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    Sassenage, Tour sans venin, Pont de Claix, Grottes de la Balme, and Pierre Percée sites. Mont Aiguille. Fontaine Ardente. Lesdiguières Bridge. Pierre Percée...
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  • "Nyons Bridge". "Pont-Neuf". "Lesdiguières Bridge". "Pont Saint-Roch". "Gignac Bridge". "Vieille-Brioude Bridge". "Pont de Pierre". "Pont Charles-Albert"...
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    Soyer [fr]; the Pont de Moulins, from 1756 to 1770 by Louis de Règemorte [fr]; the Pont de Saumur, from 1756 to 1768 by Jean-Baptiste de Voglie; the Pont de Neuilly...
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    Grenoble fell to Lesdiguières after more than three weeks under siege. In 1591, having become governor of Grenoble, Lesdiguières immediately ordered...
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    months of assaults, Lesdiguières defeated the Ligue and took back Grenoble. He became the leader of the entire province. Lesdiguières became the lieutenant-general...
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    between Henri, Duke of Rohan, and Louis XIII, through his officer, Marshal Lesdiguières; it was signed by Rohan on 22 August 1622. The inhabitants of Montpellier...
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    Château de Conflans (in Charenton-le-Pont) in the company of Paule-Françoise de Gondi, duchess of Lesdiguieres, who alone was faithful to him. Saint-Simon...
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    1639 Grollée (de) Extinct Vizille Dauphiné 38 Vizille 1606 Bonne de Lesdiguières (de) Extinct Volx (also known as Vaux, Vaulx) Provence 04 1652 Valavoire...
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    the nobility, that of the 'Razats', who could count on the support of Lesdiguières and other Protestant rebels, and the faction of Catholic notables that...
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    Charles, sire de Créquy, prince de Poix, comte de Sault, then duc de Lesdiguières, pair and marshal of France. Gilbert Filhet, seigneur de la Curée and...
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    pavilions named respectively after the Duke of Lesdiguières and Henri de La Trémoille (Pavillon Lesdiguières and Pavillon La Trémoille). Further west are...
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    during the brief civil war in 1580, leading it into Dauphiné against Lesdiguières where he captured the Protestant stronghold of La Mure in October, while...
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    and inventor of the sign language alphabet François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières of France (1543–1626), Constable of France Sidonia von Borcke of Pomerania...
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    Taulanne. On 30 January 1586, the Baron of Allemagne [fr] and the Duke of Lesdiguières tried to surprise the town. The sneak attack was repulsed and the Baron...
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    to the Catholic Church. In memory of this, François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, the Constable of France, himself a convert in 1622, supported the idea...
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    and 1577. In 1578, Lesdiguières besieged Ambel; Bertrand III Raimbault de Simiane, Baron of Gordes, dislodged him but Lesdiguières returned and took the...
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    Hautes-Alpes [fr] houses the mausoleum of François de Bonne (Duke of Lesdiguières, Constable of the Haut-Alpin) carved in the black marble of the Champsaur [fr]...
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    retains today in the seventeenth century by François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, the last Connétable de France. A hundred hectares of greens, sheets...
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    also a crossroads, particularly important when François de Bonne of Lesdiguières, steward of Dauphiné, returned to the town of Saint-Bonnet. Les Baraques...
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    castle at Barraux by the Duke of Savoie in 1597. After its completion, Lesdiguière captured the castle for the king of France: Henri IV In 1600, Henri IV...
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    bastions and ditches. The fort was captured soon after its completion by Lesdiguières, the Constable of Dauphiné. A few enhancements were undertaken by the...
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    several members were famous, including Charles 1st (1578–1638), Duke of Lesdiguieres, Lieutenant General of the Dauphine, whom the street is named after....
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