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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist,...
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    the historical region of Franche-Comté merged for administrative purposes into the new region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region of Burgundy is both...
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    sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de Saint-André of the Comte de Provence's Carbine Regiment on 14 January 1757, and again promoted...
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    opportunity to launch the War of Devolution in 1667. This captured Franche-Comté and much of the Spanish Netherlands; French expansion in this area was a...
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  • of Vélines (Archiprêtre de Velines). He was later deprived of his benefice by the archbishop of Bordeaux because he was mixing "with brigands and men of...
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    of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important...
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    assumed the name Charles John and was named regent and generalissimo of the Swedish Armed Forces, soon after his arrival becoming de facto head of state...
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    ISBN 978-1910524985 Miguel Rojas-Mix, "Maurras en Amérique latine", Le Monde diplomatique, November 1980 (republished in Manières de voir n°95, "Les droites au...
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    region, champignons de Paris. Vinegars from Orléans are a specialty ingredient used as well.: 129, 132  Burgundy and Franche-Comté are known for their...
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  • chicken feet Dessert: vanilla cake mix, black beans, plantains, $2.00 Cabernet Sauvignon Contestants: Andrew De Lello, Private Chef from New York, NY...
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    Spain (redirect from Reino de España)
    (including holdings in the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and the Franche-Comté). The so-called Age of Discovery featured explorations by sea and by land...
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     448. "L'armée de France passa tranquillement le Rhin le 2 août & alla camper à Poltzeim où le duc de Duras qui étoit en la Franche-Comté vint prendre le...
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    1832. Gazan de la Peyriére died in Grasse on 9 April 1845. Names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, column 16. Mullié, Charles (1852). "Gazan de la Peyrière...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    burning a 50/50-mix of coal and wood pellets. Paris in its early history had only the rivers Seine and Bièvre for water. From 1809, the Canal de l'Ourcq provided...
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    the throne of France, the Comte de Chambord. She was the daughter of the Duke of Berry and the granddaughter of King Charles X of France. Ferdinando Carlo...
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  • Sánchez March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08) Ingredients: Appetizer: uova da raviolo, comté cheese, fresh bacon bits, eel Entrée: Italian olive salad, Cornish hens...
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    the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping...
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    United States Geological Survey. Marcott, S. A.; Shakun, J. D.; Clark, P. U.; Mix, A. C. (2013). "A reconstruction of regional and global temperature for the...
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    doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.484, ISBN 978-0-19-022863-7 de Montesquieu, Charles. "Book IX. Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force"...
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    the historical capital city of the County of Nice (French: Comté de Nice, Niçard: Countèa de Nissa). The first known hominid settlements in the Nice area...
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    seconds. Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury, a member of the Lower Canadian Legislative Assembly, insulted fellow politician Charles-Ovide Perreault....
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    Pangenesis (category Charles Darwin)
    cursory and vague. In 1749, the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon developed a hypothetical system of heredity much like Darwin's pangenesis...
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    Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    reconquer and keep Franche-Comté and Arras on the pretext that the French had repudiated his daughter. In 1493, Maximilian and Charles VIII of France signed...
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    Champagne (redirect from Blanc de noirs)
    made publicly available with the 1945 vintage. Then came Taittinger's Comtes de Champagne (first vintage 1952), and Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siècle 'La...
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    designated as Dragoon de Bartillat 1774: designated as Dragoon Comte-de-Provence, then, in the same year designated as Dragoon de Monsieur. 1791: designated...
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    Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866 – February 18, 1944) was a biologist and eugenicist influential in the American eugenics movement. Davenport...
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    French court (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    sororaux et familles royales : l'exemple de la visite de l'empereur Charles IV à la reine de France, Jeanne de Bourbon", Familles royales : Vie publique...
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    building on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, and was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc. It houses the Brittany Museum (Musée de Bretagne), the regional...
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    things" in Languedocien; and poutringue or potringa "bad stew" in Franche-Comté as possibly related to poutine. The meaning "fries with cheese and gravy"...
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  • away by the Comte. Charles Dance as Erik/The Phantom of The Opera Teri Polo as Christine Daaé/Belladova Adam Storke as Comte Philippe de Chagny Burt Lancaster...
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