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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...
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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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    as the Observatoire du Pic de Château Renard, the Observatoire de Saint-Véran was built in 1974 on top of the Pic de Château Renard (2,900 m or 9,500 ft)...
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    the nearby Château de Meudon and has played an important role in the development of French aviation. The story of aviation at Chalais-Meudon starts in...
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    Meudon-Bellevue, 1750-2000 : du château de la marquise de Pompadour aux laboratoires du CNRS, Presses du CNRS. Paul Biver, Histoire du château de Bellevue...
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    frequent and the disease progressed quickly. Louis Joseph died at the Château de Meudon on 4 June 1789, aged seven and a half, during the Estates General...
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    appointed governor of the Château de Meudon from 1706 until his death. He also co-directed the Paris Opera with Jean-Nicolas de Francine, at the beginning...
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    " Places where Massialot served banquets included the Château de Sceaux, the Château de Meudon, and Versailles. An innovation in Massialot's book was...
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    Mary of Guise (redirect from Marie de Guise)
    congratulations to "la Royne, ma mere" ("the Queen, my mother") from the Château de Meudon at Easter, where she was staying with her grandmother and her uncle...
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  • gardens of the Château de Meudon owned by the Grand Dauphin. Denis Talon died in 1698. The following year, on 4 February 1699, François Louis de Bourbon, Prince...
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    in Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!), and is a feature of the gardens of the Château de Meudon, circa 1700. In a letter to Daniel Dering in 1724, John Perceval (grandfather...
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    residences, she was also given the use of the Château de Meudon after giving back to the Crown the Château d'Amboise, which had been the official country...
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    château passed in 1693 to le Grand Dauphin, who had some interior modifications executed (Kimball 1943 p 51) before exchanging it in 1695 for Meudon,...
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    Fils de France ("Son of France") he was entitled to the style of Royal Highness. He was baptised on 24 March 1662 at the chapel of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    the Château de St Maur-des-Fossés, the Château d'Anet, the Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley; the royal Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne;...
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    Fontainebleau, Château d'Anet, Château de Meudon, and Les Invalides. In 1704, he decorated the new apartment of the Duchess at the Château de Sceaux. Audran...
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    Penny]) and was reported in the 17th century to have come from the Château de Meudon. Richard Cooper (2016). Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65...
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    father-in-law Le Grand Dauphin caught smallpox and died on 14 April at the Château de Meudon. Upon the death of Le Grand Dauphin, Marie Adélaïde's husband became...
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    at the Château de Meudon. At Meudon, she became close to Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, princesse d'Epinoy and her older sister, Mademoiselle de Lillebonne...
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    Baroque (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Gaudí, which poses great significance to the city. Meudon Observatory, Château de Meudon, Meudon, France, an example of an early Rococo building from...
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    The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Dijon) (category Paintings in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon)
    Paillet at Versailles in 1695 and by another source as being in the Château de Meudon early in the 18th century, where it still hung in 1706. Dezallier...
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    of the gardens of Château de Meudon for François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, and in 1691 redid the garden of the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan in Paris...
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    of Austria, on her father's side, and that of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici, on her mother's side. In his turn, Philip III was the son of Philip...
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    of the Château de Clagny, built for Madame de Montespan (1674–1680)] Château de Dampierre Château de Marly Pavillon Mansart in Vanves Chateau du Val in...
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    be little doubt that he was eclipsed, and even expelled from the Château de Meudon by Cardinal Dubois. He survived for more than thirty years, but little...
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    Cleves, who was desired by Henry IV. The couple were married at the Château de Meudon. Conti died in 1614 and the title of Prince of Conti lapsed following...
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    Jouarre Louise Marguerite, (1588 – April 30, 1631, Château d'Eu), married at the Château de Meudon on July 24, 1605 François, Prince of Conti François...
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    Grand Dauphin, initially displaying them in the château de Choisy then from 1695 in the château de Meudon. Wallace Collection, London - pair, one of the...
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    Château de Clagny (1674–1680) Château de Meudon Château de Cordès (1695) Château de Braine Château de Montmirail [fr] Château de Pontchartrain Château du Raincy...
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  • France, and the modernization project of the observatory, set in the Château de Meudon had just started; feeders and racks of the stables where the laboratories...
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