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    Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique (USJB), also referred to by its member organizations as the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique (lit. "Saint-Jean-Baptiste...
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    The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste) is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests...
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    New England on February 26, 1899, and by May 7, 1900 the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amerique had been established in Woonsocket, with Holyoke's president...
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    Robert (1958). Histoire des Franco-Américains. Montreal: Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique. Lacroix, Patrick (2016). "A Church of Two Steeples: Catholicism...
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    Fait La Force" was the motto of and adorned emblems of the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amérique, at one time the largest French Catholic fraternal organization...
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  • Association des Veillette d'Amérique inc Veillet River Calvaire de la Rivière-à-Veillet Association des Veillet/te d'Amérique (Veillet/te families Association)...
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    The L'Union Saint Jean-Baptiste d'Amerique is a historic building at 1 Social Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Built in 1926, it housed a fraternal...
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    leading light of French polar research, in the lineage of Commander Jean-Baptiste Charcot, captain of the Pourquoi-Pas ?, he is now living in Dieppe,...
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  • between the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Holyoke and counterparts in other cities to form the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique, a Franco-American...
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    1, 1927, at a fork in a main road in Southbridge by the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amérique, as he was one of the society's founders. The Gatineau bust...
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  • From 1946 to 1974, Goguen was the President General of Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique, a national fraternal order and social club for Franco-Americans...
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    the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Holyoke organized a national cultural and benefit society in 1899, the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d’Amérique, Woonsocket...
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  • Periods Parti patriote – Fils de la liberté – Frères Chasseurs – Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society – Alliance laurentienne – Rassemblement pour l'indépendance...
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  • and collections of poems and won the 1980 Prix Duvernay from the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. Lalonde was professor of the history of civilizations at...
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    François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Hirondelle d'Amérique". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 6....
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  • English descent. Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste - Founded March 27, 1900 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amerique for Roman Catholic...
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    international politics from 1976 to 1976 and was a member of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society's committee on international relations. In the Quebec general...
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  • Historical Society and Mr. Henri-T. Ledoux, president of the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique, who came to Quebec to give the right hour on the situation...
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    suffered in a bar fight several weeks earlier. His funeral was held at St. Jean Baptiste Church in Lowell, Massachusetts, and he was buried at Edson Cemetery...
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    1658. In the name of the King of France, les Saintes were acquired in the royal domain by Jean-Baptiste Colbert when the French West India Company was...
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  • Française en Amérique, la société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal et l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier", in Francophonies d'Amérique, 17 (2004) p. 108-117 Martin...
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    fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the French made regular payments to Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and other natives for British scalps. Once the Acadians refused...
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    Christine Barbe, winemaker Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707–1747), cellist, composer Gérard Bayo (born 1936), writer and poet Jean Bertheroy (1858-1927), writer...
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    Napoleon (redirect from Jean d'Epee)
    received no explicit orders from Paris. The army was left in the charge of Jean-Baptiste Kléber. Unknown to Bonaparte, the Directory had sent him orders to return...
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    student leaders Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini, café owner Joseph Ortiz, and lawyer Jean-Baptiste Biaggi staged an insurrection in the Algerian...
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    Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778–1783). Paris: éditions Auguste Picard. OCLC 7842336. Castex, Jean-Claude (2004). Dictionnaire des Batailles...
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    and restored in 1821 by the Supreme Council of the Isles d'Amérique founded in 1802 in Saint-Domingue, the modern Haiti) In 1894, the Supreme Council...
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    Rochambeau, the Governor of Saint Lucia, the French Consul in Boston and a colonial trader from Saint-Domingue, Jean Baptiste Rivière de la Souchère (known...
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  • On June 15, a bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Sherbrooke (SSJBS). (The SSJBS had invited Pierre Trudeau to preside...
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    Battle of St. Lucia (category History of British Saint Lucia)
    captured the British island of Dominica. On 4 November, French Admiral Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, Comte d'Estaing sailed for the West Indies from...
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