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    "patibular forks" is usually written in the plural. From the Latin patibulum ("cross", "gallows", "pole"). The origin of the term comes from the forks used...
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    cuisine du Comté de Nice. Frommer, Arthur (2000). Frommer's Europe. Macmillan USA. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-02-862995-7. ...the unfortunately named merda de can (lit...
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    vin Escargots, with special tongs and fork Beaujolais wine Dijon mustard Comté cheese and vin jaune Gâteau de ménage The area covers the old province...
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    Nevertheless, popular culture frequently attributes Italian culinary influence and forks in France to Catherine. The earliest known reference to Catherine as the...
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    cheese. There are many variants. The cheese is commonly grated Gruyère, Comté, or Emmentaler, but there are many variants using other cheeses or other...
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    Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Lully was born on November 28, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany...
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    du Plessis, seigneur de Richelieu, was a soldier and courtier who served as the Grand Provost of France, and his mother, Susanne de La Porte, was the daughter...
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    certainement un très grand homme, et qui forma de grands hommes. Il fallait qu'il fût martyr ou conquérant, il n'y avait pas de milieu. Il vainquit toujours...
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    recommended by the bishop Louis-Hilaire de Conzié, he secured a scholarship at the prestigious Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Among his peers were Camille...
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    Coulee De Lamere Des Lacs River("of the Lakes"), also Des Lacs Gascoyne (from the French region "Gascogne") Grand Forks (from the French "les Grandes Fourches"...
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    Polish included a bath with regulated hot and cold water as well as dining forks. In 1578, Henry created the Order of the Holy Spirit to commemorate his...
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    Bastille (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    of the name of Comté tower are unclear; one theory is that the name refers to the County of Paris. Bazinière was named after Bertrand de La Bazinière,...
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    Queens County (French: Comté de Queens; 2016 population 10,472) is located in central New Brunswick, Canada. The county shire town is the village of Gagetown...
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    Jean-Baptiste Broussier (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    to divisional general, before being made Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur on 21 July 1809, then comte de l'Empire the following October. He returned...
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  • Cycles Peugeot (category Companies based in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
    lived near the factory. The company turned their steel into knives and forks, hydraulic equipment and, from 1882, bicycles, sold as Cycles Peugeot. In...
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    in the quarter containing the player's talon Grand Jan: in the quarter with the player's rest corner Jan de Retour: in the quarter with the opponent's talon...
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    Louis Pierre (1808). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale : contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première...
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    pronunciation: [kastɛlan]; Provençal Occitan: Castelana) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern...
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    Bernard Thévenet (category Cyclists from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
    riders go by. The sun was shining on their toe-clips and the chrome on their forks. They were modern-day knights. I had already been dreaming of becoming a...
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    300-strong Virginia Regiment, with orders to confront French forces at the Forks of the Ohio. Washington set out with half the regiment in April and soon...
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    normale supérieure: An Historical Sketch, Herald Publications Company, Grand Forks, N.D., 1907. online text Lanson, Gustave, " L'École normale supérieure...
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  • serum against plague ("La peste bubonique", Yersin, Calmette, Barrel, Annal de l´Institut Pasteur 1895, p. 589)" "Antiseptic and aseptic wound treatment"...
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    Homeless Jesus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    prompts 911 calls from worried passers-by". www.grandforksherald.com. Grand Forks Herald. Retrieved 8 November 2023. Ockerman, Emma (16 October 2023)....
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    Hallstatt culture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    western Hallstatt zone includes: northeastern France: Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine, Alsace northern Switzerland: Swiss plateau...
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  • (1553–1610), "le Grand Béarnais." Béchamel sauce – named to flatter the maître d'Hotel to Louis XIV, Louis de Béchamel, Marquis de Nointel (1630–1703)...
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    Seven Years' War (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    important French fort planned was intended to occupy a position at "the Forks", where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio River...
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  • (indirectly, via Virginia) Volney, New York – Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (philosopher) Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president...
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    2024. Vuong, Quan-Hoang (2019). The Vietnamese Social Sciences at a Fork in the Road. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-068608-1. "What is Archaeology". Society for...
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    He later romanticised his origins, claiming his father's family was of grand Iberian and Venetian descent; in fact, Isaac's family was of no great distinction...
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    Alexander Suvorov (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus)
    Giant Suvorov in a pirate hat catches the fleeing French troops with a forks, devours them and tramples others. Just below Suvorov, a French soldier...
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