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    Geuzen (redirect from Gueux de la mer)
    (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərɣøːzə(n)]; lit. 'Water Beggars'; French: Gueux de mer). In the Eighty Years' War, the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen...
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  • Gueux can mean different things: Les Gueux ("The Beggars") and les Gueux de mer ("Sea Beggars"), name taken on during the Eighty Years' War by the Dutch...
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    was used by the Watergeuzen (Gueux de mer, "Sea Beggars"), the pro-Dutch privateers during the Dutch Revolt. According to de Waard (1900), the Dutch navy...
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  • Érard de La Marck became prince-bishop from 1506 until 1538. His great-grandson William II de la Marck was an important leader of the Gueux de mer in the...
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    Sedan, and Marshal of France in 1547. William II de la Marck (1542–1578) was admiral of the Gueux de mer, the so-called 'sea beggars' who fought in the...
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    stamp in 1972. That was based on the fact that in 1572 the Watergeuzen (Gueux de mer, "Sea Beggars"), the pro-Dutch privateers, captured Den Briel in name...
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    flagship of the Christian navy in the Battle of Lepanto (1571). Dutch gueux de mer engage the Spanish at the battle of Haarlemmermeer, 1573; painting by...
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    aventurières de la mer, Paris: Clancier-Guénaud, pp. 31–39 Lapouge, Gilles (1987), Les Pirates, forbans, flibustiers, boucaniers et autres gueux de mer Gicquel...
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    Charles VI, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Lapouge, Gilles (1987), Les Pirates, forbans, flibustiers, boucaniers et autres gueux de mer...
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    money to the curious. The following day, William de la Marck, Lord of Lumey, commander of the Gueux de mer, had them interrogated and ordered a disputation...
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    French Huguenot port of La Rochelle. They were called "Sea Beggars", "Gueux de mer" in French, or "Watergeuzen" in Dutch. The Sea Beggars continued to use...
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  • started a civil war William II de La Marck (1542–1578), Lord of Lumey and initially admiral of the Gueux de mer Marck, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in northern...
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    Dutch Navy. Willem Bloys van Treslong (1529–1594), a captain of the Gueux de mer Jacob Arnout Bloys van Treslong (1756–1826), also called Jacob Arnold...
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    (principally Spanish) ships, which were also being attacked by the Dutch gueux de mer corsairs). To block La Rochelle's ships from accessing the sea, the Duke...
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  • Dutch marine. Willem Bloys van Treslong (1529–1594), a captain of the Gueux de mer Jacob Arnout Bloys of Treslong (1756–1826), also called Jacob Arnold...
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    15 songs based on poems by Richepin taken from La Chanson des Gueux, Mes Paradis, La Mer... - and one by his friend Raoul Ponchon : 'Vive l’eau', from...
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    social engagement and philanthropy. Vidocq also inspired Hugo's "Claude Gueux" and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). In...
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    He reported his findings in the only book he would ever publish: L’eau de mer, milieu organique, in 1904. The publication provoked disagreements and was...
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  • This article lists the complete bibliography of short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Date of composition unknown, but most likely 1891. Probably written...
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    comte)" . Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850  (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie. v t e...
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  • Soirées de Médan (with Zola, Huysmans et al. Contains Boule de Suif by Maupassant) (1880) La Maison Tellier (1881) Mademoiselle Fifi (1882) Contes de la bécasse...
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    Puissance de Pascal (1923) Stendhal, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval et autres gueux (1923) Goethe le grand Européen (1932) Portraits sans modèle (1935)...
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    Victor Hugo (category Members of the Institut canadien de Montréal)
    writers such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a real-life murderer who had been executed...
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    engagement and philanthropy. Vidocq helped Hugo with his research for Claude Gueux and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man).[citation...
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  • The 2009–10 Coupe de France is the 93rd season of the French most prestigious cup competition, organized by the French Football Federation, and is open...
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    Romans 125, 2009) Le Retour des gueux (Pour ta belle gueule d'ahuri 6, 1983) "La Traversée d'Algir". Imagine... 20. 1984. "De silence et d'absence". Solaris...
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    team manager, while his brother Ernesto joined Baconin Borzacchini and Diego de Sterlich driving the 2-litre 26B, while Luigi Fagioli ran the 1.5-litre Tipo...
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    Bugatti drivers Costantini and Goux were joined by Spaniard Pierre de Vizcaya. De Vizcaya's supercharger gave out before half time, falling an hour behind...
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    Souders, driving Peter DePaolo’s 1925 race-winning Duesenberg, came through and took a comfortable victory with an eight lap margin. DePaolo went on to secure...
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  • Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. p.175-76 "Le Puits de Jacob (1925), a film by Edward José". Theiapolis. 1928-05-20. Retrieved 2017-07-13...
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