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    Dorset Opera Festival is an annual country house opera festival combining amateur and professional performers, which takes place at Bryanston near Blandford...
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    to 1926. In the Middle Ages Mortain was the head of an important county (comté), reserved for the reigning house of Normandy. Around 1027 it was established...
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  • named Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset, Quebec, a parish in the province of Quebec St. Hilaire, Minnesota, a city in Pennington County Amable de Saint-Hilaire (1799–18...
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  • Neubourg, near Louviers, Eure) from Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, a Beaumont family cousin, as Comte de Meulan. He was Sire du Ponteaudemer, and...
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  • Governors Jean Le Comte, Governor (1649–1654) Louis Cacqueray de Valminière, Governor (1654–1658) Dubuc, Governor (1658) Jean Faudoas de Cérillac, Governor...
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    Thomas Hardy (category People from Dorchester, Dorset)
    Stuart Mill. He was introduced by his Dorset friend Horace Moule to the works of Charles Fourier and Auguste Comte. Mill's essay On Liberty was one of Hardy's...
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    to Lt. Col Sir William James of Dorset, son of Lt. Col Sir Charles Hamilton James (son of Charles Hamilton (styled Comte d'Arran in France), illegitimate...
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  • plays suggests he may have been personally acquainted with Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. Soon after the Restoration in 1660, Etherege wrote his comedy...
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    1794 Félicité Jean Louis de Durfort, Comte de Deyme (4 March 1752 – 10 March 1801) He inherited an estate at Sherborne, Dorset upon the death of his father...
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  • FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare. Her father was Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset. Her mother, Cecily, was the wealthiest heiress in England after succeeding...
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    Duchess of Dorset at Knole House in Kent, which had once been owned by Elizabeth I. She returned to London, where she found the Comte de Vaudreuil, and...
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    des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation. "Census Profile, 2016 Census Beauce-Sartigan, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec"....
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    Secrétaire de la Province, avec un mémoire, en date du onze novembre (1873) soumet au Conseil la résolution du Conseil Municipal du Comté de Compton, en...
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    the comte d'Artois, brother of the king, Philippe, duc de Chartres and the duc de Condé. Foreigners like the king of Poland and the duke of Dorset also...
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    1933. Rubio was 20, and the groom, a son of Jan Scholtens and Maria Le Comte, was 47. They separated, shortly afterwards, and they finally divorced,...
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  • Marquess of Dorset. Eleanor was an ancestor of the later Barons Arundell of Wardour. Eleanor Grey was a daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and...
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    That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Linnaeus placed this group in 1758 together...
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    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1859. —— (19 May 2011). "Beaufort, John, marquess of Dorset and marquess of Somerset (c. 1371–1410), soldier and administrator". Oxford...
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  • the village of Chaource in the Champagne region Comté — the eastern Franche-Comté region Crottin de Chavignol — the village of Chavignol, France in the...
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    President Grévy, with Jean de Reszke as Rodrigue. The staging was directed by Pedro Gailhard, with costumes designed by Comte Lepic, and sets by Eugène...
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  • p. 231 Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, comte Daru, Histoire de Bretagne, Tome premier, p. 407 François Manet, Histoire de la Petite-Bretagne, ou Bretagne Armorique...
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    Baphomet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    state now for the edification of the vulgar, for the satisfaction of M. le Comte de Mirville, for the justification of the demonologist Bodin, for the greater...
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    Yorktown, when the British fleet was driven off by the French Admiral, the Comte de Grasse, at the Battle of the Chesapeake. When he returned to the West Indies...
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    in the south. Moving rapidly through the country, Henry confronted the Comte d'Isle at the Battle of Auberoche and achieved a victory described as "the...
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    Harry Gordon Selfridge (category Burials in Dorset)
    Beatrice Selfridge (30 July 1901 – 1990) – she married twice; first to Comte Louis de Sibour and then to Frank L. Lewis Throughout their married life, Harry's...
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    François de Montmorency-Bouteville dueled François d'Harcourt Beuvron without fatality, but Montmorency-Bouteville's second, François de Rosmadec, Comte de Chappelles...
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    Baron Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor, and by Thomas Sackville, soon Earl of Dorset, who continued as Lord Treasurer. As a consequence, James was free to concentrate...
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    France – Auvergne, Corsica, Franche-Comté, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Lower Normandy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy, Poitou-Charentes Germany...
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    1381 – 27 December 1426), 1st Earl of Dorset from 1411, 1st Duke of Exeter from 1416, 1st Baron Lillebon and Comte d'Harcourt from 1418; legitimized in...
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