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    (to a libretto by Ionesco), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles for baritone voice, piano, and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano...
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    Vains is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of the Manche department "Répertoire national des élus: les...
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    Maurice Arnold de Forest (9 January 1879 – 6 October 1968) was an early motor racing driver, aviator and Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. He...
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  • Sir Maurice Abbot (1565–1642) was an English merchant, Governor of the East India Company (1624–1638), and a politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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    Maurice Frankenhuis (February 24, 1894 – September 22, 1969) was a Jewish Dutch businessman, historian, researcher, author, collector, numismatist, Holocaust...
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    drawings prepared by Maurice Gabriel, an architect from Argentan. At the end of the 18th century, Alexis Le Veneur, vicomte de Tillières (1746–1833)...
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    against the dominant doctrine emphasizing "offensive spirit". De Gaulle stressed how Maurice de Saxe had banned volley fire, how French armies of the Napoleonic...
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    Maurice II de Craon (c. 1132–1196) was Lord of Craon, Governor of Anjou and Maine under Henry II, a military figure and Anglo-Norman of the 12th century...
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  • musical adaptation, and the 2017 live-action and computer animation remake. Maurice is the village inventor and Belle's father. However, most of the villagers...
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    Brittany. She was a daughter of nobleman Maurice IV Montaigu of Belleville and Palluau (1263–1304) and Létice de Parthenay of Parthenay (1276–?). As a seigneur...
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    Daladier and Maurice Gamelin (commander-in-chief) were under attack in the aftermath of the Allied defeat in Norway, and had this happened de Gaulle, who...
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    Maurice of Savoy (10 January 1593 – 3 October 1657, Turin) was an Italian nobleman, politician and cardinal. He was the fourth son of Charles Emmanuel...
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    donc rien d'un héroïsme vain. Frale, Barbara (2004). "The Chinon chart – Papal absolution to the last Templar, Master Jacques de Molay". Journal of Medieval...
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    Alexandre Dumas, père (1848) (ISBN 1-58963-209-5) "The Queen's Necklace", by Maurice Leblanc (1905) (An Arsène Lupin Story) Marie Antoinette, starring Norma...
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    Éamon de Valera (/ˈeɪmən ˌdɛvəˈlɛərə, -ˈlɪər-/, Irish: [ˈeːmˠən̪ˠ dʲɛ ˈwalʲəɾʲə]; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901...
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  • the Société Nationale de Musique in April of that year, with the tenor Maurice Bàges as soloist. In its orchestral form the song was included in Fauré's...
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    Press, ISBN 978-0-8122-4447-2. Termeau, Maurice (1945), Gilles de Raiz dit à tort Barbebleue et la Maison de Sillé (1404-1440) (in French), Laval: Imprimerie-librairie...
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    1951-1956 de Marguerite Yourcenar. Texte établi et annoté par Colette Gaudin et Rémy Poignault avec la collaboration de Joseph Brami et Maurice Delcroix ;...
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    denouement of the political conflict between her stepson, stadtholder Maurice, Prince of Orange (William the Silent's son by his second wife Anna of...
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    Luis de León OESA (Belmonte, Cuenca, 1527 – Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Castile, Spain, 23 August 1591), was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    Charpentier et al. 1985, p. 51. Trudel, Marcel (1963). Histoire de la Nouvelle-France : les vaines tentatives 1524–1603. Fides. p. 307. Mathieu, Jacques (September...
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    Tiberius II Constantine (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    response to that defeat, Tiberius replaced Justinian with the future emperor Maurice. During the truce that Tiberius concluded with Khosrau, he busily enhanced...
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    Paroles de bourreau [The Executioner's Tale] (in French). Editions Imago. ISBN 978-2-84952-405-3. Bessette-Meyssonnier. Retrieved 2023-03-24. Maurice Meyssonnier:...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    search in vain for the polite formula appropriate to the nature of our relationship. Please allow me, Professor, not to use any. — Maurice Tschoffen,...
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    egocentric to the point of megalomania" and "brilliant and vain" and "flamboyant". After de Lattre's arrival in Vietnam, Việt Minh General Giap proclaimed...
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    Preface of Destin de Le Brix by José le Boucher, Nouvelle Librairie Française, 1932. Preface of Grandeur et servitude de l'aviation by Maurice Bourdet, Paris:...
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  • into French in 1535 by Maurice Scève as La Déplourable fin de Flamecte. The influence of Grisel y Mirabella can be seen in Lope de Vega's work La Ley Ejecutada...
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    John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    essential contribution to the reform of the Dutch States Army by his cousin Maurice. John served in the Dutch States Army, was colonel general of the Palatinate...
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    Grotius had vainly tried to convince the commanders of the States Army garrison in Utrecht (who were paid by Holland) to disobey Maurice. Oldenbarnevelt...
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  • remorseful" so long as it works), and "Maison de Lunes" (in which he recruits the asylum owner to have Maurice committed). In the Melbourne stage production...
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