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    Louis Jean Népomoucène Marie Rousseau (April 18, 1787 – September 24, 1856) was a French naval officer and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, a utopian socialist...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: /ˈruːsoʊ/, US: /ruːˈsoʊ/; French: [ʒɑ̃.ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer...
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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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    Let them eat cake (category Works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
    relation to Maria Theresa, the wife of Louis XIV, citing the memoirs of Louis XVIII, who was only fourteen when Rousseau's Confessions were written and whose...
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    Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a lawyer and politician...
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    1748. Voltaire published le Siecle de Louis XIV and l'Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations, in 1756. Rousseau became known in 1750 by the publication...
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  • capture of Louis Rousseau. Rousseau had fled the state after allegedly committing a murder in the town of Ville Platte. Duson tracked Rousseau for months...
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    Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii (category Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau)
    Orinoco River basins and major rivers of French Guiana. Named in honor of Louis Rousseau (1811-1874), assistant naturalist, Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Paris...
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  • Jean-Baptiste-Augustin Rousseau (? – 10 February 1809) was a French naval officer. In September 1793, Rousseau ranked enseigne de vaisseau non entretenu...
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  • Etiennez 1815-1816 François-Marie du Fou 1816-1819 Louis Rousseau de Saint-Aignan 1819-1830 Louis-Hyacinthe Lévesque 1830 Maurice Etiennez 1830-1832 Philippe-René...
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    Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Louis Philippe Joseph; 13 April 1747 – 6 November 1793), was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French...
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  • Charles Marion Rousseau (1848–1918) was a Kingdom of Belgium-born American architect. He was an early architect in the city of San Francisco, California...
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  • Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques-Joseph Rousseau, most often called Jean-Baptiste Rousseau or Joseph Rousseau, (10 December 1780 – 22 February 1831) was an...
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    Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ʒyst]; 25 August 1767 – 10 Thermidor, Year II [28 July 1794]), sometimes nicknamed the Archangel...
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  • Westerns in the 1940s. Louise was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Louis Rousseau (a famous French tenor) and Frances Simkins (daughter of a prominent...
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    Lawrence Rousseau (July 15, 1790, New Orleans, Spanish Empire – September 4, 1866, New Orleans, United States) was a United States Navy (USN) and Confederate...
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    Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (French: [pjɛʁ valdɛk ʁuso]; 2 December 1846 – 10 August 1904) was a French Republican politician who served...
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    René Louis de Girardin (French pronunciation: [ʁəne lwi də ʒiʁaʁdɛ̃]; 25 February 1735 – 1808), Marquis of Vauvray, was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's last pupil...
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    Panthéon (category Louis XV)
    Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Louis Braille, Jean Jaurès and Soufflot, its architect...
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  • Rousseau (diplomat) (1683–1753), Swiss-born envoy on behalf of Louis XIV of France Jacques Rousseau (canoeist) (c. 1925–2009), French slalom canoeist Jacques...
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    Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 with the 10th volume in the series, Rousseau and Revolution. The volumes were best sellers and sold well for many years...
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  • – Blondel (Q) – Le Blond (R) – Landois (S) – Rousseau (T) – Le Roy (V) – Eidous (X) – Yvon (Y) – Louis (Z) – Bellin (*) – Diderot (D.J.) – de Jaucourt...
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    Ermenonville is notable for its park named for Jean-Jacques Rousseau by René Louis de Girardin. Rousseau's tomb was designed by the painter Hubert Robert, and...
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    then prompted growth within the order. The Bishop of Coutances Claude-Louis Rousseau issued diocesan approval for her order and it went on to receive the...
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  • Louis Pierre Althusser (UK: /ˌæltʊˈsɛər/, US: /ˌɑːltuːˈsɛər/; French: [altysɛʁ]; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who...
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  • Jacques Rousseau (1683, Geneva - 1753, Isfahan) was a Genevan watchmaker. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to Isfahan in Persia (now Iran) by Louis XIV...
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    Marcel Auguste Louis Samuel-Rousseau (né Rousseau; 18 August 1882 – 11 June 1955) was a French composer, organist, and opera director. Born in Paris, he...
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    of the late Louis XVI residential style is the Hôtel de Salm in Paris (now the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur), built by Pierre Rousseau in 1751–1783...
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    Voltaire (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    1778, Rousseau died one month after Voltaire. In October 1794, Rousseau's remains were moved to the Panthéon near the remains of Voltaire. Louis XVI, while...
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    Königshofen) 1 seat Gaspar Schott (1608-1666), science writer and educator Louis Rousseau (1724-1794), German chemist Charles Albert (1743-1819), sculptor of...
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