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    Pontoise for Évreux at the age of nineteen. He was at the battle of Fleurus in 1690 as a surgeon. While still a surgeon in 1691, he was in Paris when he took...
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  • François Joseph le Mercier (4 October 1604 – 12 June 1690) was a prominent French Jesuit in the early missions to New France and the Huron people. He was...
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  • hôtesse de l'air (written by Gos), in Spirou n°1663 (February 26, 1970) - 1690 (March 3, 1970) À un cheveux de la catastrophe (written by Gos), in Spirou...
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    cangiando loco" was used by Franz Liszt in his suite for piano Années de pèlerinage: Deuxième année: Italie under the erroneous title "Canzonetta del Salvator...
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    touchant une lumière extraordinaire qui paroît dans le Ciel depuis quelques années ("Letter to Mr. Cassini concerning the extraordinary light that has appeared...
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    scellé du 21 décembre 1761, Y.11077. Marie-Catherine Vignal Souleyreau, Correspondance du cardinal de Richelieu : inédits, années 1632 et 1633 Texte...
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    three children: Agnès-Suzanne Houasse (1674-1719), married on 18 September 1690 with Nicolas Coustou (1658-1733); Michel-Ange Houasse (1680-1730), a painter...
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  • 1689. Later that year he commanded during part of the Siege of Derry. In 1690 he fought bravely at the Battle of the Boyne, where he was taken prisoner...
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    the figure of the Earth before the publication of Newton's Principia. In 1690 Huygens published his De Causa Gravitatis, which contains an investigation...
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    Marie-Elisabeth et de Philippe d'Orléans, Recueil de pièces authentiques, Années 1792, 1793 et 1794, De Mat, imprimeur-libraire, Bruxelles, 1821, p. 473...
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    2017. "Le professeur Roubaud (1877-1951) à Louis-le-Grand, la khâgne des années folles (II)". devirisillustribusblog. 6 May 2018. Olivier Rollot (26 January...
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    on King William's artillery train shortly before the Siege of Limerick (1690). In January 1691 James II ennobled him for this achievement making him the...
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    (born 2000), Swiss 2020 Olympic swimmer Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest (1690–1766), military engineer, physicist and cartographer Giorgio Mondini (born...
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    Indians as workers, contributed to ethnic diversity in the population. From 1690, most of the non-Europeans on the island were enslaved. Of the 80,000 slaves...
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    Hooke for the discovery of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (ca. 1665). Around 1690, Cassini was the first to observe differential rotation within Jupiter's...
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    Wilde, who came to Ireland with King William of Orange's invading army in 1690, and numerous Anglo-Irish ancestors. On his mother's side, Wilde's ancestors...
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  • founded. 1681 – City annexed by Louis XIV of France. 1684 – Citadel built. 1690 – Barrage Vauban opened. 1697 – French annexation recognised by the Holy...
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    of Le Pyrrhonisme du sage) Online text Nouvelles considérations sur les années climatériques, la longueur de la vie de l’homme, la propagation du genre...
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    "War of the League of Augsburg", the Grand Prior served in Flanders. In 1690 he fought at the victorious Battle of Fleurus as a colonel under Luxembourg...
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    Motteville (regency of Anne of Austria); Ézéchiel Spanheim (reign of Louis XIV, 1690); Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (reign of Louis XIV); Marie de Rabutin-Chantal,...
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    (1687–1689); François (born 1688); Felix (born 1689); Catherine Diderot (born 1690). Didier Diderot married on 19 January 1712 in Chassigny Angélique Vigneron...
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    ISSN 0266-6286. Volney, C-F (1807). Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte: pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785 …. Paris: Paris: Chez Courcier, imprimeur-libraire. p...
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    neglected by the biographers and more influential amateurs. Between 1660 and 1690 only Poussin and Rubens were taken seriously...and later generations drew...
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    Couplet (1731). "Sur les voûtes". Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences, année 1729. Avec les mémoires de mathématique & de physique tirez des registres...
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    1631). Compagnies franches de la Marine (Free Marine Companies) created in 1690. Each company was tasked to guard a military harbor and its immediate coastline...
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    Militaire. pp. 109–117. Brodin, Alfred (1969). Le Prytanée pendant les années d'occupation [The Prytanée during the years of occupation] (in French)....
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    peintre flamand qui a travaillé à Paris, où il est mort il y a quelques années. Il a réussi dans les petites figures qu'il a dessinées & qu'il a très-bien...
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    comte d'Avaux en pays étranger, où ses ambassades l'avaient tenu bien des années à reprises, il ne put se réssoudre à se défaire, en ses retours ci, ni de...
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    1898, p. 430 Lachèvre 1921, volume II, p. XVIII Viau 1855, p. 14 Furetière 1690, p. 903 Le Bret 1657 Bargy 2008, p. 12 Ménage 1694, p. 101 Alcover 2004,...
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    was published in 1755 in the Ephémérides des Mouvemens Célestes, pour dix années, 1755–1765, and whose full version was published in 1757 in Astronomiæ Fundamenta...
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