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    Louis François, marquis de Monteynard (13 May 1713, in La Pierre, Isère – 3 May 1791, in Paris) was a French soldier and statesman. At the age of 14,...
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    French prestige. The eldest son of François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville (1700–1770), Étienne François was born in Nancy in the Duchy of Lorraine...
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    returning to Paris, Dumouriez sought a military position from the marquis de Monteynard, Secretary of State for War, who gave him a staff position with the...
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    French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman (d. 1791) May 15 József Károly Hell...
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    Vrillière (1770), was a French politician. Son of Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de La Vrillière, and Françoise de Mailly-Nesle (1688–1742), he succeeded his father...
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  • French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman (d. 1791) May 15 József Károly Hell...
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    under King Louis XV. He was the son of Armand-Louis de Vignerot du Plessis, duc d'Aiguillon (1683–1750) and Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac and...
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    author. Jean-François Leriget de La Faye (1674 – 1731) diplomat, wealthy landowner, art collector and poet. Pierre Schneyder [fr; de] (1733 – 1814)...
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     292, #19309. Chesnaye-Desbois, François Alexandre Aubert de la (1764). Calendrier des princes et de la noblesse de France ... pour l'année 1764 (in...
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    Désirée (2016). Louis XVI: Le Bienfaisant (in French). Noblishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-2-889-39034-2. Retrieved 17 May 2020. Isambert, François André (1826)...
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    November 2020. Petite histoire du Dauphiné, Félix Vernay, 1933, p18 Louis, Jaucourt de chevalier (1757). "Grenoble". Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert...
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    (Champollion le Jeune) Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), philologist and orientalist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglpyhs François-Jean Rochas [fr] Frenchy...
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    de Melun and the Princes d'Epinoy. She had been a professed nun at Origny Abbey and Abbess of Cézanne. 1772–1790 – Marguerite-Madeleine de Monteynard [fr]...
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    Queen mother and to Mary Vignon, and the wife of François de Bonne, Constable of France. Gaspard de Barral already owned a steel mill near Renage and...
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    "amphitheatre of small basins". The caves were a hideout for Louis Mandrin. They were visited by François I and contain an apocryphal portrait of him. The caves...
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    L'Isle d'Abeau transformed in 2007 into the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI). The Bourbre river flows north through the northeastern part...
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    Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ nikɔla də maʃʁɛ̃]) is a commune in the Isère department within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in southeastern...
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    attacked by Bedaiwi XIII Attack and seizure of Montmélian by the army of Louis XIV in 1692 New occupation of Savoie by France and complete dismantling...
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