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    2019, Blois is the most populated city of the department, and the 4th of the region. Historically, the city was the capital of the County of Blois, created...
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    908. Theobald became viscount of Blois before 922. Afterwards the House of Blois accumulated the counties of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun and as successors...
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    ex-voto, Blois, Blois Cathedral. Oil painting, Portrait du préfet du Loir-et-Cher Louis Chicoilet de Corbigny, 1829, Blois, Château de Blois Pastel, Charlotte...
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    The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge (named pont Jacques-Gabriel in French) spans the Loire river in Blois, France, since the beginning of the 18th century. With...
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    The County of Blois was a feudal principality centred on Blois, south of Paris, France. It was created just after king Clovis I conquered Roman Gaul around...
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  • Jacques Bougier, nicknamed Boyer de Blois was a 17th-century French architect who died in 1632. Bougier intervened on the decoration of the Henri IV gallery...
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    Jacques-François Amand (1730–1769) was a French painter of historical subjects. Amand was born at Gault, near Blois, in 1730. He studied under Pierre...
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    I, Count of Blois, and Mary, Countess of Blois. While his elder brother John I of Châtillon succeeded to their mother's County of Blois, Guy was given...
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    Blois-Vienne (French pronunciation: [blwavjɛn]), or merely Vienne for locals, is the common name given to the southern part of Blois, central France, separated...
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    Fréderick Chopin par Jacques Loussier (CBS) 1982 – Pagan Moon (CBS) 2004 – Impressions of Chopin's Nocturnes (Telarc CD-83602) 2014 – Jacques Loussier Concerto...
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  • Jacques Chéreau (29 October 1688 in Blois, France – 1 December 1776 in Paris) was a portrait engraver, printmaker and publisher of optical prints in a...
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    Archéologie en Région Centre : Vivre au bord de l'eau à Blois (in French). Annie Cosperec (1994). Blois : la forme d'une ville (in French). p. 406. ISBN 2-11-081322-9...
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    Jacques Alingue (born April 30, 1988) is a Chadian-French professional basketball player for ADA Blois of the LNB Pro A. In 2013–14, he averaged 8.9 points...
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    Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré (born 10 December 1827, Blois – died 21 February 1907, Le Havre) was a French Dominican, a celebrated pulpit orator. Monsabré...
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  • Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!". Animated Views. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. Retrieved 2019-02-14...
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  • Abeille des Aydes Blois Basket 41, commonly known as ADA Blois, is a professional basketball based in Blois, France. The club plays in the Pro A, which...
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    Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (Latinized as Jacobus Faber Stapulensis; c. 1455 – c. 1536) was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism...
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    I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois. They had: Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois Guy IV, Count...
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    legitimised Françoise Marie and gave her the courtesy title of Mademoiselle de Blois, a style once held by her older half-sister Marie Anne de Bourbon, a legitimised...
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    château between 1624 and 1630, to designs by the sculptor architect of Blois, Jacques Bougier, who was trained in the atelier of Salomon de Brosse, and whose...
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    The first castle on this site, situated between Blois and Amboise, was built by Odo I, Count of Blois, in the 10th century, with the purpose of protecting...
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    1490 – 14 September 1550, La Fleche), Duchess of Beaumont, married 1505 in Blois, François, Duke of Longueville (d. 1512), married 1513 Charles, Duke of...
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    Château de Doué-la-Fontaine built by the Count of Blois around 900. The counts of Anjou and Blois had bordering territories, and the powerful lords were...
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    the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont's son named Jacques Le Ray (1760–1840) went to America in 1785. There...
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    betrothed at St. Omer, and on May 19, 1440, the wedding was conducted at Blois. Reportedly, Catherine and Charles had a friendly relationship, but due...
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    Jacques Davy Duperron (15 November 1556 – 6 December 1618) was a French politician and Roman Catholic cardinal. Jacques Davy du Perron was born in Saint-Lô...
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    fellow architect François Debret. Restoration of the castles of Château de Blois, Château de Gaillon, and Château de Dampierre Completion and restoration...
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    Below is a list of selected paintings by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. Translated from the equivalent article on Russian Wikipedia plus additional...
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    in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, and was the elder brother of Amédée Thierry. He had no advantages of birth or fortune, but was distinguished at the Blois Grammar...
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    coprophilia. This soon led to her admission to a psychiatric hospital in Blois, where she died on 13 October 1913, in apparent obscurity. In 1930, André...
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