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    The Consular Guard (French: Garde consulaire), also known as the Guard of the Consuls (Garde des consuls), was a French military unit responsible for the...
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    origin in the Consular Guard (Garde des consuls), created on 28 November 1799 by the union of the Guard of the Directory (Garde du Directoire exécutif) and...
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    de Babylone. A decree of 28 November reorganized the Garde du Directoire as the Garde des Consuls, but it makes no mention of the Chasseurs. By a decree...
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    Notre-Dame de la Garde (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam d(ə) la ɡaʁd]; lit.: Our Lady of the Guard), known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère (French...
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    men. After the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, Bonaparte created the Garde des Consuls, which included a company of horse artillery. This company particularly...
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    constitution of the Year VIII a civil one. He eschewed his general's uniform. The consuls had their official state uniforms of scarlet velvet from Lyon embroidered...
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    The Armée des émigrés (English: Army of the Émigrés) were counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of royalist émigrés, with the...
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    Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (French: Grenadiers à Cheval de La Garde Impériale) was a heavy cavalry regiment in the Consular, then Imperial Guard...
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    Alain. Encyclopedie des Uniformes Napoleoniens 1800–1815. Quatuor, 2003. Charmy. Splendeur des Uniformes de Napoleon: La Garde Imperiale a Cheval. Charles...
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    with M. Vallière, France's consul general in Algeria. She also carried dispatches for the naval station and French consuls in the Levant. He saw aristocratic...
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    disintegrated military infrastructure. The Gendarmerie became the Garde d'Haïti in 1928; the Garde formed the core of Haiti's armed forces after the United States...
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    small republic with its own fleet and army and was administered by two consuls and 12 elected councillors. In 1558, the city's captain Honorat Coste was...
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    André Du Ryer, Lord of La Garde-Malezair (b. Marcigny, Bourgogne, c. 1580; d. 1660 or 1672) was a French orientalist who produced the third western translation...
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    the cities of Provence became virtually autonomous. They were ruled by consuls, formally under the Counts of Provence but with considerable autonomy....
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  • diplomat, and pioneer of Fascism in Spain. Director and founder of the avant-garde magazine La Gaceta Literaria (1927–1932), his work has been categorized...
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    "gendarme de la garde du roi" by king Louis XVI. Having received music and musical composition lessons, he joined the orchestra Le Concert des Amateurs; culminating...
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    Sainte-Hélène: le garde-mémoire de Napoléon "Je vis depuis trente ans isolé au milieu de l'Atlantique Sud et je suis parfaitement épanoui" Le consul de France...
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    wide jurisdiction by trying many cases. The town council was led by four consuls, with the first reserved for a lawyer, the second for a merchant, the third...
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    Ancien Consul, Ancien Grand Garde de l’Orfévrerie-Joyalerie, Doyen des Marguilliers, Ancien Commissaire des Pauvres : Administrateur de l’Hospital des Petites-Maisons...
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  • 1724-1730. Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix [fr], 1736-1740 Palais des Consuls in Rouen [fr], 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944) Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles...
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    October 2015. Perry, Gillian (1995). Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde: Modernism and 'feminine Art' Art, 1900 to the Late 1920s. Manchester University...
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  • He became a lieutenant of the 1st regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale on 20 July 1810. He campaigned in Germany in 1810 and 1811, and...
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  • - Morocco - Pg 74 Plantet, Eugène (1893). "Correspondance des Beys de Tunis et des consuls de France avec la Cour: 1577-1830". "Les Deys 2". exode1962...
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  • The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) is an order of knighthood of France for academics and cultural and educational figures. The...
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    overlordship, until these rights were resigned to the local Bishops and Consuls in 1135. With the German rulers at a distance, Avignon set up an autonomous...
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    Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat, were also at the avant-garde of artistic evolutions, as well as the fauvist artists Henri Matisse, André...
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    assassination attempt on the First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, in Paris on 24 December 1800. It followed the conspiration des poignards of 10 October 1800...
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  • Victoire de Villeneuve des Arcs and of Louis-Antoine de Martelly de Chautard, an official of Toulon. He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 6 July 1750...
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    in the Concession was maintained by the French Concession Police or La Garde municipale de la Concession française. Just as the British employed many...
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    established the Imperial Guard. The compagnie des chasseurs became the régiment des chasseurs à cheval de la Garde impériale, organized into four squadrons...
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