The Grand Master of France (French: Grand Maître de France) was, during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration in France, one of the Great Officers...
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of France (French: Grand maître de France), similar to the position of Lord Steward, was head of the King's Household. Grand Chamberlain of France (French:...
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Maison du Roi (redirect from Grand Provost of France)
Household: Domestic household: Grand Maître de France (also one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France) the First Maître d'hôtel (Chief Butler) - overseeing...
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Grand Master of Artillery (Grand-Maître de l'Artillerie royale). From the beginning of the 17th century, the Grand Master of the Artillery became a Great...
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Seneschal (redirect from Seneschal (France))
second-in-command of the Order after the Grand Master. Grand maître de France – the Great Officer of the Crown of France in charge of the Royal Household (the...
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to carry the banner of France. In rank, the position was between the Grand Maître de France and the Grand Écuyer. During a lit de justice, he sat at the...
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a Maître de conférences. This remains rare however, most of the time the aggregation is a way to accelerate career advancement for the Maîtres de conférences...
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Louis, Count of Vendôme (category Grand chamberlains of France)
obtained valuable posts at court, becoming Grand Chamberlain of France in 1408 and Grand Maître de France in 1413. As part of the Armagnac faction, he...
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Picard. Merlet, Lucien (1852). "Biographie de Jean de Montagu, grand maître de France (1350-1409)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes Année. 13: 248-284...
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"Biographie de Jean de Montagu, grand maître de France (1350-1409)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes Année. 13: 248-284. doi:10.3406/bec.1852.445064. de Mézières...
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The Grand Master of Artillery or Grand Maître de l'artillerie was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime. The position...
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The Grand Master of Ceremonies of France or Grand maître des cérémonies de France was one of the Great Officers of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household")...
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The Grand Orient de France (GODF) is the oldest and largest of several Freemasonic organizations based in France and is the oldest in Continental Europe...
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Le maître du jeu de retour pour une 2e saison" (in French). Showbizz.net. May 8, 2023. Retrieved October 9, 2023. "LE MAîTRE DU JEU" (in French). Public...
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Kings of France 1328–1589. A&C Black. Merlet, Lucien (1852). "Biographie de Jean de Montagu, grand maître de France (1350–1409)". Bibliothèque de l'École...
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Legion of Honour (redirect from Légion d'honneur de France)
Commandeur (Commander), Grand officier (Grand Officer) and Grand-croix (Grand Cross). During the French Revolution, all of the French orders of chivalry were...
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Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (redirect from Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine)
Louis-Auguste never became more than a mediocre soldier. He was made Grand Maître de France. The king also blackmailed his cousin, the wealthy La Grande Mademoiselle...
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Gims (redirect from Lo Mismo (Maître Gims and Alvaro Soler song))
Maître Gims and more recently just Gims (stylized in all caps), is a French-Congolese singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter. He grew up in France and...
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Henri I, Duke of Guise (redirect from Henri Ier de Lorraine, 3me duc de Guise)
and Grand Maître de France in 1563.: 170 The Guise family and Guise (as he will henceforth be referred to) craved vengeance against Gaspard II de Coligny...
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free first the king and then the king's sons. In 1526 he was made Grand Maître (Grand Master), granting him authority over the king's household, he was...
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with a full tenure. They are either Maître de conférences (Senior lecturers), or Professeurs (Professors). A Maître de conférence must publish a reviewed...
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Bourbon-Penthièvre (category House of Bourbon (France))
Amiral de France (Admiral of France), Grand Maître de France, (Grand Master of France), Grand Veneur de France, (Grand Huntsman of France), Maréchal de France...
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his grandson, King Louis XVI, Louis Joseph held the position of Grand Maître de France in the King's royal household, the Maison du Roi. Obtaining the...
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Ballet master (redirect from Maître de Ballet en Chef)
ballet master (also balletmaster, ballet mistress, premier maître de ballet or premier maître de ballet en chef) is an employee of a ballet company who is...
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Josserand (2020-01-01). "En quête de Jacques de Molay, dernier grand-maître de l'ordre du Temple". Medievalista (in French) (27). doi:10.4000/medievalista...
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Marius Petipa (category French ballet masters)
relocated to Bordeaux, France, in 1834 where Marius' father had secured the position of Premier maître de ballet to the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. While in...
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Madame de Sévigné relates in her memoirs that when King Louis XIV of France visited there in 1671, François Vatel, the maître d'hôtel to the Grand Condé...
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Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy (redirect from Artus Gouffier de Boissy)
207-230. Etienne Fournial, Monsieur de Boisy. Grand maître de France sous François Ier, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1996, 149 p. Arlette Jouanna...
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Dorothée Le Maître (French pronunciation: [dɔʁɔte lə mɛːtʁ] ; 1 September 1896 – 26 January 1990) was a French geologist and paleontologist known for her...
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Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy on 18 February 1984), is the wife of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume, the...
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