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    Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʒuʁdɑ̃]; 29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), was a French military commander...
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    Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʃuman]; 29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian...
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    Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de Morville (30 October 1686, in Paris – 2 February 1732) was a French statesman. Son of Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville...
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    Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated...
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    Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, 1st duc de Cadore (4 August 1756 – 3 July 1834) was a French admiral and politician. He was born in Roanne, Loire...
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    Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin (born 24 March 1720, Périgueux; died 16 September 1792, Spa, Belgium) was a French statesman, and controller general...
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    contemporary tapestry. He was born in Bruyères, Vosges, the son of Lucien Jean Baptiste Lurçat and Marie Emilie Marguerite L'Hote. He was the brother of André...
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    Jean-Yves Le Drian (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ iv lə dʁijɑ̃]; born 30 June 1947) is a French politician who served as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs...
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    sufficient courage to vote against the readmission to the Convention of Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai and other survivors of the Girondin party, who he...
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    Generals Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (a veteran of the American War of Independence and a future Marshal), Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Jean-Baptiste Kléber and...
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    great-grandfather was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. His father, Jean-Baptiste Darlan, was a lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice...
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    views, Felicite became the French Minister of Foreign Affairs under Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle in December 1821. He recommended...
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    Achille Fould Alexandre Colonna-Walewski Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Emperor's Household Achille Fould Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Ministers of State...
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    Pierre Jean Marie Laval (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laval]; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France...
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  • Written by Quoc Dang Tran Anastasia Heinzl Directed by Benjamin Rocher Jean-Baptiste Saurel Composer François Liétout Country of origin France Original language...
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    XVI Preceded by The Duke of La Vrillère Succeeded by Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin Personal details Born 31 July 1720 Paris, Kingdom of France Died...
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    l'abbé Dubois et les Anglais (1891); and memoirs of the time. He is played by Jean Rochefort in the movie by Bertrand Tavernier, Que la fête commence... Historical...
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    faction, supporting liberal politics, and coming into conflict with the Jean-Baptiste de Villèle Cabinet. After the July Revolution, he endorsed Louis-Philippe...
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    in Aeon digital magazine (December 2012) "Languages Revealing Worlds and Selves" in The Times Literary Supplement (September 2017) C'est une chose sérieuse...
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    Secretary of State for Development and International Partnerships, and Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for Europe, and Franck Riester, Minister Delegate...
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    (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 439. GROS, Jean-Baptiste Louis, baron (1793–1870), ambassadeur. Extract from the Dictionnaire...
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    ten volumes in 1720. To a lesser degree, he drew on the Voyages of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and Paul Rycaut, not to mention many other works which his...
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    design it. He attracted Domenico Trezzini, Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond and Andreas Schlüter. To improve his nation's position...
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    Petite République, leaving it to found L'Humanité, in collaboration with Jean Jaurès. At the same time he was prominent in the movement for the formation...
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    Maurice Couyba – Minister of Labour and Social Security Provisions Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin – Minister of Justice Armand Gauthier de l'Aude – Minister...
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    Madelin, Louis. Talleyrand (1948), a scholarly biography. online Orieux, Jean. Talleyrand: The Art of Survival (1974) 677pp; scholarly biography Pflaum...
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    of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist...
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  • Season 2 CH8 "Panic at the Park" "Panique au Parc" Jean-Baptiste Erramuzpe Written by : Jean-Baptiste Erramuzpe Storyboarded by : Esther Brustlein...
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    Achille Fould Alexandre Colonna-Walewski Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Emperor's Household Achille Fould Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Ministers of State...
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    November 1797 Jean François Philibert Rossée 21 November 1797 21 December 1797 Jean-Baptiste Marragon 21 December 1797 20 January 1798 Jean Rousseau 20...
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