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    The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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    Noël Jourda de Vaux (12 March 1705 in Château des Vaux au Puy-en-Velay – 14 September 1788 in Grenoble), comte de Vaux, seigneur d'Artiac was a French...
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  • Look up Vaux or vaux in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vaux may refer to: Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828), French chemist and pharmacist Bernard...
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    Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...
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    Roland Guérin de Vaux OP (17 December 1903 – 10 September 1971) was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead...
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    Inhabitants of Vaux-le-Pénil are called Penivauxois. Public schools in the commune include : three preschools : Romain Rolland, Gaston Dumont and Jean-Robert...
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    Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vaux-sur-Seulles, EHESS (in French). Population...
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  • plays, stand-up comedy, and in cinema. Jean-Claude Muaka was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, his family moved to Vaux-le-Pénil, in Seine-et-Marne, when he...
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    Saint-Jean-de-Vaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də vo]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern...
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  • Guy (died 21 March 1223) was the sixth Cistercian abbot of Vaux-de-Cernay from 1181 until 1210 and then the bishop of Carcassonne from 1212 until his death...
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    Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent...
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    Hermival-les-Vaux is a seventeenth century chateau that was classed as a Monument historique in 1927. Communes of the Calvados department "Répertoire national des...
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    the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (CNAC). Hôtel de Ville Châlons Cathedral Notre-Dame-en-Vaux church Cloister Notre-Dame-en-Vaux Interior view of Saint-Alpin...
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  • Retrieved January 19, 2018. Abbé Jean Depeyre (1932). Saint-Cyprien des-Vaux : pages d'histoire locale [Saint-Cyprien des-Vaux: local history pages] (in French)...
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    architect, American Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter, French Yitzhak Frenkel, Israeli French painter, father of modern Israeli art Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller,...
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    Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, FRS (/ˈbruː(ə)m ... ˈvoʊks/; 19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became...
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  • Captain du Mesny des Vaux. She took part in the Battle of Stromboli under Vilette Marsay, and in the Battle of Palermo. She was part of Jean Bart's fleet...
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    Vaux-sur-Aure (French pronunciation: [vo syʁ oʁ] , literally Vaux on Aure) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern...
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    collection. Marc Vaux, Portrait d'Aïcha, 19??, Paris, Centre Pompidou-MNAM/CCI-Bibliothèque Kandinsky, fonds Marc Vaux, inv. MV2551. Marc Vaux, Portrait d'Aïcha...
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    Synthèse des notes de chantier du Père Roland de Vaux OP. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus, Series Archaeologica 1. Fribourg. De Vaux 1996 = R. de Vaux, F...
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  • well-educated. In 1771 Cadet de Vaux succeeded his brother, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, as chief apothecary of the Hotel des Invalides. He then became...
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    (founded 1976) is a Belgian confectionery company, which has its head office in Vaux-sous-Chèvremont, a tiny village in the area of Liège. The company markets...
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    Châlons-en-Champagne, partly in the Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne and partly in the Collégiale Notre-Dame-en-Vaux. His final surviving painting...
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    receipt. He also began a medley of prose and poetry, entitled Le Songe de Vaux, on Fouquet's famous country house. It was about this time that his wife's...
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    in the Caveau des Gouverneurs, an underground gallery beneath the Cathédrale Saint-Louis-des-Invalides: Albert d'Amade (1856–1941) Jean-Toussaint Arrighi...
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    (1901–1985) in 1973. Its registered office is on the Rue de Moulin Neuf, Sente des Vaux-Ruelle aux Chevaux, Périgny-sur-Yerres, Val-de-Marne, with the secretariat...
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    and materials. The château incorporates elements inspired by the château Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Palace of Versailles. In 2015, the chateau was purchased...
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    arrondissement of Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913), Auguste Perret, 8th arrondissement of Paris Tour Montparnasse, architects Jean Saubot, Eugène Beaudouin...
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    either the French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte, were built by the essentially high-bourgeois—people but recently...
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    Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, where his tomb with its marble bust can still be seen. All three of his sons (Louis Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, and Jean-Louis...
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