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    charge of the petite écurie. From 1643 till 1790 the post of Grand Squire was held by Henri of Lorraine's oldest male line descendants. Robinson, James...
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  • Ferdinand (1883). Campagnes de Charles IV, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, en Allemagne, en Lorraine et en Franche-Comté (1634–1638). Paris: H. Champion. Goldsmith...
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    Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (pronounced [alzas ʃɑ̃paɲ aʁdɛn...
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    Moselle (department) (category 1790 establishments in France)
    Moselle (French pronunciation: [mɔzɛl] ) is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary...
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    revenues had dwindled to 23,000 livres. In 1790 the French government abolished all religious orders and Saint-Père-en-Vallée was suppressed. In 1803, the abbey...
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    Religion, Montier-en-Der supervised twelve priories, and the abbey was one of the core benefices in the strategy of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, who exercised...
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  • Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Alsace and Lorraine, territories of the Holy Roman Empire located between the Meuse and Rhine rivers, were annexed...
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    Biel in 1751, Biel or Bihle in 1779, Bilh in 1790, Bille in 1793, Bühl between 1871-1918, Buhl-Lorraine in 1920, Bühl am Kanal between 1940-1944. Communes...
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    Meuse (department) (category 1790 establishments in France)
    Belgium to the north. Parts of Meuse belong to Parc naturel régional de Lorraine. It had a population of 184,083 in 2019. Front lines in trench warfare...
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    Vosges (department) (category 1790 establishments in France)
    created on 4 March 1790 during the French Revolution. It was made of territories that had been part of the province of Lorraine. In German it is referred...
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  • County of Armagnac (category States and territories disestablished in 1790)
    Armagnac was created. In 1751, following the death of childless Charles de Lorraine, Comte d'Armagnac, the county was absorbed into the Crown lands of France...
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    Nancy, France (category Duchy of Lorraine)
    French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by...
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    House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Francis I Stephen, emperor 1745–1765 (→Family Tree) Joseph II, emperor 1765–1790 Leopold II, emperor 1790–1792 (→Family Tree)...
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    all-purpose units of the government, was decreed on 26 February 1790 (with letters patent on 4 March 1790) by the National Constituent Assembly. Their boundaries...
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  • Uzès (1762–1790) Mayenne duchy-peerage in 1573, 7 holders Charles de Lorraine (1554–1611), duke-peer of Mayenne (1573–1611) Henri de Lorraine (1578–1621)...
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    Park". Retrieved 29 June 2012. Beck J.S. (2011) 2000 ans de climat en Alsace et en Lorraine. Eds. Coprur. ISBN 978-2-84208-209-3 (in French) "Weatherspark...
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    for his support of the Revolution and did not regret his resignation in 1790. Lafayette, one of the former military leaders in the American War of Independence...
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  • de Paris. Chartes francaises de Lorraine et de Metz, 1873 – French charters of Lorraine and Metz. La guerre de Metz en 1324: poème du XIVe siècle (with...
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    noble family originally from Lorraine. The family derived its name from the barony of Pouilly at Stenay in Meuse. In 1790, during the French Revolution...
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    Marquis de Custine (category 1790 births)
    Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18 March 1790 – 25 September 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing...
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    and design of the cockade are the basis of the Tricolour flag, adopted in 1790, originally with the red nearest to the flagpole and the blue farthest from...
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    Haute-Marne (category 1790 establishments in France)
    French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Champagne, Burgundy, Lorraine and Franche-Comté. In March 1814...
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    Brigitte Adélaide Berthelot, daughter of the maréchal des camps et armées of Lorraine. They had four sons and two daughters. Their eldest son, Cécile Stanislas-Xavier...
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    Haut-Rhin (category 1790 establishments in France)
    original 83 départements, created during the French Revolution, on 4 March 1790 through the application of the law of 22 December 1789 in respect of the...
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  • Theresa, Queen (1740–1780) House of Habsburg-Lorraine Joseph II, King (1780–1790) Leopold II, King (1790–1792) Francis, King (1792–1835) Bans (complete...
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  • pâturage et le parcours, en Lorraine, Nancy, Thomas père et fils, in-8°, 15 p. 1774: Introduction à la description de la Lorraine et du Barrois, Nancy, in-8°...
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    son of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine. For the majority of his twelve-year reign, he delegated the administration...
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    agglomeration had a population of 23,824. In 1572 Cardinal Charles of Lorraine established a Jesuit university at Pont-à-Mousson. With the Protestant...
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    merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin...
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    Paris, published in January 1790, as part of the coverage of the trial of Pierre Victor, Baron de Besenval On Monday, 1 March 1790, the Baron de Besenval was...
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