The Column of the Grande Armée (French - Colonne de la grande Armée or Colonne Napoléone) is a 53 metre high Corinthian order triumphal column (modelled...
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La Grande Armée (French for 'The Great Army'; French pronunciation: [ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]) was the main military component of the French Imperial Army commanded...
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Place Vendôme (redirect from Colonne Vendôme)
Ambroise Tardieu, La Colonne de la Grande Armée d'Austerlitz ou de la Victoire, monument triomphal élevé à la gloire de la grande armée par Napoléon. Paris...
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illustrations of Napoleon's wars (La Colonne de la grande armée), and those contained in the series entitled the Grand prix de l'architecture, which for some...
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Edme Gaulle (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
two of the thirty sculptors charged with the sculpture of the colonne de la Grande Armée on place Vendôme in Paris. He was an expert consultant on the...
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to the Arc de Triomphe, along the Avenue de la Grande-Armée to the Porte Maillot, and along the Avenue de Neuilly (now the Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle) to...
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Boulogne-sur-Mer (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
The Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, created during the Great War Colonne de la Grande Armée – Statue of Napoleon I Boulogne-sur-Mer is an important fishing...
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Étienne-Éloi Labarre (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
(1764–1833) was a French architect. He produced the plans for the Colonne de la grande Armée at Wimille, erected in 1804 on the order of Napoléon I. From 1825...
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the English Channel and the road heads along the coast past the Colonne de la Grande Armée and has now been re-numbered the RD 940. The road heads through...
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(Grande Armée) VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée) Garde Іmpériale (Grande Armée) I Corps (Grande Armée) II Corps (Grande Armée) III Corps (Grande Armée)...
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Jacques Gondouin (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
the Grande Armée, Place Vendôme, 1806–1810. (in French) Description des Écoles de Chirurgie, Paris, Pierres, Cellot et Jombert, 1780, gr. in-folio de 18...
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French Revolution. Three members of the family served in Napoleon's Grande Armée and a fourth, who suffered from weak health, served in the supply train...
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French Foreign Legion (redirect from La Légion étrangère)
to allow foreign nationals into the French Army. It formed part of the Armée d’Afrique, the French Army's units associated with France's colonial project...
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Battle of Austerlitz (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
engagements like Cannae or Gaugamela. The military victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to an end, with...
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Jean Maximilien Lamarque (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
was a captain of grenadiers, participating in the "colonne infernale" led by Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne in the Army of the Western Pyrenees...
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War in the Vendée (redirect from War of La Vendee)
colonnes infernales, Perrin, collection Vérités et Légendes, 1993, p. 221 Roger Dupuy, La République jacobine, tome 3 de la Nouvelle histoire de la France...
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Architecture of Paris (section The Palais de la Cité)
had been started in 1763, and transformed it into a 'temple à la gloire de la Grande Armée', a military shrine to display the statues of France's most famous...
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Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
served with the 1st Régiment de Chasseurs à Cheval, who at that time were garrisoned in Metz. He fought in the Armée de la Moselle and took part in the...
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l'illusionniste fin de siècle?: actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, 13–22 août 1996, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, p. 386, ISBN 2878541405 Frazer...
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François Pierre Joseph Amey (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
maint: location missing publisher (link) Nafziger, George (1993). "French Grande Armée, 1 August 1812" (PDF). United States Army Combined Arms Center. Archived...
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Wikipedia. Adam, Jean-Pierre (1977), "À propos du trilithon de Baalbek: Le transport et la mise en oeuvre des mégalithes", Syria, 54 (1/2): 31–63 (50f...
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