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    Jacques de Vitry (Jacobus de Vitriaco, c. 1160/70 – 1 May 1240) was a French canon regular who was a noted theologian and chronicler of his era. He was...
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    resulted in Vitry-le-François receiving the king's name as part of its own name. At the beginning of World War I in August 1914, Joseph Joffre established...
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  • Count Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt (1895-1977) was a French aristocrat and business executive. He served as the chief executive officer of Pechiney from...
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    extensive was the Canal latéral à la Marne, which runs 67 km (42 mi) between Vitry-le-François and Dizy. Downstream of this were several more, including the...
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    Charles Joseph Marty-Laveaux (13 April 1823, in Paris – 11 July 1899, in Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French literary scholar. He is best known for his La Pléiade...
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    English Channel for an evacuation to Britain. However, the French commander Joseph Joffre maintained good order in his retreating army and was able to reinforce...
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  • Samuel of Dampierre and the paternal great-grandson of Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry. Through his maternal grandmother, Elhanan Jaffe of Dampierre was the great-grandson...
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    Rabbi Akiva (redirect from Ben Joseph Akiba)
    ha-Maor, 1:1, 2, § 1, ed. Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, p. 82; also Maḥzor Vitry, p. 112 Under the title, Ein ganz neie Maase vun dem Tanna R. Akiba, Lemberg...
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    Vitry-sur-Seine...
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    René-Xavier Prinet (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    René François Xavier Prinet (31 December 1861, Vitry-le-François – 26 January 1946, Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French painter and illustrator. Born to...
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  • (Rabbeinu Tam) Margolioth family Hannah bat Meir & Samuel ben Simhah of Vitry Isaac ben Samuel (RI HaZaken) Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre (Rabbeinu Elkhanan)...
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    1230) (1206/07, 1227) Jean Halgrin (1180–1237) (1227, 1230) Jacques de Vitry (1160/70–1240) (1228, 1237) Rinaldo Conti (1185–1261) (1227, 1240) Elected...
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  • was lord of Montmorency, Écouen, Damville, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, de Vitry-en-Brie, and de la Tour de Chaumont. He was the son of Charles of Montmorency...
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    therefore, marched from Rheims to Châlons, Schwarzenberg from Arcis-sur-Aube to Vitry, in search of Napoleon: instead of falling back before him at some distance...
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    triumph, when he had just been declared king by Chilperic's subjects at Vitry-en-Artois, he was struck down by two assassins working for Fredegund. He...
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    +1190, followed soon afterwards by Guyot de Provins in +1205 and Jacques de Vitry in +1269. All other European claims have been excluded by detailed study...
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    François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (17 December 1772 – 17 November 1838) was a French physician. François-Joseph-Victor Broussais was born in Saint-Malo...
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    are still more to be condemned?" The reference was to Cardinal Jacques de Vitry, who met her and recounted that she would throw herself into burning furnaces...
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    during the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830). He was born at Sompuis, near Vitry-le-François (in modern-day Marne), the son of Anthony Royer, a small businessman...
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    During the 12th century, the word appears quite frequently. In the Mahzor Vitry, the kingdom of Ashkenaz is referred to chiefly in regard to the ritual...
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    spelled Jorgia. Lore-based theories were given by traveller Jacques de Vitry, who explained the name's origin by the popularity of St. George among Georgians...
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  • Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663–1745) Jan August Vitásek (1770–1839) Philippe de Vitry (1291–1361) Franco Vittadini (1884–1948) Jāzeps Vītols (1863–1948) Antonio...
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  • rulings. he is also mentioned once in Haggahot Maimuniyyot. In Machzor Vitry he is described as the person who announced the death of Rabbi Yosef, the...
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    fortress garrisons to his army. Accordingly, he moved northeast toward Vitry-le-François with the intention of continuing east along the river Marne...
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    ambassador Nicolas-Louis de l'Hospital, Bishop of Beauvais and Marquis of Vitry were forced to leave the country. The failure of this plan prompted the...
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  • (Rabbeinu Tam) Margolioth family [Hannah bat Meir] & Samuel ben Simhah of Vitry Isaac ben Samuel (RI HaZaken) Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre (Rabbeinu Elkhanan)...
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  • enumerated by Samuel Kohn's Mordecai ben Hillel (1878), p. 137; in Maḥzor Vitry, and in many other codices and compendiums. "Haggahot Mordechai," Sanhedrin...
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    Fifth and Sixth Crusades is well represented in the works of Jacques de Vitry, Oliver of Paderborn and Roger of Wendover, and the Arabic works of Badr...
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    of the prayer very similar to the one recited today appears in Machzor Vitry, before finding its way into the Zohar and modern prayerbooks. The exhortation...
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    2023. Le Paige 1978, p. 38. Reinhard 1983b, p. 57. Reinhard 1985, p. 302. Vitry 2020, p. 517. Ceruti 2016, p. 73. Rudolph 1955, p. 156. Geographischer Monatsbericht...
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