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    A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...
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    officer of the vessel was in possession of a valid letter of marque (lettre de marque or lettre de course, the latter giving corsairs their name), and the...
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    Malartic refused to provide a lettre de marque and ordered Émilie to go to the Seychelles to purchase tortoises as food for Isle de France. Émilie departed...
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    of the vessel was in possession of a valid Letter of Marque (fr. Lettre de Marque or Lettre de Course), and the officers and crew conducted themselves...
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    king of France, they were considered combatants and granted a lettre de marque or lettre de course which legitimized any actions they took under the French...
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    Seychelles acted as a haven for French corsairs (pirates carrying lettres de marque entitling them to prey legally on enemy shipping). Quincy hoped this...
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  • refused to provide Surcouf a lettre de marque and ordered Émilie to go to the Seychelles to purchase tortoises as food for Île de France. Upon arrival at Mahé...
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    arranged by Madame de Montreuil. Following the death of Louis XV in May, Madame de Montreuil successfully petitioned for a new lettre de cachet for Sade's...
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    of François de la Noue, two volumes of George Buchanan, the Dialectique of Pierre de La Ramée, the Alphabet de plusieurs sortes de lettres ("Alphabet of...
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    Rolling Stone. "À écouter : la moitié de Daft Punk Guy-Man a curaté une playlist ultra solide pour une marque italienne". Trax Magazine (in French)....
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    Eric Ciotti prospecte les fillonistes du parti Force Républicaine". La Lettre (in French). 18 November 2021. Archived from the original on 12 September...
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    mother, Enriqueta "Quêta" de Laska (died 1925), was of Polish and Portuguese descent, a daughter of Doña Joaquina Maria Marqués de Lonza Lisboa; she had been...
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    dernier. [...] Challenges a reçu une lettre d'Alexandre Marque (Cabinet Franklin), avocat de Patrick Drahi nous sommant de ne pas intégrer son client dans...
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    Retrieved 14 June 2021. "Circulaire relative à la nouvelle stratégie de marque de l'Etat" [Circular relating to the new brand strategy of the State]. www...
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    Gérard Grandval (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Prix de Rome and was a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and notably designed the Choux de Créteil. Grandval studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly...
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    (member, secretary, then president of l'Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle) wrote as early as 1867 that Rainguet's estimate...
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    le commerce from the English of Josias Tucker, and in 1754 he wrote his Lettre sur la tolérance civile, and a pamphlet, Le Conciliateur, in support of...
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    président Daniel Richard". YouTube (in French). 18 May 2009. "Lettre ouverte au Président de la République Française". ecoforum.fr (in French). Archived...
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  • Pierre Courcelle (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Institut de France and associated with the library Fondation Dosne-Thiers). Les Lettres grecques en Occident de Macrobe à Cassiodore, Paris, de Boccard...
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    [citation needed] Commissioning scroll Exequatur Firman Letter of marque Lettre de cachet Papal bull, a type of letters patent issued by a Pope Royal...
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    "et la tasse à café rouge de mar e I y da la ma de ctor" can be read "et la tasse à café rouge de marque Illy dans la main de Victor Miesel," and the following...
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    in collaboration) Le Livre des grandes marques: à la découverte des marques grand public parmi les plus fortes de France, collectif (Milan's editions, 2003)...
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    (Mollat, G., op cit, pj, no II pp. 49–50. See also Jean XXII (1316–1334) Lettres secretes et curiales relating to France, by Coulon, A. and Clemencet, S...
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    command of the marqués de Villefranca (marquis of Villefranca) started an advance on Siena, and captured various villages. When the marqués died in February...
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  • (1979). Catherine de Médicis. Fayard. Gellard, Matthieu (2014). Une Reine Épistolaire: Lettres et Pouvoir au Temps de Catherine de Médicis. Classiques...
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    Boucher, Jacqueline (2012). Lettres de Henri III, Roi de France: Tome VII (21 Mars 1585-31 Décembre 1587). Société de l'Histoire de France. Boucher, Jacqueline...
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    |journal= (help) "Portrait : Philippe Laylle, le monsieur cinéma de la SNCF |". Lettre du cheminot.fr (in French). 22 October 2017. Archived from the original...
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    voyantes célèbres qui ont marqué leur époque". Vanity Fair (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-03. irenebimbasperduta (2018-05-15). "Madame de Thebe". I Tarocchi...
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    Belgique,1996 (in French) Lettre ouverte à la secte des adversaires des sectes, 1997 (in French) Les émigrants belges : réfugiés de guerre, émigrés économiques...
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  • Émile Ollivier (writer) (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    étudiantes de la Faculté de l'éducation permanente de l'université de Montréal. Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre...
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