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    Louise of Lorraine (French: Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont; 30 April 1553 – 29 January 1601) was Queen of France as the wife of King Henry III from their...
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    aristocratic square, except for Anne of Austria who lived in the Pavilion de la Reine for a short while. The Place Royale inspired subsequent developments...
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    Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte, Vie de Marie de Médicis, princesse de Toscane, reine de France et de Navarre, 3 vol. in-8°. La France de la monarchie absolue, 1610-1715...
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    Hôtel de Chevreuse. From this second marriage, she had three daughters. Two of them became nuns, Anne-Marie of Lorraine (1625–52), abbess of Pont-aux-Dames...
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    Champigny-sur-Marne (category Communes of Val-de-Marne)
    new station will be located along RN4, near the railway bridge known as Pont de la Plage. Primary schools: Preschools: Nine for the 9e circonscription and...
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    poèmes de Louis Aragon (I: "C", II: "Fêtes galantes") (1943), FP 122 Métamorphoses (1943) FP 121 for voice and piano (Louise de Vilmorin) (I. Reine des mouettes;...
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    Théâtre de la Reine in the gardens of Versailles. She limited the audience to her intimate circle and a few musicians, among them the Chevalier de Saint-Georges...
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    September: The Village of La Reine is annexed by the Municipality of La Reine. 10 October: The Parish of La Visitation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge-de-l’Isle-du-Pads became...
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    musicales in the salon of her Petit appartement de la reine in the Palace of Versailles, or in the Théâtre de la Reine. She limited the audience to her intimate...
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    Apartments) include the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reine. They occupied the main or principal floor of the château neuf, with...
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    court life and to rest from her royal responsibilities. Since all were de par la Reine (by order of the Queen), none were permitted to enter the property...
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    Savane Carrée Passe-Reine ou Bas d'Ennery Chemin Neuf Puilboreau La Croix-Perisse petite-Desdunes Pont Tamarin Bassin Rivière de Bayonnais Poteaux Labranle...
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    commissioned in great secret the construction of the renowned Laiterie de la Reine, (the Queen's dairy), where the buckets were of Sèvres porcelain, painted...
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  • Avenue de la Couronne/Kroonlaan La Cambre/Ter Kameren: crossroad with the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan, where the Greater Ring enters the Bois de La Cambre/Ter...
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    2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony (category CS1 Austrian German-language sources (de-at))
    le seul à se protéger de la pluie lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des JO : les images insolites du Roi, de la Reine... et de Charles Michel (photos)"...
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    directed his efforts at Trianon. In the area now occupied by the Hameau de la Reine, Louis XV constructed and maintained les jardins botaniques – the botanical...
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    including the following: Richard Mique (1728–1794), architect of the Hameau de la reine at the Palace of Versailles, guillotined 8 July 1794 The 16 Discalced...
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    Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during...
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    from injuries sustained earlier that night in a fatal car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed, Diana's partner, and the driver...
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    Poche de Saint-Nazaire from the French expression poche de resistance. Chapelle Saint-Anne La Baule-Escoublac railroad station Hôtel Castel Marie-Louise Hôtel...
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    Margeson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988) Alexandre Dumas, La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) (1845) Heinrich Mann, Die Jugend des Königs Henry...
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  • by Leo Marjane "À Joinville-le-Pont" by Bourvil "A Kiss from Paris" by Abyale "À la Bastille" by Aristide Bruant "À la Paris" by Rega Dance Orchestra...
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    Jacques Offenbach (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    example is the quintet for the kings in La belle Hélène: "Je suis l'époux de la reine/Poux de la reine/Poux de la reine" and "Le roi barbu qui s'avance/Bu...
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    three stations on Paris Métro Line 3: Louise Michel, Anatole France, and Pont de Levallois – Bécon. It is also served by Clichy – Levallois station on the...
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    Ludivine Sagnier (category Actresses from Île-de-France)
    Swimming Pool (2003), 8 Women (2003), and A Secret (2007). Sagnier was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the département of Yvelines, France. Her mother is a...
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    RATP bus network (category Transport infrastructure in Île-de-France)
    arrondissement (from Montsouris to Porte de Vanves) x9 represents the 15th arrondissement (from Porte de Vanves to Pont du Garigliano) 0 and 1 are used as "wildcards"...
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    Timeline of Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    between the modern avenue de New York and the Cours-la-Reine. A line is later opened connecting Place de la Concorde with the pont de Sèvres. 1854 Louis Vuitton...
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    style, and was inspired by the Royal Opera of Versailles and the Théâtre de la Reine at the Petit Trianon. The new theatre, with four hundred seats arranged...
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    central feature of the Jardin de la Reine (today's Jardin de Diane) laid out west of the Galerie des Cerfs at the Château de Fontainebleau; there it was...
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    Boulogne-Billancourt (category Cities in Île-de-France)
    d'agglomération Val de Seine. Boulogne-Billancourt is served by two stations on Paris Métro Line 10: Boulogne–Jean Jaurès and Boulogne–Pont de Saint-Cloud. It...
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