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    Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (/ˈpɒmpədʊər/, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour...
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    Arts décoratifs (lit. 'Decorative Arts'), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just...
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    Margherita Gonzaga, Marquise of Ferrara (1418–1439) was a noblewoman of the House of Gonzaga, from Mantua in modern-day Italy. She was the daughter of...
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    Rococo (redirect from Rococo (architecture))
    La Tour, Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1748 – 1755 François Boucher Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1756 Jean-Honoré Fragonard...
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    famous of the 19th-century French courtesans. A notable investor and architecture patron, and a collector of jewels, she had a personality so hard-bitten...
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    House of the Marquise of Villamejor. Antonio Palacios, described by Fernando Chueca as the "most powerful figure in the Spanish architecture of the first...
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    Marthe de Vogüé, Marquise de Mac Mahon (21 November 1860 - 9 June 1923) was a French political activist and monarchist. She was the leader of the "Dames...
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    dated at the end of the 18th century) and Leonor de Almeida Portugal, Marquise of Alorna. Romanticism in Italian literature was a minor movement although...
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    château passed to his heirs until 1732, and then in succession to the marquise de Belleforière, then to the marquis de Soyécourt. In 1777, it became the...
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    2008-12-14. "Trump Tower Mumbai". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. "Lodha Park Marquise". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. "Lodha Park Allura". CTBUH Skyscraper Center...
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    Queen of France (1703-1768), 1747, Versailles Louis XV (1710-1774) La Marquise de Pompadour, 1754-1755, Versailles, Petit Trianon The Three Graces, 1763...
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    Maillé-Brézé† Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné† Armand de Vignerot du Plessis† Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet† Jacques Frémontier†...
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    in Russian Prisons Creates Legions of Enemies". Jamestown Foundation. Marquise Francis (7 April 2022). "What are Russian 'filtration camps'?". Yahoo!...
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    appearing in Caesar's Wife (1919), The Intimate Strangers (1921), The Marquise (1927) and The Happy Husband (1928). When the family's investments were...
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    word marquise (the final /z/ probably being mistaken as -s plural), the feminine form corresponding to marquis ('nobleman'). The word marquise was also...
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    Château de Chenonceau (category Renaissance architecture in France)
    playwright Marivaux, the philosopher Condillac, as well as the Marquise de Tencin and the Marquise du Deffand. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was Dupin's secretary and...
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    original on 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "The Marquise". Sri Sreenivasa. Retrieved 31 January 2024. "Oberoi Skycity Tower F"....
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    XIV as a retreat for himself and his maîtresse-en-titre of the time, the Marquise de Montespan, and as a place where he and invited guests could take light...
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    Godard) - Elle: Elena Torlato-Favrini Eleonora Pimentel: The Jacobean Marquise (1990, TV Movie, directed by Ivana Massetti) - Eleonora Pimentel The Young...
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    1510 in Casale Monferrato – 28 December 1566 in Mantua), was the ruling Marquise regnant of Montferrat in her own right between 1533 and 1536. She was also...
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    Marquise du Châtelet and Voltaire, her lover, used the Hôtel Lambert as their Paris residence when not at her country estate in Cirey. The marquise was...
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    Louis XV style (category Rococo architecture)
    upholstered arms, A confessional, with upholstered and padded arms; the Marquise, a bergere seating two persons, with a low back, and short arms. The console...
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    Louis XIV (category Baroque architecture in France)
    d'Heudicourt (1665), Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1665), Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan (with whom he had seven children; 1667–1680), Anne de Rohan-Chabot...
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    Choiseul was the ward of the Marquise de Hautefort, who called her Mademoiselle de Saint-Cyr, named after the marquise's possession of Saint-Cyr-la-Roche...
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    Almudena Cathedral (category Neoclassical architecture in Madrid)
    III Marquess of Urquijo (1872–1948) Isabel de Maltrana y de Novales, I Marquise de Maltrana (d. 1919) Luis de Pedroso y Madan, V Count of San Esteban de...
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    copies of the Mona Lisa, such as those in the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and The Walters Art Museum, also display large flanking columns...
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    owners, including notables such as Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the Marquise Luisa Casati, contributed to the fame of this dwelling, organizing lavish...
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    Mawangdui (category Han dynasty architecture)
    was found in Tomb 3. The T-shaped silk funeral banner in the tomb of the Marquise (Tomb 1) is called the "name banner" with the written name of the deceased...
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    of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise...
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    Château de Madame du Barry (category Neoclassical architecture in France)
    legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At Louise's death in 1743, the château passed to her daughter...
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