Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French: [ʒakaʁ]; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important...
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Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller....
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Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers...
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Marie-Joseph Blaise de Chénier (French pronunciation: [maʁi ʒozɛf blɛz də ʃenje]; 11 February 1764 – 10 January 1811) was a French poet, dramatist and...
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Louis XVI at the age of 19, and Marie Antoinette becomes queen consort at age 18. Marie Antoinette's brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, comes to...
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Correspondance secrète entre Marie-Thérèse et le comte de Mercy-Argenteau, avec les lettres de Marie-Thérèse et de Marie-Antoinette (in French). Vol. 3...
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Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of...
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Marie-Léonie Paradis, PSSF (12 May 1840 – 3 May 1912), born Virginie-Alodie Paradis but raised as Élodie Paradis, was a French-Canadian Catholic religious...
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Mount Takahe (category Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land)
Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It...
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Marie-Josèphe dite Angélique (died June 21, 1734) was the name given to a Portuguese-born black slave in New France by her last owners. She was tried...
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Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (Chinese: 錢德明; pinyin: Qián Démíng; February 8, 1718 – October 8, 1793) was a French Jesuit priest who worked in Qing China, during...
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Marie-Thérèse Charlotte (19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only...
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Joseph Henri Marie de Premare (1666 - 1736) was a french jesuit. In 1724, after the Yongzheng Emperor virtually banned Christianity over the Chinese Rites...
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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (redirect from Marquis Lafayette Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier)
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20...
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Marie-Joseph Lagrange (born Albert Marie-Henri Lagrange; 7 March 1855 – 10 March 1938) was Dominican priest and founder of the École Biblique in Jerusalem...
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XV of France and his popular wife, Queen Marie Leczinska. Isabella's father was Philip, Duke of Parma.) Joseph loved his bride, Isabella, finding her both...
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Marie-Joseph Bissonnier (25 December 1940 – 27 June 2023) was a French dental surgeon and politician of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and the Union...
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Marie Joseph Anatole Élie de Riquet et de Caraman, 19th Prince de Chimay (4 July 1858 – 25 July 1937), known as Joseph de Caraman-Chimay, the younger,...
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canonized together. Louis Joseph Aloys Stanislaus Martin was the third of five children of Pierre-François Martin and Marie-Anne-Fanny Boureau. All his...
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inventor. Marie-Joseph-Denis Farcot was born in 1798. His father was Joseph Jean Chrysostome Farcot, a former teacher at the college of Juilly, Seine-et-Marne...
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Émile Joseph Marie Piétri (25 February 1820 – 4 January 1902), known as Joachim Pietri, was a French lawyer and public servant who was prefect of several...
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Chevalier de Saint-Georges (redirect from Joseph Boulogne)
seriously as a child. Banat discounted François-Joseph Fétis's claim that Saint-Georges studied violin with Jean-Marie Leclair. Some of his technique was said...
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Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie; born 11 November 1981), is the heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg...
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Joseph Marie Martin Van den Gheyn (1854–1913) was a Belgian Jesuit, Bollandist and chief conservator of the Royal Library of Belgium. Van den Gheyn was...
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Yves Congar (redirect from Yves Marie Joseph Cardinal Congar)
Yves Marie-Joseph Congar OP (French pronunciation: [iv maʁi ʒozɛf kɔ̃ɡaʁ]; 13 April 1904 – 22 June 1995) was a French Dominican friar, priest, and theologian...
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Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (French pronunciation: [dɔnasjɛ̃ maʁi ʒozɛf də vimœʁ də ʁɔʃɑ̃bo]; 7 April 1755 – 20 October 1813)...
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Archduchess Marie-Astrid of Austria (born Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg on 17 February 1954) is the elder daughter and eldest child of Jean, Grand...
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de Mercœur et Penthièvre. Prior to succeeding his father in 1669, he was known as the duc de Penthièvre. He was raised by his aunt, Marie Anne Mancini...
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Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, born Joseph Marie Degérando (29 February 1772 in Lyon, France – 10 November 1842 in Paris), was a French jurist, philanthropist...
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Lawalrée, Andre; Duvosquel, Jean-Marie (1996). Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1759–1840: La Famille, L'Oeuvre, ("Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1759–150: his life and...
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