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    Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733) was a French Navy officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic...
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  • Independence Jacques II de Forbin-Janson (1680–1741), Archbishop of Arles Joseph de Forbin (died 1728) Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin (1779–1841), French...
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  • Claire de Forbin La Barben (née Charles-Roux; 10 April 1908 – 1992) fought with the French Resistance during World War II. Married to the last marquess...
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    Forbin (D620) is a large anti-air frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of the Horizon class. Her first task is protecting aircraft carriers, capital ships...
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    Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, comte de Forbin (19 August 1777 in La Roque-d'Anthéron, Bouches-du-Rhône – 23 February 1841 in Paris) was the French painter...
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    Palamède de Forbin (died 1508), seigneur of Solliès, nicknamed "the Great", was president of the Chambre des comptes and counsellor to René d'Anjou. He...
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    Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson, C.P.M. (3 November 1785 – 12 July 1844), was a French aristocrat and prelate who was a founder of...
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    Toussaint de Forbin-Janson also known simply as Cardinal de Janson (1 October 1631, Mane – 24 March 1713) was a French Catholic Cardinal and Bishop of...
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  • Charles Gaspard Hyacinthe de Forbin La Barben (Aix-en-Provence, 26 February 1741 — ?) was a French Navy officer. He fought in the Indian Ocean under Suffren...
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    the Venus to the king for the Louvre and the comte de Forbin, the curator of the Louvre, reimbursed de Rivière for the cost of the sculpture. The name has...
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    were Père la Chaise, the king's confessor, the Marquis de Montchevreuil, the Chevalier de Forbin and Alexandre Bontemps, a valet with whom the groom was...
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  • where he assisted the increasingly debilitated Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin. Upon Forbin's death he was appointed directeur général des beaux-arts...
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  • sculptor. He is best known for the scandal in which he opposed Auguste de Forbin, the director general of the royal museums Born on rue Saint-Denis in Paris...
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    visit to Goa between 7–14 January 2011. The carrier Charles de Gaulle and the frigate Forbin also paid a goodwill visit to Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates...
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    back to Isle de France to be returned to France and court-martialed. He also dismissed Maurville of Artésien, Forbin of Vengeur and De Ruyter of Pourvoyeuse...
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    reproductive engraver. His pupils included Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin and his nephew Claude Victor de Boissieu. French painting 1774-1830: the...
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    The Forbin class was a group of three protected cruisers built for the French Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The class comprised Forbin, Coëtlogon...
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    of only three witnesses, the Marquis de Montchevreuil, the Chevalier de Forbin and Alexandre Bontemps. Harlay was hated by the bride for using his influence...
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  • Palamède de Forbin 1485–1493 Aymar de Poitiers, Count of Valentinois 1493–1503 Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg, margrave de Hochberg 1504–1513 Louis d'Orléans...
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    to King Louis XIV of France at the Assembly in Aubagne in 1652. However, he was exposed as a "rebel" to Louis XIV by Jean-Baptiste de Forbin-Maynier of...
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    erected in 1817. In 1822 he completed a commemorative marble bust of Claude de Forbin (1656–1733), which was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1822 and was purchased...
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    Palamède de Forbin 1485–1493 Aymar de Poitiers, Count of Valentinois 1493–1503 Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg, margrave de Hochberg 1504–1513 Louis d'Orléans...
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    Honoré de Coriolis 1644: Lazare du Chaine de la Roquette 1645L Henri de Forbin-Maynier d'Oppède 1645: Melchior de Forbin de la Roque 1650: Louis de Cormis...
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  • de la Haye de Vantelet 1669 Hugues de Lionne 1674 Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Marseille (ambassador) 1676-1680 marquis François-Gaston de Béthune-Sully...
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    Claude de Forbin was imprisoned for three weeks in 1691 for shooting at a Mr. Fervaquet, who owed Forbin 500 books and who insulted Forbin in the street...
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  • Vengeur (under Forbin), as well as the 16-gun corvette Fortune (under Captain de Lusignan), and seven transports carrying the Régiment de Pondichéry, under...
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    acquaintance of the young comte de Forbin, and upon his invitation Granet, in the year 1797, went to Paris. De Forbin was one of the pupils of David,...
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    E. Hébert, (1850) Ruines de l'abbaye de Sylvacane (Ruins of Silvacane abbey) after Auguste de Forbin, (pub 1859) Souvenir de Tivoli (1849) Personnage...
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    The Memoirs of Louis Adhemar Timothée Le Golif, called Borgnefesse, Captain of the Buccaneers (Cahiers de Louis Adhemar Timothée Le Golif, dit Borgnefesse...
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    Raft of the Medusa was championed by the curator of the Louvre, comte de Forbin who purchased it for the museum from Géricault's heirs after his death...
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