The Church of Saint Catherine is a parish church located in Loix, in the department of Charente-Maritime, the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the diocese...
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Loix (French pronunciation: [lwa]) is a commune in the south-west of France, located on the north coast of the Île de Ré, in the department of Charente-Maritime...
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The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise...
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(also archbishop of Marseille) 2006–2016 Bernard Housset 2016–Present Georges Colomb Saint Catherine Church of Loix Catholic Church in France Jean, p...
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Tongeren (category Municipalities of Limburg (Belgium))
Diocese of Liège, the church equivalent to the Civitas Tungrorum. This was the resting place of Saint Lambert of Maastricht, one of the last missionaries...
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Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (category People of the Reign of Terror)
de la Nation, par les loix fondamentales, par les ordonnances... [Despotism of the ministers of France, combatted by the rights of the Nation, by the fundamental...
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Baron d'Holbach (category Critics of the Catholic Church)
hommes, 1770 Système de la nature ou des loix du monde physique & du monde moral (The System of Nature, or Laws of the Moral and Physical World), published...
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Rochefort, Charente-Maritime (category Communes of Charente-Maritime)
France and one of only eight still in service world-wide the municipal theatre (la Coupe d'Or) the railway station Saint-Louis church Pierre Loti's house...
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Montesquieu (category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences)
1755. He was buried in the Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Montesquieu's philosophy of history minimized the role of individual persons and events. He expounded...
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Ypres (category Municipalities of West Flanders)
arrived. After the destruction of Thérouanne, Ypres became the seat of the new Diocese of Ypres in 1561, and Saint Martin's Church was elevated to cathedral...
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Charles-Philippe de Patin (category Old University of Leuven alumni)
Library of the Netherlands used to register de Patin's book Le Commerce maritime fondé sur le droit de la nature & des gens, sur l'autorité des loix civiles...
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Alcohol in New France (category Economic history of Canada)
of the Loix de Police... pp.10-13 [Unnamed Authors, 1771 An Abstract of the Loix de Police... pp.10-11 [Unnamed Authors, 1771 An Abstract of the Loix...
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Surgères (category Communes of Charente-Maritime)
part being reattached to the neighbouring commune of Saint-Germain-de-Marencennes. Romanesque church of Notre-Dame, built in the 16th and 17th centuries...
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subsequently invited by Catherine II and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences to travel to Russia to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from Lapland. Due...
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d'Holbach's (anonymous) materialist work Le Système de la Nature ou Des Loix du Monde Physique et du Monde Moral is produced in Neuchâtel. The last Cuman...
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La Flotte (category Communes of Charente-Maritime)
Medieval architecture, and maritime history. The Church of St. Catherine Fleet (or "Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria") Built in the 15th century. Listed...
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Ars-en-Ré (category Communes of Charente-Maritime)
Pinaud Cross on the Route de Saint-Clément (destroyed)(17th century) A Monumental Cross on N735 (1890) The Church of Saint-Étienne (12th century). Its...
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