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    Georges-Eugène Haussmann (category Lycée Henri-IV alumni)
    defines modern central Paris. Haussmann was born on 27 March 1809, at 53 Rue du Faubourg-du-Roule, in the Beaujon neighbourhood of Paris, the son of Nicolas-Valentin...
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    islands lie offshore, the largest of which are Île Fourchue, Île Coco, Île Chevreau (Île Bonhomme), Île Frégate, Île Toc Vers, Île Tortue, Roche Plate (Table...
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    surrendered on September 2. On the afternoon of September 3, 1870, Henri Chevreau, the Minister of the Interior, proceeded to the Tuileries Palace to...
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  • catalog. 1913 – Henri Poincaré – bronze bust on a granite base from the Vosges, in the square of the School of Nancy, bordering the rue Gambetta, directed...
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  • École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1910, his work "l'Enfant au chevreau" received an "honourable mention" and he carried off the school's "Chenavard"...
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