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    Vauquelin Square (officially in French: Place Vauquelin) is a small urban square located in Old Montreal. The square was a part of the fief given in 1658...
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    The Vauquelin class was a group of six large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the early 1930s. Entering...
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    assuming its present name of Place Jacques-Cartier in 1845. The space occupied by the church of the Jesuits became the Place Vauquelin and Montreal City Hall...
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    The Statue of Jean Vauquelin (French: Monument à Jean Vauquelin) by Eugène Bénet [fr] is a sculpture installed in Montreal's Vauquelin Square, in Quebec...
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    seconds ahead of the peloton, to earn the first yellow jersey. Kévin Vauquelin won the second stage, but Pogačar claimed the race lead. In Stage 3, Pogačar...
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    The French destroyer Vauquelin was the lead ship of her class of six large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale)...
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    Nicolas Vauquelin des Yveteaux (1567–1649) was a French libertine poet, the son of Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye. He was born at the château de La Fresnaye...
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    The men's road time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 on a course starting at 16:32 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. Remco Evenepoel...
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    Château de la Fresnaye - a seventeenth century chateau, home of Nicolas Vauquelin, that was listed as a monument in 1945. Since 1986 it has been owned by...
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    finally by Louis Vauquelin in 1797. As soon as Martin Klaproth discovered the presence of potassium in leucite and lepidolite, Vauquelin demonstrated that...
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    William I and William II. Or Walchelin/Walchelyn (English/Norman-French), Vauquelin (Norman-French), or Walcalinus/Walklynus (Latin). Ecclesiam Wintoniensem...
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    the requests of Vauquelin's sisters. But his progress was so rapid that in two or three years he was able to take his master's place at the lecture-table...
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    The men's individual road race event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 August 2024 on a course that started at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. Gold medal...
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  • The 2024 La Flèche Wallonne was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 17 April 2024 from the Belgian city of Charleroi to the municipality of...
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  • precipitated crystals. Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin discovered in 1799 that the nitrated crystals were identical to Rouelle's...
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    this work was done alongside Vauquelin, who became Fourcroy's assistant in 1784. During this period of work with Vauquelin, Fourcroy founded his own journal:...
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    committee on 8 July 2024. As the host nation, France reserves a direct quota place each in the men's and women's individuals and teams as well as the mixed...
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    Kevin Vauquelin for the win. Williams was selected by Bahrain–McLaren to ride his first Grand Tour at the 2020 Vuelta a España. He was in 155th place after...
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    Collet-Descotils, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin also observed iridium in the black platinum residue in 1803, but did not...
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    sample of the pigment to the French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin for analysis: Vauquelin (1814). "Note sur une couleur bleue artificielle analogue...
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    the presence of potassium in the minerals leucite and lepidolite. Louis Vauquelin then conjectured that potassium was likewise an ingredient in many other...
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    Retrieved 18 February 2023. Stuart, Peter (17 February 2023). "Kévin Vauquelin wins stage 1 of Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var 2023". CyclingNews...
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  • The 2024 Tirreno–Adriatico was a road cycling stage race that took place between 4 and 10 March 2024 in Italy. It was the 59th edition of the Tirreno–Adriatico...
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    asked chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin for a chemical analysis. In a 1798 paper read before the Institut de France, Vauquelin reported that he found a new...
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    discovered in the early 1800s. In 1806, French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound from asparagus that was subsequently...
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    French destroyer Maillé Brézé (1931) (category Vauquelin-class destroyers)
    Maillé Brézé was one of six Vauquelin-class destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1930s. The ship entered...
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  • Frères-Charon [fr] Saint-Louis Square Sun Yat-sen Park Victoria Square Vauquelin Square Viger Square Heron Island Bird Sanctuary [fr] Belmont Park (1923-1983)...
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  •  Star of Bessèges – Tour of Gard) was a road cycling stage race that took place between 31 January and 4 February 2024 almost entirely within the French...
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    Rouen, 1940 Jacques Vauquelin, La libération de Bolbec (Aout-Septembre 1954), Bolbec, 1969 Jacques Vauquelin, Bolbec, ses rues… ses places…, Bolbec, 1970 Jacques...
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    actual composition of alum was not determined until 1798, when Louis Vauquelin demonstrated that common alum is a double salt, composed of sulfuric acid...
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