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    juin 1694, oil on canvas by François-Auguste Biard, 1843, Louvre Maure 54 (flag) Fortuné 50 Adroit 44 Jersey 50 Comte 50 Mignon 50 Bienvenu 24 (merchantman)...
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    Moorish Kings of Granada (French: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade) is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Regnault. Completed in...
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    Rules Committee and a close ally of AU President Gertrude Mongella. The Maure is used as the AUF's flag and emblem. The head is blindfolded representing...
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    (1415 – after 1459) (cited in the tree). Son of John VIII of Maure (?–1529), Lord of Maure, and Marie du Plessis-Angier (?–1497). Son of Hardouin IX of...
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    was of Medieval origin. The first known version is from Benoît de Sainte-Maure's poem Roman de Troie, but Chaucer's principal source appears to have been...
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  • President and Head of the Global Strategy Office of Hyundai Motor Group Nicolas Maure (MBA), EVP, Renault Group Nicolas Wertans (MBA), Senior Vice President,...
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    Julie Françoise de Crussol, was a grand daughter of Charles de Sainte Maure, Duke of Montausier and a great-grand daughter of the famous marquise de...
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    earlier work of M. Girard, who was able to identify Maurica as the "les Maures" ridge of Montgueux, based on the second Additamenta Altera to Prosper's...
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    Saint-Tropez. From here they controlled the mountains of the Massif des Maures and the coast between modern Fréjus and Hyères, and raided throughout Provence...
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  • Boudinhon-Valdec (général de brigade) Louis de Bouillé (général de division) Jean Fortuné Boüin de Marigny (général de brigade) Servais Beaudouin Boulanger (général...
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    in 1710, renamed HMS Moor. Fortuné class. Designed by Laurent Coulomb and built by him and his son François Coulomb. Fortuné 56, later 60 guns (launched...
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    in Paris, the present seat of the National Assembly of France, with the fortune she amassed having invested greatly with John Law. Louise Françoise was...
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    and then was attached to Charles of Anjou, brother of Louis IX, whose fortunes he followed in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Italy. At the court of Charles...
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  • serial killer. Known as The Boar of the Moors (French: Le sanglier des Maures), he killed three people on three separate occasions between 1954 and 2007...
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    7 June 1673, in which the Dutch were defeated. He was in command of the Maure in 1674 in the Mediterranean fleet of Jean-Baptiste de Valbelle. Quebec...
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    Christol, "L'armée des provinces pannoniennes et la pacification des révoltes maures sous Antonin le Pieux". In: Antiquités africaines, 17, 1981. pp. 133–141...
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    popular medieval chivalric romances, most notably those of Benoît de Sainte-Maure and Guido delle Colonne. These in turn spawned many others in various European...
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    description of Morgan is notably very similar to that in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's epic poem Roman de Troie (c. 1155–1160), a story of the ancient Trojan...
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    (Maures in Old French), Arabs and Berbers from North Africa, who settled on the coast of Provence in the 9th and 10th centuries. The Massif des Maures...
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    brother, the Duke of Maine, who inherited the entirety of his mother's vast fortune. In 1710 Louis XIV's youngest legitimate grandson, Charles, Duke of Berry...
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    Thèbes Roman d'Enéas (1160) Roman de Troie (1154–1173) – Benoît de Sainte-Maure Roman d'Alexandre (1177) – this romance uses a twelve-syllable verse and...
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    imitator of the Provençals, but in this book he converted Benoît de Sainte-Maure's French romance into what sounded like serious Latin history. Much the same...
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    Saint-Tropez, from which they controlled the mountains of the Massif des Maures and the coast between modern Fréjus and Hyères. Between 900 and 910, and...
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    (Spanish for "Moors"). The word Moor was derived from the ancient "Mauri/Maure" tribe of North Africa, found in the ancient Roman Provinces of Mauretania...
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    Saint-Brieuc (Hippodrome de la Baie), Saint-Malo (Hippodrome de Marville) and Maure-de-Bretagne (Hippodrome des Bruyères), which organize ten meetings a year...
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    Picot and Édouard Rahir Gallica 1904 Le roman de Troie, by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, vol. 1 Léopold Constans Gallica 1905 Le roman de Tristan, by Thomas, vol...
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    Barbarie. The Fulas live in the inland and practice pastoral farming. The Maures who are migrants from Mauritania (Saint-Louis is less than 10 kilometres...
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    indiens et l'occident: petites monographies folkloriques à propos de contes Maures. Paris: Édouard Champion. 1922. pp. 336-337. Ranke, Kurt. Folktales of Germany...
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    the Régence of the young King Louis XV of France, her husband had made a fortune. Her husband died in 1727 at the Hôtel de Conti (quai Conti) in Paris due...
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    p. 6. Louis-Sauveur de Chénier (1787). Recherches historiques sur les Maures et histoire de l'Empire de Maroc. [Volume 3] (in French). l’Imprimerie Polytype...
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