• Rivière was born in Paris. His father, Prosper Rivière, was an embroidery merchant from the Pyrénées. His mother, Henriette Thérese Leroux Rivière, was...
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  • Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the dialogue is improvised...
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    Rennes-le-Château story involving Bérenger Saunière (while novels by Jules Verne are cited to show that the enigma predates Abbé Saunière). The modern reputation...
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    assistant to Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière, the French ambassador. Rivière agreed that Marcellus should go to Melos to buy the statue...
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    Verne (French pronunciation: [vɛʁn]) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Communes of the Doubs...
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    wake of Jules Verne's scientific novels, this literary current took shape in the second half of the 19th century, moving away from the Verne model and centering...
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    wrote number under various other pseudonyms, including Frederic Antony, Verne Goody, William Blessings, Cornel Milk, Frederic Charles and L'Ange Noir...
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    Saint-Paul-du-Vernay (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔlˈ də vɛʁnɛˈ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France...
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    university hospitals in France, with a capacity of 1,200 beds. The author Jules Verne lived in Amiens from 1871 until his death in 1905, and served on the city...
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    are: west: the Noire River (rivière aux Pommes) and the Rivière à Matte, in the Neuville sector; northwest: the Rivière aux Pommes; south: the slope...
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  • Auteuil, east of Vimont and Pont-Viau and around Sant-Vincent-de-Paul. The Rivière des Prairies passes to the south. Commission scolaire de Laval operates...
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    Lafayette's home in France) La Grange Reservoir La Porte ("The door") La Verne Lebec (Le bec = "the beak") Le Grand ("The Big") Montague (pointed hill)...
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  • North) Denise-Pelletier (Rivière-des-Prairies) Des Roseraies (Anjou) Félix-Leclerc (Pointe-aux-Trembles) Fernand-Gauthier (Rivière-des-Prairies) François-La...
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    young Delvaux studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer's Odyssey. His artwork was to be greatly influenced...
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  • theatrical play The Seven Branches of the River Ota (Les Sept Branches de la Rivière Ota). Pat Donnelly, "Macha Limonchik: a Quebec vedette at tender age of...
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    d'attractions en France". Hommes et Terres du Nord. 2. Université de Picardie Jules-Verne Laboratoire de géographie humaine USTL: 74–77. doi:10.3406/htn.1993.2418...
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    of Hell (1890–1917) The Golden Virgin (1897) The Thinker (1904) Jules Verne's tomb (1907) Abraham Lincoln (1920) Mount Rushmore Shrine of Democracy (1927–1941)...
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    Nimrod (writer) (category Academic staff of the University of Picardy Jules Verne)
    Amiens, France, and teaches philosophy at the University of Picardy Jules Verne. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Aleph, beth (1997–2000) and also...
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  • North) Denise-Pelletier (Rivière-des-Prairies) Des Roseraies (Anjou) Félix-Leclerc (Pointe-aux-Trembles) Fernand-Gauthier (Rivière-des-Prairies) François-La...
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  • silhouettes. Rivière was soon joined by Caran d'Ache and other artists, initially performing d'Ache's drama L’Epopee. From 1886 to 1896, Rivière created 43...
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  • "Catherine the Not-So-Great" 1987 Mike Hammer Marie Riviere Episode: "Mike Gets Married" 1987 The Verne Miller Story Vi Miles 1985–1986, 1987–1988 Spenser:...
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  • Gerald McShane John Caboto John XXIII Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo (Rivière-des-Prairies) Nazareth Our Lady of Mount Royal Our Lady of Pompei St. Brendan...
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    Shadowmen): Tome 1 (Rivière Blanche, 2007, ISBN 1-934543-08-X) Tome 2 (Rivière Blanche, 2008, ISBN 1-934543-32-2) Tome 3 (Rivière Blanche, 2009, ISBN 1-934543-47-0)...
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  • Return to the Centre of the Earth (category Music based on works by Jules Verne)
    the Earth, itself based on the same-titled science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It tells a new story of three unnamed travellers who attempt to follow...
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    of Islamic art opened in 1893. In the late 1920s, Louvre Director Henri Verne devised a master plan for the rationalization of the museum's exhibitions...
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    Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Lulu Press. p. 41. ISBN 9781329804036. Verne, Jules. An Antarctic Mystery. In fact the islands' antipodal point, 49°15'N...
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    27, 1894 – March 31, 1896 President Florvil Hyppolite Preceded by Alson Verne Succeeded by Borno Monpoint In office May 15, 1887 – August 10, 1888 President...
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    great writers, starting with Edgar Allan Poe (1838), followed by Jules Verne (1897), who incorporated them into their adventure novels, then Valery Larbaud...
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  • Yves César Cyr du Coëtlosquet (général de division) Jean-Baptiste de La Rivière de Montreuil de Coincy (général de division) Jacques Colas (général de...
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    *uerno, alder tree (Breton gwern, Welsh gwern, Irish fern, modern French verne). The village gave its name to a family who took part in the Norman Conquest...
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