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    n’est plus de ce monde 1929: André Boussac de Saint-Marc, Moloch 1932: Auguste Villeroy [fr], La Double passion 1938: François Mauriac, collected works 1941:...
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    Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Chateaubriand, François René Auguste" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Marc...
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    Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (French: [leɔ̃ buʁʒwa]; 21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party...
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    Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (French pronunciation: [ʒyl də pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847), then Prince of Polignac...
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    Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian who was France's Minister...
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    Charles Célestin Auguste Jonnart (27 December 1857 – 30 December 1927) was a French politician. Born into a bourgeois family in Fléchin, Pas-de-Calais...
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    de Villeroy ("Cremerie de Paris"), house of Nicolas de Villeroy, tutor of his brother Louis XIV. The children played there with Catherine de Villeroy and...
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    Brussels by a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy. The building was then roughly restored by the architect Jan Cosijn in...
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    Jean Casimir-Perier was born in Paris on 8 November 1847, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier, the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis...
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    Neufville de Villeroy became governor of the young king. The main childhood places of Louis XIV were the Palais-Royal and the nearby Hôtel de Villeroy. Mazarin...
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  • the Maison du Roi). 1570–1579 : Simon Fizes, baron de Sauves 1579–1588 : Villeroy Brulard 1579–1588 : Claude Pinard, seigneur de Comblisy et de Cramailles...
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    children. On 29 December 1744 he married for the second time. The bride was Auguste de Coëtquen (1722-1746), his first wife's cousin, daughter of Jules Malo...
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    Pierre Louis Auguste Ferron, Count de La Ferronnays (1777–1842) was French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 4 January 1828 to 24 April 1829. Born in Saint-Malo...
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    Knecht, Catherine de' Medici, pp. 254–55; Henry III wrote to his secretary Villeroy: "The Queen my mother wishes me to hang Obyac [sic] in the presence of...
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    Nicolas V de Villeroy became the young king's tutor. Louis XIV became friends with Villeroy's young children, particularly François de Villeroy, and divided...
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    Bank of France is appointed by the president and is, as of 2019, François Villeroy de Galhau, since 1 November 2015. He presides over the Bank's General Council...
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    secretaries of state, including Villeroy. The refusal was made, no doubt, out of a sense of loyalty to his friend and patron, Villeroy. Then, the Cardinal de Joyeuse...
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    toute la faculté que M. de Villeroy étale sur son baudrier" (Caumartin holds under his cloak all the power that Villeroy displays on his scabbard); another...
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    widow Madeleine Angélique, Duchesse de Boufflers, née de Neufville de Villeroy, whose husband had died the same year. After her marriage on 29 June 1750...
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    extinct 1738   Duke of Rethel 1663 La Porte-Mazarin extinct 1738   Duke of Villeroy 1663 Neufville abolished 1794   Duke of Mortemart 1663 Rochechouart abolished...
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    Knecht, Catherine de' Medici, 263. Henry wrote a note to Villeroy, which began: "Villeroy, I remain very well contented with your service; do not fail...
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    of François de Villeroy, the 73-year-old Duke and Maréchal de France, named as his governor in Louis XIV's will of August 1714. Villeroy instructed the...
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    on tablewares and decorative vessels rather than figures, with Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain being something of an exception. Where figures and groups were...
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    built of brick, concrete and white stone with slate roofs. The architect Auguste Perret designed the Gare d'Amiens train station and nearby Tour Perret...
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    appointed the duc du Maine commander of the civil and military Household, with Villeroy as his second-in-command. By this arrangement they became the sole masters...
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    3 December 1622. In 1716, the building was transferred to the Dukes of Villeroy. The Perier family owned it from 5 June 1780 to 23 December 1895. The castle...
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  • departments were dissociated in 1594: Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy took over the Département of Foreign Affairs and the Department of War...
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    Latreille, lecturer and historian. Auguste et Louis Lumière, designer of the cinematograph. Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, archbishop of Lyons. Antoine-Michel...
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    Vizille, which he purchased in 1780 from Gabriel Louis de Neufville, duc de Villeroy. The Revolution and Napoleon opened up new opportunities for families of...
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  • five year old Louis XV reaches maturity. Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroy is appointed Louis XV's legal guardian until his maturity, after which...
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