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    edition, 1756; 2nd edition, 1759) Other Examen de la Genèse Examen des Livres du Nouveau Testament Discours sur le bonheur Biography portal Timeline of women...
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    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/ˌdæləmˈbɛər/ DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician...
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    with the travels of Nicoláo de' Conti". archive.org. Translated by John Frampton (Second ed.). 1937. "Marco Polo, Le Livre des merveilles p. 173". Archived...
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    Voltaire (redirect from Arouet le Jeune)
    Mondain (1736) Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1755–1756) Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (1770) Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, A. Beuchot...
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    pierres précieuses au Moyen Age. Le quatrième livre du trésorier de philosophie naturelle des pierres précieuses de Jean d'Outremeuse, 2001-2002. (thesis...
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    393–396. doi:10.2307/3039577. JSTOR 3039577. Christiane Deluz, Le livre de Jehan de Mandeville, Leuven 1998, p. 215, as reported by Anthony Bale, trans.,...
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    Phillips (2005), p. 16 Gray (1998), pp. 418–20 de Lucovich, Jean-Pierre (30 July 2001). "Quand le marquis de Sade entre dans l'ère du marketing". marianne...
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    Terror. De Gouges had acquired for her son, Pierre Aubry, a position as a vice-general and head of battalion in exchange for a payment of 1,500 livres, and...
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    1989 : Gaston Mandeville [fr] – Où Sont Passé les Vrais Rebelles (16 ans, Bizness Blues, Gens stupides vs Amour, L'homme de la maison, le rêve américain...
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    Denis Diderot (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment...
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    of Eastman. 2 June: The Municipality of Saint-Charles-de-Mandeville changed its name to Mandeville. 13 June: Creation of the Municipality of Pierreville...
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    three hundred thousand livres. She retained her position until the death of Louis XV, despite the attempt to depose her by the Duc de Choiseul and the Duc...
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    edition, London 1854, poem 68 Emblem 154 Sinryke Fabulen, pp. 207ff Le Roux de Lincy, Le livre des proverbes français, Paris 1859, II.512 Joseph Dejardin, Dictionnaire...
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    Chechen genocide (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    "«La Russie a peut-être plus besoin de la guerre en Tchétchénie que de la Tchétchénie elle-même»: À propos du livre Tchétchénie: une affaire intérieure...
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    Prester John (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Retrieved 2021-06-20. Mandeville, John (1983) [14th century]. Mosely, C. W. R. D. (ed.). The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. New York: Penguin. pp. 167–171...
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    Marquis de Poléon. His ancestor Jean Pascault bought the barony, land and seigneury of Poléon in Saint-Georges-du-Bois in 1635 for 40,000 livres from Marguerite...
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    Holy Lance (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    via Internet Archive. Anthony of Novgorod (1889). "Le Livre du Pèlerin" [The Pilgrim's Book]. In de Khitrowo, B. (ed.). Itinéraires Russes en Orient [Russian...
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    Essais de poésies légères suivis d'un songe (1775) Dieu et les prêtres, Fragments d'un poème philosophique Le livre de tous les ages, ou, Le Pibrac moderne:...
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    sold his position as second president of the Cour des Aides for 65,665 livres. The money was invested in a government bond which provided, if not a lavish...
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    of Ethiopia, 1377 manuscript of Secrets de l'histoire naturelle Wondrous people of Ethiopia, ca. 1460 Livres des Merveilles du Monde Blemmyae, 1544 woodcut...
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    illness struck. A generous friend gave him a pension of 1200 livres, charged on the Mercure de France. Thus assisted, he was able to go to the baths of Contrexéville...
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  • nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Jean de Mandeville (1300?-1372)". Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA). "Jean de Mandeville". Mandeville, J. (1900)...
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    to me.": 40  In June 1791, Lavoisier made a loan of 71,000 livres to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to buy a printing works so that du Pont could publish...
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    his most famous book, The System of Nature (Le Système de la nature), under the name of Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud, the secretary of the Académie who had...
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    the mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, for example, called him "the great phrase-monger". In 1752 Buffon married Marie-Françoise de Saint-Belin-Malain...
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    manuscripts with accurate architectural drawings, such as John Mandeville's Livre de Merveilles. The huge set was built as one complete, interconnecting...
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  • (Neville) 1669 in literature – Jean Racine's Britannicus, Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comte de Guilleragues) 1670 in literature – Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Molière)...
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    eighteenth-century scientists such as Johann Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. Although never intended for publication, Huygens...
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    Georges Palante (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    (1989). Physiologie de George Palante. Le Livre de Poche. In 1916, he wrote: "Freud a raison de reconnaître l'importance énorme de la sexualité dans l'évolution...
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    New York: Abrams Books. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-4683-0850-1. "Marco Polo et le Livre des Merveilles", p. 37. ISBN 978-2-35404-007-9 Randles, W. G. L. (January...
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