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    Pierre Le Gros the Elder (baptised 27 May 1629 Chartres – died 11 May 1714 Paris) was a French sculptor in the service of King Louis XIV. His first wife...
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    Werner); instead Belmondo made two movies with Jean-Pierre Melville: the film noir crime film The Fingerman (Le Doulos, 1963) and Magnet of Doom (1963). He co-starred...
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  • division) Pierre André Grobon (général de brigade) Joseph Groisne (général de brigade) Jean Gaston Quentin Gromard (général de division) Jean Louis Gros (général...
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  • essayist Claude Gros de Boze, 1715–1753, erudite and numismatist Louis de Bourbon Condé de Clermont, 1753–1771, ecclesiastic Pierre-Laurent Buirette...
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    sculptures of hunting dogs and deer around the fountain were made by Pierre Biard l'Aîné. Fountain Court and the carp pond The pavilion, first built by Louis...
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    ISBN 0-15-600059-8. Marnham (1994). pp. 173-4 Assouline, Pierre (2013). "VII. À la croisée d'une œuvre: Les écrivains face à Simenon". Cahiers de l'Herne (in...
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    Traité Complet du Jeu de Trictrac, 2nd rev. edn., Barrois l’Aîné (1st edn.. 1816). [Lepeintre, Pierre-Marie Michel] (1818), Cours Complet de Trictrac avec...
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    Tertre wrote: "Loyseau que les habitans des Indes appellent Fregate (à cause de la vistesse de son vol) n'a pas le corp plus gros qu'une poule ..." ("The...
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