• Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour was born in France in 1593 to Huguenot Claude de Saint-Étienne de la Tour and his wife Marie Amador de Salazar, a...
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  • Claude de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (c. 1570 – after 1636) was born in the province of Champagne, France and came to Acadia in 1610 after suffering heavy...
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  • married Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, daughter of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux, widow of Acadian Governor, Charles de Menou...
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    Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (French pronunciation: [maʁi viktɔʁ nikɔlɑ də fa.i də la tuʁ mobuʁ]; 22 May 1768 – 11 November...
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  • Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1 August 1722 – 19 September 1739) was a French noblewoman and the wife of Charles de Rohan. She was Marchioness...
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    Antoine Barnave, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve and Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg to Varennes to escort Marie Antoinette and her family back to...
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    Jules (1864). La Tour Saint-Jacques de Paris, Volume 1. Paris: Debuisson & Cie. p. xi. Jean-François Lagneau, "La restauration de la tour Saint-Jacques",...
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    Saint-Étienne-la-Thillaye (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿etjɛn la tijɛ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern...
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    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpəri/...
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    Governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (a Protestant) had been granted one area of territory by King Louis XIV, and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay (a...
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    2021. cf. Paulette Leblanc, Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, Apôtre de la Dévotion Mariale, p. 6 Leonard Foley OFM, Saint of the Day: Lives, Lessons and...
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    Valois-Saint-Rémy, the Countess de la Motte, the central figure in the notorious Affair of the Diamond Necklace, who plotted to defraud Marie Antoinette...
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    Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (French: L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine), or less formally, La Madeleine, is a Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine...
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  • He was the son of Huguenot Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and Marie’s direct descendant, Marie Amador de Salazar. Their descendants would go on...
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    begins in 1929. 1957: Saint-Étienne-de-Murray-Bay is renamed Saint-Étienne-de la-Malbaie. 1958: The Village Municipality of La Malbaie officially becomes...
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    Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn də sɛ̃ ʒwaʁ]; literally 'Saint-Étienne of Saint-Geoirs') is a commune in the Isère department...
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    of Saint-Étienne) Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726–1746), first wife of above Philippe of France (1730–1733), Duke of Anjou Princess Marie Adélaïde...
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    which Saint Louis built within the Palais de la Cité at Paris between 1240 and 1248. Both buildings were built by Louis's favourite architect Pierre de Montreuil...
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    Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island), 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine, in central...
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    Literature. In 2009, the International Étienne Gilson Society was created “to promote the thought of Étienne Gilson and classical philosophy in the academy...
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    neighbouring communes of La Possession, Sainte-Marie, Sainte-Suzanne, Saint-André, and Bras-Panon. Saint-Denis was founded in 1669 by Étienne Regnault, the first...
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    Françoise-Marie Jacquelin (1621–1645) was an Acadian woman and wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. Françoise-Marie Jacquelin was born and baptized...
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    Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ də la ljø] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern...
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    daughter of Jacques Philippe de Choiseul, Duke of Stainville, and Thérèse de Clermont, and the niece of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, the chief minister...
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    reines à la fin du XVIe siècle : Louise de Lorraine et Marguerite de France, Saint-Étienne, Publications of the University of Saint-Étienne, 1995, p. 60...
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    commune was officially called Saint-Paul. Saint-Paul-de-Vence has long been a haven of the famous, mostly due to the La Colombe d'Or hotel, whose former...
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    In May 1440, he assaulted a high-ranking cleric in the church of Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte before seizing the local castle, thereby violating ecclesiastical...
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    Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre: collegial church Saint-Étienne (formerly collegial church Saint-Jacques) – Centre-Val de Loire Bourges: cathedral Saint-Étienne – Centre...
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    Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon (16 November 1725 – 4 March 1793) was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was...
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    Petitfils 1988. Rat 1959. Chabod, Marquis de Saint-Maurice, Thomas François (1910). Lettres sur la cour de Louis XIV (in French). Calmann-Levy. p. 31...
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