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    Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (French: [danjɛl fʁɑ̃swa ɛspʁi obɛːʁ]; 29 January 1782 – 12 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire...
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  • adventurer (born 1752) Esprit Calvet, physician and collector (born 1728) Antoine-Denis Chaudet, sculptor (born 1763) Jean-Marie Morel, architect and...
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  • Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers (général de division) Gilles Jean Marie Roland de Barazer, chevalier de Kermorvan (général de brigade) Joseph Barbanègre (général...
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    which were not published until after Pascal's death in 1662. Jean de La Bruyère, the Chevalier de Méré, to whom the Discours has even been attributed, and...
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     66. Mre Jean-Antoine de Mesmes Comte d'Avaux, Conseiller d'État Ordinaire, cy-devant Prevost & Maistre des Ceremonies de l'Ordre du S Esprit, mourut icy...
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     138–139. Teulet, Alexandre (1863). "Liste chronologique des chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit depuis son origine jusqu'à son extinction (1578–1830)" [Chronological...
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  • in 1900 André Gide (1920) Colette (1932) Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac monument Ernest Hemingway with his second wife, Pauline...
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    des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne, chevaliers, commandeurs et officiers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit (in French). Vol. 9. Paris. pp. 249–250 (Google...
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    ISBN 978-1-78076-784-0. Teulet, Alexandre (1863). "Liste chronologique des chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit depuis son origine jusqu'à son extinction (1578-1830)" [Chronological...
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    The Germans also adopted the name of the French order of Willermoz, les Chevaliers bienfaisants de la Cité sainte (Good Knights of the Holy City), and some...
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  • garrison to garrison, residing at Épinal, Huningue, Sedan, Vienne, Pont-Saint-Esprit, Largentière and Alès. He was made a major of the Roussillon chasseur battalion...
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  • Brown-Philpot, former CEO of TaskRabbit Susie Tompkins Buell, co-founder of Esprit Holdings and The North Face Ursula Burns, co-founder of Teneo Jeff Bussgang...
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    François, Rivière-Pilote, Rivière-Salée, Sainte-Anne, Sainte-Luce, Saint-Esprit, Les Trois-Îlets, and Le Vauclin. Saint-Pierre is the third subprefecture...
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    amazed at her jokes, not at her lovable jokes, but of her common sense (esprit de bon sens)...I assure you that it cannot be expressed better. She is a...
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  • Jean François Sarrazin (1605–1654) Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685) Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) Jean Rotrou...
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    designed funeral monuments, such as that to the composers Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and François Bazin at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His palace in Louis...
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    where he died unexpectedly on 5 October 1867. Achille Fould was made a chevalier in the Legion of Honour in 1848, officier in 1850, commandeur in late...
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    ("root", after the Root River) Racine County Radisson (named for Pierre-Esprit Radisson, early French-Canadian explorer) Roche a Cri St. Croix Falls (after...
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    November 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013. "Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.)....
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    France Grand-croix, Légion d'honneur Chevalier de Malte Famille de La Valette-Parisot A.Robert et G.Cougny. "Charles, Jean, Marie, Félix LA VALETTE (1806 -...
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    Poullain de Saint-Foix, Germain-François (1766). Histoire de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit. Vol. 1. Paris: Vve Duchesne. pp. 45–46. Louandre, F.-C. Hist. ancienne...
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    Son and Full of Verve" – "esprit" meaning both "[Holy] Spirit" and "wit", and "Plein d'Esprit" rhyming with "Saint Esprit". Guiraud added recitatives...
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    Varenne (1590-10/05/1670). Son of Charles d'Albert (05/08/1578 in Pont-Saint-Esprit – 15/12/1621 in Longueville), Marquis of Albert, Duke of Luynes, Grand Constable...
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  • Taylor Blossoms in the Dust Edna Gladney Greer Garson Hudson's Bay Pierre-Esprit Radisson Paul Muni Médard des Groseilliers Laird Cregar Men of Boys Town...
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    (1): 195–199. doi:10.3406/syria.1990.7140. Saadé, Gabriel; Starcky, Jean; Will, Ernest (1985). "Nouvelles archéologiques". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire...
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    Saint-Martin, chevalier, in service of the Dutch Republic. Jean de Gassion, Gascon military, commander at the 1643 battle of Rocroi. Jean-François Roberval...
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    Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1863. Landesamt. p. 7. Boettger, T. F. "Chevaliers de la Toisón d'Or - Knights of the Golden Fleece". La Confrérie Amicale...
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  • September 10, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013. Menzel, Donald H.; Taves, Ernest H. (1977). The UFO Enigma: The Definitive Explanation of the UFO Phenomenon...
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    facto monopoly in the North American fur trade. Two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers (Médard de Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers)...
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    Colin, 1814), Édouard Lalo (Le Roi d'Ys, 1888), Jean-François Lesueur (Ossian, ou les Bardes, 1804) and Ernest Reyer (Sigurd, 1882; Salammbô, 1890). In Italy...
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