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    paleontology and is located in the city of Le Havre in the Normandy region of France. The Natural History Museum of Le Havre was founded in 1837–1838 by Charles...
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  • Le Havre was founded on 8 October 1517 as a new port by royal command of François I partly to replace the historic harbours of Harfleur and Honfleur which...
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    Charles Alexandre Lesueur (category Scientists from Le Havre)
    January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering...
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    Le Havre (/lə ˈhɑːv(rə)/ lə HAHV(-rə); French: [lə ɑvʁ(ə)] ; Norman: Hâvre [ ˈhɑvʁ(ə)]) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in...
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    Achille Urbain (category National Museum of Natural History (France) people)
    born in Le Havre. In 1906 he obtained his degree from the national veterinary school at Lyon, afterwards attaining a bachelor's degree in natural sciences...
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  • Naturelle du Havre, Le Havre Natural History Museum of Nantes Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen, Rouen Muséum d'Histoire...
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    Impression, Sunrise (category Stolen works of art)
    of the Impressionist movement. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown. It is usually displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet...
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    The museum, inaugurated in 1961 by the Minister of Culture, André Malraux, was one of the key elements of the reconstruction of Le Havre. The museum was...
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    The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (French pronunciation: [myzeɔm nasjɔnal distwaʁ...
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    (1800–1803) as a draughtsman, and ended his life as curator of the Natural History Museum of Le Havre. The painter Michel Garnier [fr] took part in the same...
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    founding member of the Friends of the Le Havre Museum. He served as the curator of the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography of Le Havre. Lennier was...
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    Nicolas Baudin (category Circumnavigators of the globe)
    Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988. Bonnemains...
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    Paul-Émile Botta (category Archaeologists of the Near East)
    The Heros under Captain Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly (1790–1849) left Le Havre April 8, 1826, and sailed south through the Atlantic Ocean, stopping in...
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    Havre-Saint-Pierre (French pronunciation: [avʁ sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]) is a municipality located on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Côte-Nord region...
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    Étretat (redirect from Cliffs of Étretat)
    Normandy region of Northwestern France. It is a tourist and farming town situated about 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D 940,...
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    population, as of 2006, was 2,809. The hamlet of L’Île-du-Havre-Aubert is made up of the island of Havre-Aubert and the island of L’ Île-d’Entrée. Havre-aux-Maisons...
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    Hope Diamond (redirect from Le Bijou du Roi)
    donated it in 1958 to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where it remains on permanent exhibition...
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    Museum of Art Ship entering the Harbor at Le Havre, 1903. Dallas Museum of Art The Fish Market, Dieppe: Grey Weather, Morning, c 1902. Dallas Museum of...
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  • Teleosaurus (category Jurassic reptiles of Europe)
    especially on those around Le Havre and Honfleur, with remarks on the skeletons of the saurians of Thuringia [in French] Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle...
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    buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital...
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    Claude Monet (category Artists from Le Havre)
    like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early...
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    Michel Dubocage (category People from Le Havre)
    charting Clipperton Island. Dubocage was born in the Notre-Dame quartier of Le Havre to ship captain Nicolas Dubocage and Marie Dufresnil. Dubocage went sea...
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    Gracilineustes (category Late Jurassic crocodylomorphs of Europe)
    Le Havre 12: 17-98. Andrews CW. 1913. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part Two. London: British Museum (Natural History)...
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  • Bernard Heuvelmans (category Writers from Le Havre)
    Ignorées) is often regarded as one of the most influential cryptozoology texts. Heuvelmans was born on 10 October 1916 in Le Havre, France, and raised in Belgium...
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    industrial sites and its large seaport, which merged with the ports of Le Havre and Paris in 2021 to form the HAROPA Port. Endowed with a prestige established...
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    Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (category National Museum of Natural History (France) people)
    in the chair of natural history at the museum. Two years later, on the death of Cuvier, he obtained the chair of comparative anatomy, of which he proved...
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    known as "le Marais" (the Marshlands), crosses from east to west from just north west of Saint Lo and east of Lessay and marks a natural border with...
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    l'Orangerie (English: Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next...
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    Normandy (category Former provinces of France)
    inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans; the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Caen, Le Havre and...
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    Red Ball Express (category African-American history of the United States military)
    supply tracks. The Green Diamond operated in the region of Cherbourg; the White Ball from Le Havre to Paris; the Lions Express between Bayeux and Brussels;...
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