• Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia, Paivia), a Paradesi Jew of Madras, was a Portuguese Jewish diamond and coral merchant from Amsterdam belonging to the...
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    death of Jacques de Paiva, a Portuguese Jewish diamond merchant and mines owner, Yale formed a relationship with his widow Hieronima de Paiva and brought...
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    citizens of Fort St. George/Madras.[need quotation to verify] Jacques de Paiva (Jaime Paiva), originally from Amsterdam and belonging to Amsterdam Sephardic...
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  • Portuguese origin and belonged to the Henriques De Castro, Franco, Paiva or Porto families. Jacques de Paiva, originally from the Amsterdam Sephardic community...
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    The Hôtel de la Païva ("Mansion of La Païva") is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, that was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25...
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  • Cemetery was established on the street by a Portuguese Jewish trader, Jacques de Paiva. It was later moved to Lloyd's Road and became the Lloyd's Road Jewish...
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  • Afonso de Paiva (c. 1443 – c. 1490) was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer of Ethiopia and the Barbary Coast together with Pêro da Covilhã. According to...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
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    Synagogue is the only synagogue in Madras and it was built by Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) a Paradesi Jew of Madras. Madras Synagogue was also known...
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    Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered...
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    Paris Court of Cassation, at the château de Chantilly, and some private residences the Hôtel Fould and Hôtel Paiva. The decorations of the foyer of the Opera...
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    Saint-Jacques, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Tupigny, Jacques Pierre Meurgey, baron de (1926). Histoire de la paroisse Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie...
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    bataille de Jemappes (The Battle of Jemappes), by Carlo Marochetti (Eastern façade). Le passage du pont d'Arcole (The Battle of Arcole), by Jean-Jacques Feuchère...
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    including that of Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia). The cemetery is under the care of the Isaac and Rosa Charitable Trust, Henriques De Castro family. 2012...
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    Jacques, "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 236 Hillairet, Jacques, "Connaissance du Vieux Paris" (2017), p. 236 "Les statues des villes de la...
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    1765, of the École Militaire designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, was the first step toward the Champ de Mars in its present form. Grounds for military...
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    of Notre-Dame until the work of Jacques-Germain Soufflot in the 18th century. In 1160, the Bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, decided to build a new and...
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    (8 November 1793) Madame du Barry (8 December 1793) Jacques Hébert (24 March 1794) Georges Jacques Danton (April 5, 1794) Camille Desmoulins (April 5,...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Panthéon de Paris)
    Director of the King's public works, Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny, chose Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the church. Soufflot (1713–1780) had...
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    owners to visit these splendors in their absence. In 1731, the wife of Jacques de Matignon, daughter of Anthony I Grimaldi, succeeded her father as head...
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    Louis-Ernest Barrias (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome. Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées...
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    included President Jacques Chirac, with France winning the match 1–0 with Zinedine Zidane scoring the lone goal, and the first-ever at Stade de France, in the...
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    French Revolution. On 14 July 1789, the last provost of the merchants Jacques de Flesselles was murdered by an angry crowd. On 27 July 1794, Maximilien...
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    et dictionnaire de Paris (in French). Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221--07862-4. de Brunhoff, Jacques (1987). La place Dauphine et l'île de la Cité (in French)...
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    annexe Palais de l'Alma housed his mistress Anne Pingeot, mother of his illegitimate daughter Mazarine Pingeot. By contrast, his successor Jacques Chirac lived...
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    The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke bʁɑ̃li ʒak ʃiʁak]; English: Jacques Chirac Museum of Branly Quay), located...
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    The Château de Chantilly (pronounced [ʃɑto d(ə) ʃɑ̃tiji]) is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30...
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    Jacques; Connaissance du Vieux Paris; (2017); Éditions Payot-Rivages, Paris; (in French). ISBN 978-2-2289-1911-1 Jacques Benoist, Le Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre...
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    de l'hôtel de ville has become iconic of the romantic vision of Paris), Marcel Bovis, noted for his night scenes, as well as others such as Jacques-Henri...
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    simple garden laid out in the 1630s by landscape architects Jacques Boyceau and Jacques de Nemours, which he rearranged along an east–west axis that, because...
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