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    Colonel Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, KG (c. 1641 – 19 April 1709) was a French, naturalised English, officer and peer. Born in the Kingdom of...
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    of skirmishes with local militias and regular soldiers commanded by Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and John Churchill. However, his recruits were...
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    Claire de Duras left her native France for London during the French Revolution in 1789, and returned to France in 1808 as the Duchess of Duras.[citation...
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    armed with farm tools (such as pitchforks). The royalist troops, led by Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and Colonel John Churchill, were camped behind...
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    publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne. In 1950, her mother returned to...
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    Henri de Durfort, 1st Duke of Duras (9 October 1625 – 12 October 1704) was Marshal of France. Jacques Henri was the oldest son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort...
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  • Earl of Ossory 1685–?: John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave 1685–1688: Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham 1687–?: George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton...
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    John Churchill and George Legge, as well as French Protestants such as Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham. Growing fears of Roman Catholic influence at...
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    Lees Court, in 1709 on the death without issue of his brother in law Louis De Duras 2nd Earl of Ferversham, The earldom was extinguished with the death...
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    will not be noticed that the King is dead. There, Louis succeeded, under the tutelage of Marshal de Duras and Vauban, in taking one of the bridgeheads across...
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    married Gilles, Count of Duras (divorced 1174), grandson of Otto II, Count of Duras. Later married to Theobald I of Bar. Louis was succeeded as Count of...
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  • Jean Baptiste de Durfort, duc de Duras (28 January 1684 - Paris, 8 July 1770) was a French nobleman as duc de Duras and was created a Marshal of France...
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    Emmanuel Félicité de Durfort, duc de Duras (19 September 1715 – 6 September 1789, Versailles) was a French politician, diplomat, peer, marshal and Freemason...
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  • the Baron Feversham. George Sondes, 1st Earl of Feversham (1600–1677) Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham (1641–1709) Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg...
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    the English army had to be reorganised. James' commander-in-chief Louis de Duras, Earl of Feversham, had disbanded the English army in December 1688...
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    Durfort, Duke of Duras. In 1752 he was created the Grand Squire of France, a post which had been occupied by his distant cousin Charles de Lorraine. The...
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    government. According to Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, in her widowhood she secretly married his relation Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham...
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    Château de Duras, the fourth son of Guy Aldonce de Durfort (1605-1665) and Elisabeth de La Tour d'Auvergne. His father was marquis of Duras, comte de Rauzan...
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    Throwley). His descendant was Sir George Sondes, earl of Faversham. Then Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham and Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham (who...
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  • Count Otto of Duras (d. 1147) was a count of Duras, and advocatus of the nearby abbey of St Truiden. Duras and St Truiden are in the modern province of...
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  • was succeeded in his titles by special remainder by his son-in-law, Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, who had married his daughter, Lady Mary Sondes...
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    Marguerite Duras made a literary space of madness or as Claude Simon made war into a literary space, or as Hervé Guibert did with sickness." Louis has said...
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  • Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester 1642–1716 1685 Lord High Treasurer 493 Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham 1641–1709 1685 Captain and Colonel of His Majesty's...
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    Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. She was originally...
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    William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1681) Sir James Butler (1684) Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham (1698) Sir Henry Newton (1709) William Farrer...
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    Gaillard IV de Durfort, Lord of Duras (died 1481), was a 15th-century Gascon noble of the Durfort family. Durfort was the eldest son of Gaillard III de Durfort...
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  • published include Monique Wittig, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras and Robert Pinget, who constituted the backbone of the Nouveau roman literary...
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  • Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham 16 January 1688 – 25 October 1688 Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham 25 October 1688 – 17 May 1689 Heneage Finch,...
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    The Château de Duras (Castle of Duras) in Duras, a half hour walk to the north of Sint-Truiden in Belgium, is built in the Classical style . This Belgian...
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    because he was regent of Duras. This culminated in the decisive Battle of Steppes in 1213 in which Louis prevailed. Louis married Ada, Countess of Holland...
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