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    Jean-François Marmontel (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa maʁmɔ̃tɛl]; 11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of...
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  • François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713) was a French orientalist. De la Croix was born in Paris, the son of the Arabic interpreter of the French court and...
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    Foire du Trône before the Pelouse de Reuilly. Jean Nagle (1989). "La ville de l'absolutisme triomphant : De François Ier à Louis XV". In Louis Bergeron...
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    marché global de performance | CCI Business Grand Paris". grandparis.ccibusiness.fr. "Le chantier de la future Arena 2 lancé Porte de la Chapelle". CNEWS...
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    The Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from...
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    Laffilard, archivist of the Marine, as the French Navy was known, Arnaud de La Porte was born around 1706, near Bayonne, (no doubt in the family home at Lembeye...
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    Loire-Atlantique Sarah El Haïry prend du galon et devient porte-parole du Modem, France Bleu. Jean-Noël Barrot devient secrétaire général du MoDem, Le Figaro...
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    Jean-François Copé (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa kɔpe]; born 5 May 1964) is a French politician serving as Mayor of Meaux since 1995 with an interruption...
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  • Joseph de La Porte, (baptised 19 January 1714 in Belfort – died 19 December 1779) was an 18th-century French priest, literary critic, poet and playwright...
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  • Francois-Jean-Gabriel de La Porte du Theil (16 July 1742 in Paris – 28 May 1815) was a French historian. He played a role in the early attempts to decipher...
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    The Porte Saint-Antoine was one of the gates of Paris. There were two gates named the Porte Saint-Antoine, both now demolished, of which the best known...
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    Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (Corsican: Oraziu Francescu Bastianu Sebastiani di A Porta; 11 November 1771 – 20 July 1851) was a French...
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  • traditionnelle ? » (Jean-François Dutertre) "Jean-François Dutertre, la générosité d'un engagement d'artiste". IRMA : Centre d'information et de ressources pour...
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    (1911). "François Rabelais". The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 25 November 2018 – via newadvent.org. Jean de La Bruyère...
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    part to the interest of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, himself a dedicated collector of books. The site in the Rue de la Harpe becoming inadequate, the...
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    (360 ft) cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe, and was one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. The...
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    habitant du quartier La forêt de l'adieu (1952) - Baptiste Monsieur Taxi (1952) - François Bille de clown (1952) - Gaston Lemeunier Drôle de noce (1952) - Paullaud...
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    de cette ville, Baudin, 1860, 354 p, pages 45 to 47 (link). La Porte taillée, 19 siècles d’histoire on L'Est Républicain. Hector Tonon, Jean-François...
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    last word in this debate. In the 1845 edition of his treatise La musique mise à la porte de tout le monde, he describes the word "fantastique" saying that...
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  • of Jeanne Elisabeth, daughter of Jean-François de La Porte [fr], marquis de Presles, and her husband Louis Drummond de Melfort [fr] (died 1788), a grandson...
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    Mathieu-François Pidansat Mairobert (20 February 1727 – 27 March 1779) was a French writer. He was the son of François Pierre Pidansat, bailiff of the...
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    Prix Goncourt de la Biographie Edmonde Charles-Roux, after a former president of the Goncourt Academy. 1980 – Jean Lacouture, François Mauriac 1981 –...
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  • À seulement 18 ans, Malik Frikah entre dans le cinéma français par la grande porte. [At only 18 years old, Malik Frikah enters French cinema through the...
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    Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. In 2017, it had a population of...
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  • 1988: Elle et lui by François Margolin 1989: Le Porte-plume by Marie-Christine Perrodin 1990: Elli Fat Man by Michel Such 1991: La Vie des morts by Arnaud...
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    The Halle Gate (French: Porte de Hal, pronounced [pɔʁt də al]; Dutch: Hallepoort) is a former medieval city gate and the last vestige of the second walls...
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    d'Architecture. Born Nicolas-François Blondel at Ribemont in the Picardy region of France, he was baptized on 15 June 1618. His father was François-Guillaume Blondel...
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    boundaries. To replace the old gateway of the Porte Saint-Denis, Louis XIV commanded architect François Blondel and the sculptor Michel Anguier to build...
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    (French: Force d'Intervention de la Police nationale or FIPN). The first BRI, BRI-PP was created in Paris in 1964. François le Mouël, a police commissary...
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    Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995. Part of François Mitterrand's Grands Projets, the Cité de la Musique...
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