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    Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist nikɔlɛ]; 16 April 1728 – 27 December 1796) was an 18th-century French actor and manager. He was...
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    establishment of the Collège de Nicolet in 1803. The parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet was officially opened in 1831; Nicolet's episcopal seat was established...
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    Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his...
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    Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Nicolet) also called Nicolet Cathedral is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church and seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Nicolet. It...
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    Temple by the celebrated Parisian fair-grounds showman Jean-Baptiste Nicolet as the Théâtre de Nicolet, ou des Grands Danseurs (pronounced [teɑtʁ də nikɔlɛ...
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    Jean-Baptiste Proulx (July 13, 1793 – July 17, 1856) was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada from Nicolet. A veteran of the War of 1812, he...
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    under the name ‘la petite Basquaise’. Jean-Baptiste Lalanne's contract was cancelled soon after by Jean-Baptiste Nicolet, the troupe's leader after Lalanne...
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    Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pɛʁɔno]; c. 1716 – 19 November 1783) was a French painter who specialized in portraits executed...
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    Anne-Antoinette Nicolet (French pronunciation: [an ɑ̃twanɛt nikɔlɛ]; 1743-1817), was a French actor and theatre director. She was the director of the...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Hébert (September 19, 1779 – June 15, 1863) was a merchant, farmer, master carpenter and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batistə ləɡaʁdœʁ də ʁəpɑ̃tiɲi]; 1632-1709), was born at Thury-Harcourt in Normandy in...
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  • du Crime. It was also at the fairs and on the boulevards that Jean-Baptiste Nicolet's troupe, the Grands-Danseurs du Roi, was born. Notes: Coupe 2009...
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  • Saint-Pierre. Jean-Paul Le Gardeur was born at Ville-Marie on October 4, 1661, son of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny (1632-1709) and Marguerite Nicolet de...
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    born in Nicolet, Quebec, in 1787 to Jean-Baptiste and Élisabeth Proulx Provencher. His parents were farmers. Provencher was educated at the Nicolet College...
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    Canada. The seat of the bishop (or "ordinary") is the Cathedral of St. Jean-Baptiste, a spectacular building opened in 1963, which seats 1,200 worshippers...
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  • was an 18th-century French comic actor, the main character in Jean-Baptiste Nicolet's plays. He made his debut as machinist at the Opéra de Paris, then...
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  • Marquette (North America) Jean Nicolet (North America) Jeanne Baré (circumnavigation) Nicolas Baudin (Indian Ocean, Australia) Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe...
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    Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland (25 December 1805 in Montreal – 11 January 1865 in Quebec City) was a French Canadian historian. He studied at the college...
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  • prince Francesco Borghese) and Louise Hélène Heim (granddaughter of Jean-Baptiste Nicolet. He joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts on 7 October 1846, studying...
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  • the fair troupe of Jean-Baptiste Nicolet. His first play, La Bourbonnaise (1768), was highly applauded, to the point that Nicolet hired him to replace...
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  • nationalist movement. He served as vice-president of a local Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste organization for many years and was president of the Parti Québécois...
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    Avicularia (category Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck)
    "stunning" color and size. The genus Avicularia was erected in 1818 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for species previously placed in Mygale Latreille, 1802, the...
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    Philippe Nicolet (born 4 January 1953 in Lausanne), is a Swiss film director of both documentaries and fiction. Journalist and scriptwriter, he was the...
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  • Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in Nicolet Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste Cathedral in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Saint-Jean-Eudes Cathedral in Baie-Comeau...
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    Pierre Beaubien (category Presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal)
    His parents were a farm couple, Jean-Louis Beaubien and Marie-Jeanne Manseau. He studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet and the Petit Séminaire de Montréal...
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    grandfather Jean served in the army of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. He did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Nicolet [fr], in Nicolet, which he entered...
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    Louis Joliet, explorer Madeleine Juneau, museologist, teacher, nun Jean-Baptiste Kelly, vicar-general Antoine Labelle, priest and builder Régine Laurent...
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  • Nicolet in 1838. His daughter Marie-Anne married surveyor François Legendre who also represented Buckingham in the assembly. His nephew Jean-Baptiste...
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  • Champlain founded Quebec (1608) and explored the Great Lakes. In 1634, Jean Nicolet founded La Baye des Puants (present-day Green Bay), which is one of the...
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  • Batiscan, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Guillet and Marguerite Langlois. He was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet, studied law with his brother...
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