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    Durtal (French pronunciation: [dyʁtal] ) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. It is around 32 km north-east of Angers the department...
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    feature Durtal, a character on a spiritual journey who eventually converts to Catholicism. In the novel that follows, L'Oblat (1903), Durtal becomes an...
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  • Durtal (9 April 1974 – 1996) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was the best British-trained two-year-old filly...
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    appearance. It is the first of Huysmans's books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself, who would go on to be...
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  • Jean Durtal, real name Marie-Charlotte Sandberg-Charpentier (16 February 1905 - 27 June 1999) was a 20th-century French poet, novelist, and woman of letters...
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    to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which...
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    Huysmans's books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself. Durtal had already appeared in Là-bas, investigating...
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  • Saint-Sulpice) - Saint-Sulpice 948 Pymoor Observatory ENG Pymoor 949 Durtal Observatory - Durtal 950 Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma Observatory)...
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    cycle of four novels featuring the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself. Durtal had already appeared in Là-bas, En route and...
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    Canadian amber, Campanian †Atriculicoides Remm 1976 Spanish amber, Albian Durtal amber, France, Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian, Taimyr amber...
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    en nouvel alphabet", Arabica, 53 (4), 2006, pp. 423–471. (French) Jean Durtal, Saïd Akl: Un grand poète libanais, Nouvelles Editions Latine, 1970 (French)...
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  • Paris, France Marais (company), a heavy equipment manufacturer based in Durtal, France Marais, also known as The Plain, a political group during the French...
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    Vieilleville (1509 – 30 November 1571), lord of Vieilleville, 1st comte of Durtal, was a French governor, diplomat, ambassador, conseillé du roi and marshal...
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    troubled fascination. In Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel Là-bas, the protagonist Durtal, planning to write a book about Rais, paints the Middle Ages in the vivid...
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  • trenchers. The head office and workshop buildings have been located in Durtal since 2001. Marais society via its founder, Jacques Marais is in 1962 behind...
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  • Champeaux - 9 December 1591) was a French nobleman and soldier. He was count of Durtal (Duretal) and a knight of the Order of St Michael. He served five kings...
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    Schomberg (1575 in Paris – 1632 in Bordeaux), Count of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin and Durtal, Duke of Halluin, and Anne de La Guiche (?–1663). Daughter of Louis Charles...
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    national security agent in charge of the Vampire investigations, Inspector Durtal, has been found in the swamps near Saint-Clement-Sur-Cher, with the head...
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    Triano (1992) Cheveley Park Stakes – (4) – Fleet (1966), Lalibela (1967), Durtal (1976), Marwell (1980) Cork and Orrery Stakes (Golden Jubilee Stakes) –...
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    Rochefoucauld) His aunt, Anne Alexandrine Rosalie de La Rochefoucauld, Countess of Durtal, was guillotined in Paris in 1794 during the Reign of Terror. La Rochefoucauld...
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    Hippodrome de la Bretonnière, Meslay-du-Maine Hippodrome de La Carrière, Durtal Hippodrome de l'Atlantique, Saint-Jean-de-Monts Hippodrome de la Loire,...
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  • 2022 Educational Director and Professor at the Académie du Bout du Monde Durtal. He gives master classes among others for the Lang Lang International Music...
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    Joris-Karl Huysmans' fin de siècle novel Là-bas (where the protagonist Durtal conducts intensive research into this historical figure), to the "sacred...
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    (1899–1995), illustrator, poster artist, and advertising designer Jean Durtal (1905–1999), poet and novelist Hervé Bazin (1911–1996), writer Henri Dutilleux...
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    Coudray-Macouard Courchamps Courléon Denée Dénezé-sous-Doué Distré Doué-en-Anjou Durtal Écouflant Écuillé Épieds Erdre-en-Anjou Étriché Feneu Fontevraud-l'Abbaye...
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  • of his dam Durtal, a top-class racemare who won the Cheveley Park Stakes in 1976. As a daughter of the influential broodmare Derna, Durtal was closely...
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    Coudray-Macouard Courchamps Courléon Denée Dénezé-sous-Doué Distré Doué-en-Anjou Durtal Écouflant Écuillé Épieds Erdre-en-Anjou Étriché Feneu Fontevraud-l'Abbaye...
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    Cheffes (49090) Cornillé-les-Caves (49107) Corzé (49110) Denée (49120) Durtal (49127) Écouflant (49129) Écuillé (49130) Étriché (49132) Feneu (49135)...
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    191 km: served cities Sablé-sur-Sarthe and La Flèche 11 (Durtal) to 205 km: served city Durtal Rest Area: La Chapelle-Saint-Laud 12 (Seiches-sur-le-Loir...
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    rivals to win by four lengths from the filly Durtal. The form of the race was subsequently boosted when Durtal won the Cheveley Park Stakes and was rated...
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