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    (Canada) Works by or about Arthur de Gobineau at Internet Archive Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de: Encyclopædia Iranica Joseph-Arthur (Comte de) Gobineau: UQAC...
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    Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One...
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    Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.ʒɛn]; 29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat. He served...
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    Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...
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    Abel Lefranc published his book, Sous le masque de William Shakespeare: William Stanley, VIe comte de Derby (1918). Several other authors later supported...
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    Alfred. French foreign policy under De Gaulle (Greenwood Press, 1977) Hoffmann, Stanley. "The Foreign Policy of Charles de Gaulle." in The Diplomats, 1939–1979...
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    Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ də kɔliɲi]; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral...
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    appear mainly in Franco-Provençal, e.g. daveigne (Jura), dav(d)gna (Franche-Comté).[citation needed] The prune plum tree is often found in streuobstwiesen...
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    Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel...
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    ISBN 0-06-058544-7. La Croix de Castries, René de (1967). Madame du Barry (in French). Paris: Hachette. Loomis, Stanley (1959). Du Barry: A Biography...
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    dictator, under the pseudonym Jaime de Andrade, Franco wrote a brief novel called Raza, whose protagonist is believed by Stanley Payne to represent the idealised...
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    Spain (redirect from Reino de España)
    (including holdings in the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and the Franche-Comté). The so-called Age of Discovery featured explorations by sea and by land...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    defence in the Siege of Paris (885–886), for which the then Count of Paris (comte de Paris), Odo of France, was elected king of West Francia. From the Capetian...
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    streets that bear his name Statue de Jean De Lattre, parc de la Mairie Château Montelambert – Maîche – Franche Comté – France Memorial plaque at...
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    Bloody Fighting Retreat. Osprey. Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII. Cambridge at the...
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    University Press. ISBN 1-55553-088-5 Osborne, Richard (1998), "Le comte Ory", in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. One, p. 913...
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    Wikipedia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Wikipedia. In 2015, French researchers José Lages of the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon and Dima Shepelyansky of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse...
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    When Comte de Lally was executed for treason in 1766, Voltaire wrote a 300-page document in his defense. Subsequently, in 1778, the judgment against de Lally...
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    from the Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval force commanded by the Comte de Grasse over the...
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    Manuel Villaverde Cabral, Manuel de Lucena and Manuel Loff think that the Estado Novo should be considered fascist. Stanley G. Payne wrote that, "Salazar's...
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    was born on December 31, 1735, in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur (Count and Countess of Crèvecœur). In 1755 he migrated...
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  • Lescot [fr] as Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Austria's ambassador to France Noémie Lvovsky as Countess Anne de Noailles, a lady-in-waiting Marianne...
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    Charles II of Spain (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    with France in the 1678 Treaties of Nijmegen, with Spain ceding Franche-Comté and areas of the Spanish Netherlands returned in 1668. Seeking to minimise...
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    Charlotte (1599–1664), who married James Stanley, Earl of Derby; Élisabeth (1601–1604) and Frédéric (1602–1642) comte de Laval. In 1602, Charlotte-Brabantine...
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    Reine Margot (1845), La Dame de Monsoreau (1846) and Les quarante-cinq (1847) as well as Les deux Diane (1846) Stanley Weyman, A Gentleman of France...
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    Stewart Parnell, Henry Morton Stanley, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Professor Max Muller, Blanche Roosevelt, the Comte de Paris, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord...
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    "Saint-Georges [Saint-George], Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de". In Tyrrell, John; Sadie, Stanley (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians...
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  • The Musketeers (category Cultural depictions of Marie de' Medici)
    Richelieu in Series One, Marc Warren as Comte de Rochefort in Series Two, and Rupert Everett as the Marquis de Feron in Series Three. Jessica Pope and...
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    by Stanley Kramer and directed by Michael Gordon. José Ferrer received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring performance as Cyrano de Bergerac...
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    245–50. Journal d'émigration du prince de Condé. 1789–1795, publié par le comte de Ribes, Bibliothèque nationale de France. [2] Archived 7 March 2016 at...
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