• Battle of Meudon took place on 3 April 1871 between the Paris Commune and Versaillais government forces near Meudon in the Île-de-France. The battle was...
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    Meudon (French pronunciation: [mødɔ̃] ) is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is in the département of Hauts-de-Seine. It...
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    Château de Meudon, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. At the edge of a wooded...
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  • April 2: Versaillais return for Battle of Courbevoie, ending in Communard retreat April 3: Battle of Rueil Battle of Meudon April 10: Commune Council makes...
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    Lucien Henry (category Colony of New South Wales people)
    he took part in the exit from Châtillon (Battle of Meudon),where the communards were defeated by the forces of the Third Republic. During this unfortunate...
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    the battle, strongly supported it, but Jourdan believed that it had contributed little. Guyton had already supervised the construction at Meudon of the...
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    for his magnificent collection of art at Versailles and Meudon. Louis XIV purchased Meudon for him from the widow of Louvois. The Dauphin employed Jules...
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    left at Meudon, with its reserves at Versailles. Zieten advanced on the 2 July towards the heights of Meudon and Châtillon and fought a sharp battle for the...
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    University of Paris. In 1547, he became curate of Saint-Christophe-du-Jambet in Maine and of Meudon near Paris. With support from members of the prominent...
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    he was also 2nd Prince of Montfort, 1st Count of Meudon and Count of Moncalieri, following his marriage with Maria Clotilde of Savoy in 1859. His popular...
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  • flank of the French army had to flee frantically. The Prussian-Bayern coalition captured Pavé blanc, recaptured Dame Rose and stormed into the Meudon forest...
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    succeeded in establishing themselves firmly upon the heights of Meudon and in the village of Issy. The French loss, on this day, was estimated at 3,000...
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    Meudon, Sèvres, and Saint-Cloud. In the evening he was joined by the Imperial Guard, which he posted in support. The following were the positions of the...
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    1643 before the Archbishop of Paris at Meudon, and the Duke and Duchess of Orléans were finally received at court. By right of her marriage, Marguerite...
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  • Pierre-François Bouchard (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    des aérostiers' and taught maths as sous-directeur of this École, then based in the Chateau de Meudon. There his right eye was badly damaged when a gas...
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    children that lived more than a year. In 1711, the Dauphin died at Meudon at the age of forty-nine and the title passed to his son, who died in 1712. Until...
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    and white at the Champ de Mars. However, soon after, Red Star moved to Meudon playing on a terrace overlooking the Seine Valley. Midway through the year...
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    possession of the advantageous position comprising the heights of Meudon and Châtillon, and their immediate vicinity. The 9th Brigade, the vanguard, of the III...
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    Marcel Dassault (category Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic)
    creation of the MiG aircraft series. Bloch worked at the French Aeronautics Research Laboratory at Chalais-Meudon during World War I and invented a type of aircraft...
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    final defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and the restoration of former dynasties by the Congress of Vienna. During the reign of Napoleon I, the...
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    Château de Meudon. Richard Cooper (2016). Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65, p. 189. Routledge. ISBN 9781317061861. "Choice examples of Classic...
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    Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (category Buildings and structures in the 1st arrondissement of Paris)
    Corinthian columns of marble. These columns were recovered from the Château de Meudon, destroyed in 1804. Each column is topped by eight soldiers of the Empire...
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    Antoine-Jean Gros (category 19th-century painters of historical subjects)
    portrait of French commander Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Arcole in 1796 brought Gros to public attention and gained the patronage of Napoleon...
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    Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." On 2 September 1870, France was defeated in the Battle of Sedan, and Emperor Napoleon III was...
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    Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine (category Communes of Hauts-de-Seine)
    different directions. The 162 running east and west of Châtillon can take you to the RER station in Meudon, or the shopping centre to the east. The 394 which...
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  • 2024 in France (category Years of the 21st century in France)
    up campaign posters in Meudon. Several suspects are arrested. 4 July – Film director Benoît Jacquot is charged with the rapes of actresses Julia Roy and...
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (category French people of Breton descent)
    and Lucette bought a villa in Meudon, on the southwestern outskirts of Paris, where Céline was to live for the remainder of his life. He registered as a...
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    including in Córdoba, Argentina, Plovdiv and Varna in Bulgaria, Meudon, Paris and a section of Connecticut Route 314 state highway running entirely within...
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    Senones (category History of le Marche)
    Senones, whence Sens), Metiosedum [fr] (Melun; according to A. Holder, Meudon), and Vellaunodunum (site uncertain). Their contact with the Italic populations...
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    Château de Meudon at Easter, where she was staying with her grandmother and her uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine. In many affairs, Mary of Guise consulted...
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