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    Durocortorum (category Reims)
    present-day Reims: the cardo major (rue de Vesle, avenue Jean Jaures), and the decumanus major (rue de l'Université, rue Anatole-France and rue Colbert), which...
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    monuments are to be found in the public squares of the chief cities of France. At Reims there is his bronze statue of Colbert, at Dijon his Rameau monument. The...
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    divisions under Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais and Louis Marie Levesque de Laferrière surprised and captured Reims and its Allied garrison. Napoleon...
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    Saint-Priest seized Reims from its French garrison. Napoleon immediately ordered his army to march to that city where he won the Battle of Reims the next day...
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  • Champagne Krug (category Comité Colbert members)
    Champagne house founded by Joseph Krug in 1843. It is based principally in Reims, the main city in France's Champagne region and is one of the famous Champagne...
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    their coat of arms; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans...
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    Boulle was "the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers". Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) recommended him to Louis XIV of France...
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    Competition – 2022 Cannes Film Festival) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Claudine Colbert The Sitting Duck Maureen Kearney (Orizzonti Competition – 2022 Venice Film...
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    they charged at Brienne, La Rothière, Montmirail, Berry-au-Bac, Craonne, Reims, and Paris. During the First Restoration, the Polish Lancers were disbanded...
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    stone, also by Landowski (1908), since 1933 on Saint-Nicaise Hill [fr] in Reims, Painting, marble by Aimé Octobre [fr] (1909), now at the Musée de Tessé [fr]...
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    of France became one of the few French monarchs to be crowned outside of Reims when he was crowned in Orléans cathedral by Daimbert, Archbishop of Sens...
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    save Aix from her fate". Aachen is twinned with: Montebourg, France (1960) Reims, France (1967) Halifax, England (1979) Toledo, Spain (1985) Ningbo, China...
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    governments throughout the 16th century to give regular concerts in public squares and would lead processions for festivals. Piffari usually contained a mix...
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    000 and 500,000. The king named Jean-Baptiste Colbert as his new Superintendent of Buildings, and Colbert began an ambitious building programme to make...
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    Line 2     CH Dron depôt CH Dron Bourgogne Pont de Neuville Phalempins Colbert Tourcoing – Centre Gare de Tourcoing Carliers Mercure Canal de Roubaix...
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    Blücher authorized Yorck and Sacken to withdraw via Château-Thierry toward Reims where his army would reassemble. MacDonald sent Antoine-Louis Decrest de...
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    uncontrollably, and panicked mobs of fugitives. Nevertheless, the Red Lancers under Colbert and Latour-Maubourg managed to force the Russians aside. A large corps...
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    day, his brother, Cardinal Louis II of Guise, who was also Archbishop of Reims, suffered the same fate. Their deaths were shortly followed by that of the...
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    (1642–1661) Cardinal Mazarin and the economic policies (1661–1683) of Colbert. Colbert's attempts to promote economic growth and the creation of new industries...
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    (101 mi) east-north-east of Le Havre and 144 kilometres (89 mi) north-west of Reims. At the regional level, Amiens is located 53 kilometres (33 mi) north of...
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  • Retrieved 20 April 2014. "Bust of Louis Bouilhet". Retrieved 23 April 2014. "Colbert". Retrieved 20 April 2014. "Allegories of "Navigation" and "Commerce""...
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    force included the Corps Cavalry Division led by Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, a reinforced dragoon brigade from Bourcier's 4th Dragoon Division...
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    2,582 troopers of the 1st Guard Cavalry Division under Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais, the 2,164 sabers of the 3rd Guard Cavalry Division under Louis...
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    Guillaume de Machaut, who was also renowned as a poet. A canon at Notre-Dame de Reims, he composed a famous mass, the Messe de Nostre Dame, or Mass of our Lady...
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    foot and two horse artillery batteries at full strength. Smith itemized Colbert-Chabanais' 6th Corps cavalry but repeated Trelliard's list of regiments...
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  • (1605–1656), 17 paintings : Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, Musée Saint-Denis, Reims (url) Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859–1929), 1 painting : In the Orchard...
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    Tardif de Pommeroux de Bordesoulle at Arcis-sur-Aube and Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais at Nogent-sur-Seine to cooperate with his plan. Russian Cossacks...
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    Brussels, for the A2, and the E17 from Antwerp to Beaune via Lille and Reims, for the A26. Cambrai and its region are served by four autoroute interchanges:...
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    sentence de l’échevinage de Reims, concernant les métiers de drapier et tisserands, mars 1292. A cartulary, Archbishop of Reims, fol. 60 – Invent. of 1481...
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    after his return to England. February 12 – The Marquis de Croissy, Charles Colbert, becomes France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and serves for 16 years until...
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