• 91–102. doi:10.3406/bulmo.1924.11763. Salet, Francis (1960). "Ordre colossal et ordres superposés". Bulletin Monumental. 118 (4): 306–307. Calvel, Patrice...
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    Anurag Kashyap (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and letters) in 2013...
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    primogeniture, accusing it of dividing the countryside into "proletarians and colossal properties." Later works penned by Pétion include his account of Haiti...
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    Zurab Tsereteli (category Colossal statues)
    Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli (Georgian: ზურაბ კონსტანტინეს ძე წერეთელი, Russian: Зураб Константинович Церетели; born 4 January 1934) is a Georgian-Russian...
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    fully explored. The destroyed corner of a Greco-Roman period temple with colossal statues of Ramesses II and Meritamen was discovered in 1981. Of Akhmim...
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    Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam) by Ettore Scola (Italy) 1974: Orders (Les Ordres), by Michel Brault (Canada) 1974: Montreal Main, by Frank Vitale (Canada)...
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    was a Chevalier of the French Légion d’honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite. Silvers was born in Mineola, New York, and grew up in...
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    dedicated books to her, knowing that she would read them. Though she spent colossal sums on the building and embellishment of monuments and palaces, little...
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  • signs of the ancient way of life. It was in this vein that he wrote his colossal work on minerals, a very detailed study of the measuring system of ancient...
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    comprising seven large double column volumes of over six hundred pages: a colossal undertaking, fit for a numerous body of collaborators, which he achieved...
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  • Dana Thomas (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    the Future of Clothes, an investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement...
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    Meryl Streep (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    critics, who called it "beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull [and] a colossal waste of a talented cast". She had a role in Robert Redford's Lions for...
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    Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 2: 270–312. Cuvier, Georges (1817). "Sixié ordre des mammiféres. Les pachydermes". Le règne animal distribué d'après son...
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    socialiste colonial Marie-Reine de Jaham, novelist, made officer of the ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013, awarded the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes...
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  • the Kazakh national conservatory. Jania Aubakhirova is a recipient of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Kazakhstan State Premium. She was second...
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    Ismail Kadare (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    15 times, was awarded the Legion d'honneur last year and his output is colossal. So why isn't the Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare better known...
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    participate in a competition under a committee of the National Convention for a colossal bronze sculpture of The French People in the guise of Hercules; his model...
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    Seamus Heaney (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In 1996 he was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1998 was bestowed the title Saoi of Aosdána...
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    Dmitri Shostakovich (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    denunciation; and the Fourth Symphony, described in Grove's Dictionary as "a colossal synthesis of Shostakovich's musical development to date". The Fourth was...
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  • Abbas Kiarostami, Iran 2005: Underexposure by Oday Rasheed, Iraq 2006: Colossal Youth by Pedro Costa, Portugal 2006: Angadi Theru by Vasantha Balan, India...
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    the British Empire (CBE) – 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011 French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2012 Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian...
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    Ghislain Baury, Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes...
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    Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 2: 401–424. Cuvier, Georges (1817). "Sixié ordre des mammiféres. Les pachydermes". Le règne animal distribué d'après son...
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    Palladio: mis en françois: dans lesquels, aprés un petit traitté des cinq ordres, avec quelques-unes des plus nécessaires observations pour bien bastir,...
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    pawnshops are ascribed to Cobergher : Cort verhaal van de oprechtinghe, ordre ende beleyt van de Bergen van Bermherticheyt (Brussels, 1619) (Short narrative...
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    le poulpe colossal. [second edition] François Beauval, Paris. OCLC 84108264 (in French) Heuvelmans, B. (2003). The Kraken and the Colossal Octopus: In...
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    Jacques Charpentier (category Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    Thomas Aquinas, which occupied him for two years. In 1957 he undertook a colossal work dedicated to the 72 Carnatic styles of India, the basic scales of...
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  • Malcolm Rogers (curator) (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Commander, Order of the British Empire, United Kingdom (2003) Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2007) Apollo magazine’s "Personality of...
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    Mussolini's endeavors, saying: They know that Benito Mussolini is constructing a colossal empire which will put the Roman Empire in the shade. We shall put up ....
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    Spring), 1963 Michel Brault – Canada Pour la suite du monde, 1963 Orders (Les Ordres) 1975 The Paper Wedding (Les Noces de papier), 1990 Pierre Perrault – Canada...
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