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    Adolphe Gustave Maximilien Ernest Van Glabbeke (8 August 1904 - 5 July 1959) was a Belgian politician from the Liberal Party who served in several government...
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    Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/tiˈɛər/ tee-AIR; French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and...
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    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: /ˈkʊərbeɪ/ KOOR-bay, US: /kʊərˈbeɪ/ koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter...
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    William-Adolphe Bouguereau Alexandre Cabanel Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse Jean-Jacques Henner Louis Héctor Leroux Émile Lévy Gustave Moreau Léon...
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    first instrument of this sort was designed by Parisian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. He built a bourdon saxhorn in 52′ E♭ and exhibited it at the Paris...
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    Minister of Finance Paul Jourdain – Minister of Labour Gustave L'Hopiteau – Minister of Justice Adolphe Landry – Minister of Marine André Honnorat – Minister...
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    Fragments d'histoire: Philippe II, Catherine de Médicis, Coligny, don Juan d'Autriche, Alexandre Farnèse, Gustave-Adolphe et Richelieu. Paris. 1886.{{cite...
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    Valençay SOE Memorial (category World War II memorials in France)
    Defence [fr] Ange Defendini [fr] George William Hedworth Demand [fr] Francois Adolphe Deniset [fr] Julien Theodore Joseph M. Detal [fr] Roland Dowlen [fr] André...
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  • Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier 1832 prince de Trévise 1832 - 1835: Nicolas Joseph Maison 1835-1848 Prosper Brugière de Barante 1849-1849 Adolphe Emmanuel...
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  • Editions A. Levavasseur, 1833 Gustave Hue Un Complot de police sous le Consulat, Editions Hachette, 1909 See in particular Adolphe Thiers, History of the Consulate...
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    Blouse Eugène Boudin – 33 paintings including Trouville Beach William-Adolphe Bouguereau – 12 paintings including The Birth of Venus, La Danse, Dante...
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    Napoléon-Jérôme married Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. However this did not prevent a nine-year relationship with the courtesan...
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  • Maurice Hamy Michel Hénon Paul Henry and Prosper Henry Pierre Hérigone Gustave-Adolphe Hirn Pierre Janssen Odette Jasse René Jarry-Desloges Stéphane Javelle...
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    Inferno (Dante) (category Cultural depictions of Henry II of England)
    Farinata explains that also crammed within the tomb are Emperor Frederick II, commonly reputed to be an Epicurean, and Ottaviano degli Ubaldini, whom Dante...
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    of the belle époque French painting". His refusal together with William-Adolphe Bouguereau to allow the impressionist painter Édouard Manet, and other...
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  • Saint-Lazare in Paris. April – Third "Exhibition of Impressionists" arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 6 rue Le Peletier in Paris. May 1 – The Grosvenor Gallery...
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    French Third Republic in September 1870 (under French chief-executive Adolphe Thiers from February 1871) and the complete defeat of the French Army by...
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    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French...
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    his marital progeny (Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, was the half-brother of his mother, Queen Sophia). The other sons of Oscar II were Prince Carl, Duke...
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  • Hierosolymitani xenodochii). This was repeated by Honorius II in a bull issued 1123. Innocent II continued the confirmation on 16 June 1135 with his bull...
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    Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat (4 January 1863 – 18 May 1940) was a French Army general during World War I. Adolphe Guillaumat was born in Bourgneuf,...
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    Establishment of the Christian Empire, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. Vols. I, II, III, IV, V, & VI Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education. U.S. Government...
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  • reputation for roasted and grilled meats. It was after the arrival of chef Adolphe Dugléré that the Café Anglais achieved its highest gastronomic reputation...
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    Adolphe Vuitry (French pronunciation: [adɔlf vɥitʁi], 31 March 1813 – 23 June 1885) was a French lawyer, economist and politician. He became recognized...
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  • Belgian family active in the construction industry since 1865. In 1865, Adolphe Blaton-Aubert (1835–1905) founded the company ‘Entreprises Blaton Aubert’...
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    Fields. It was completed in 1876, built using an iron framework designed by Gustave Eiffel. Originally located on the site of the church was a Roman temple...
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    Nicholas II, in 1904–1905, where it was a cause of the 1905 Russian Revolution.[citation needed] The banquets are mentioned several times in Gustave Flaubert's...
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  • largely engineers such as John Smeaton, Peter Ewart, Karl Holtzmann, Gustave-Adolphe Hirn and Marc Seguin who objected that conservation of momentum alone...
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    Adolf Hitler (redirect from Adolphe Hitler)
    such as Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustave Le Bon, and Arthur Schopenhauer. During his life in Vienna, Hitler also...
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    (1858–1892), married Albert Salomon von Rothschild. Alphonse and his brother Gustave developed somewhat of a rivalry with their English cousin Nathaniel de...
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