle...
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    Charles Ernest Beulé (category People from Saumur)
    Bibliothèque Impériale, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He took great interest...
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    1757). D'Argenson was exiled to his château and estate at Les Ormes near Saumur, but he had previously found posts for his brother, René Louis, Marquis...
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    André Dacier (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Recherches historiques sur la ville de Saumur (1812–1814) P. J. Burette, Éloge de Mme Dacier (1721) Mémoires de Mme de Staël (1755) E. Egger, L'Hellénisme...
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    the Académie de Genève, introduced in 1701 and 1704 by the initiative of Jean-Alphonse Turrettini. He modernized the instruction within the Académie and...
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  • de Pédonzigue, a book sponsored by Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau. He was a member of the Académie de l'humour [fr], the Académie Rabelais...
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    attending provincial nobility to help him attack the royalist garrison of Saumur. In the battle of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, in 1652, he was shot through...
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    ISBN 9780292777033. Retrieved 2 July 2017. "Les Promotions de l'ÉCOLE SPÉCIALE MILITAIRE de SAINT-CYR". Académie Militaire Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. Retrieved 5 May...
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    Beech suggests the tapestry was executed at the Abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur in the Loire Valley and says the detailed depiction of the Breton campaign...
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    had hoped to acquire the command himself. Joyeuse assembled his forces at Saumur, bringing together around 6000 infantry and 2000 cavalry at the start of...
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  • Thomas Lecuit (category People from Saumur)
    October 1971 in Saumur, is a French biologist specializing in the emergence of forms or morphogenesis. He is a professor at the Collège de France, holding...
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    year of his coronation in Reims, he then entered the école royale de cavalerie at Saumur in 1829. However, as a legitimist, he abandoned his career on Charles...
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    Ferdinand Foch (category Members of the Académie Française)
    November 1918, he was elected to the Académie des Sciences. Ten days later, he was unanimously elected to the Académie française. He received many honours...
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    A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he was the son of General Jean-Louis du Temple de Rougemont (1910-1990). Guy du Temple de Rougemont was born...
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    Mandement de l' Eveque d'Angers (Mic Poncet), portant condamnation d'une thèse soutenue dans la maison de Notre-Dame des Ardilliers de Saumur, 23 et 29...
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    traditional French equestrianism is essentially represented at the Cadre Noir de Saumur. The practice of equestrianism has evolved towards sport and leisure,...
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    Marcel Louis Courmes, , École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (1905-1907), École de cavalerie, Saumur (1907-1909), he graduated Major out of 60. He was...
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    and was a member of the Académie française. Pierre Marc Gaston was born in Paris on 7 March 1764, the only son of Francis de Gaston and his wife Gabrielle...
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    Maxime Weygand (category Members of the Académie Française)
    graduating in 1887, he went on to become an instructor at the Cavalry School at Saumur. During World War I, Weygand served as a staff officer to General (later...
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    Venceslas Kruta (category People from Saumur)
    de Versailles [fr]. Venceslas Kruta was born on 4 November 1939 in Saumur, Pays de la Loire. He studied prehistory and archeology at Masaryk University...
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  • Marie. [And a little lower:] de Loménie." In a letter written by the now Marquis Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, from Saumur, to de Loménie, Secretary of State...
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    & Co. Sciences, Académie des (1916). Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts d'Angers (Ed. de l'Ouest ed.). Académie des sciences, belles-lettres...
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    : 277  From 26 February 1847 he was écuyer en chef of the École de cavalerie in Saumur. In 1849 he was promoted to officer of the Légion d'Honneur. He...
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    Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lyon, Bourges, Rouen, Orléans, Meaux, Angers, La Charité, Saumur, Gaillac and Troyes. In most of them, the killings swiftly followed the...
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    Michel Debré (category Members of the Académie Française)
    He also joined the École des Officiers de Réserve de la Cavalerie (Reserve Cavalry-Officers School) in Saumur. In 1934, at the age of twenty-two, Debré...
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  • Angers École de l'Artillerie (EA) - Artillery School, in Draguignan École de cavalerie (EC) - Cavalry School, in Saumur Centre Interarmées de la Défense...
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  • This is a list of domes in France. Hôpital de La Grave Wikimedia Commons has media related to Domes in France. List of Roman domes...
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