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    The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d(ə) sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It...
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  • Thumbnail for Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks"
    Concerto in E-flat, inscribed Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38 (1937–38) is a chamber concerto by Igor Stravinsky, named for the Dumbarton Oaks estate of Robert Woods...
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    DC, Dumbarton Oaks, 1974). See also "Château de Conflans à Charenton-le-Pont". Abbé Legendre, Vita Francisci de Harlay (Paris, 1720) and Eloge de Harlay...
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    the seventeenth century. His father was Jacques Mollet, gardener at the Château d'Anet, where Italian Renaissance gardening was introduced to France and...
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    Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country...
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    Castle (redirect from Château-fort)
    site, such as Chinon, Château de Coucy and Château Gaillard. When it was built in 992 in France the stone tower at Château de Langeais was 16 metres...
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    de Chamblain. Château de Meudon, officially from 1715 Château de Chaville, officially from 1715 Château d'Anet. Monumental staircase for the duc de Venôme...
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    Unknown crusader castles by Kristian Molin, Hambledon Continuum, 2001 Château de Servantikar en Cilicie - an article in French Servantikar at Forteresses...
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    Black-figure vase painting by Exekias, ca. 540 BCE. Currently in the Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. The suicide of Ajax. Etruscan red-figured...
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    Earl of Lennox, 6th Seigneur d'Aubigny (c. 1542 – 26 May 1583) of the Château d'Aubigny at Aubigny-sur-Nère in the ancient province of Berry, France...
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    the end of the Reign of Terror. Pierre de Nolhac, the historian of the Château de Versailles, in Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette (1914), found Mique to...
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    children were given the surname Beaufort from their birthplace at the Château de Beaufort in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Henry's relationship with his...
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    Orangery (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Mariemont, Orangerie of the Domaine de Mariemont (ca. 1850 in its present form) Seneffe, Orangerie of the Château de Seneffe (ca. 1765) Darmstadt, Orangerie...
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  • Brazil Group of Six (G6), heads of government 1975 – 1st G6 summit, Château de Rambouillet Group of Seven (G7), heads of government 1976 – 2nd G7 summit...
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  • Thumbnail for Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France
    France, taking ship at Dumbarton, following an agreement contracted at Haddington on 7 July 1548 by Henri Cleutin and André de Montalembert with the Regent...
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    elaborate fireplace with the crests of François I and Claude de France, in the Salle du Roi, Château of Blois, Blois, France, unknown architect, 1515-1524 Assumption...
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    Byzantium". Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 168. ISBN 9780884022701. Melissa Calaresu; Filippo de Vivo; Joan-Pau Rubiés (2010)...
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    Headline. ISBN 0747227357. Nown, Graham (1997). Laphroaig: No Half Measures. Dumbarton: D. Johnston & Co. ISBN 0946555427. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. p. 119. ISBN 0-88402-284-6. Bowersock...
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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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    proxy wedding of James V and Mary of Guise was held on 9 May 1538 at the Château de Châteaudun. Some 2,000 Scottish lords and barons came from Scotland aboard...
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    "Beatrice Ashley Chanler — Dumbarton Oaks". www.doaks.org. "Lafayette Memorial - Lafayette - Château Musée". www.chateau-lafayette.com. Beatrice Chanler...
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    Lady Fleming went to Dumbarton Castle on the Clyde and sailed to France. When Jean Sinclair wrote to Mary of Guise from the Château de Blois in 1553 she...
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    Tuileries, Paris (1664) Bois de Boulogne, Paris (1852) Place des Vosges, Paris (1682) Chateau Fontainebleau Château de Marly Château de Villandry Parc Jean-Jacques...
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    acquired another around 1370. Duke René of Anjou made his own at his Château de Baugé, in the Loire valley, in 1477. He was also famous for his gardens...
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    July 1559. He was first imprisoned in the Château de Vincennes and transferred in March 1560 to the Château d'Amboise wrapped in a blanket. In September...
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    "Crusader Frescoes at Crac des Chevaliers and Marqab Castle", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 36, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University: 177–210, doi:10.2307/1291467...
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    Mamluks. Tortosa was evacuated on 3 August and Château Pèlerin on the 14 August. Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay continued to appeal to the West for...
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    "The importance of André Mollet" fig. 20, in The French Formal Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, 1974. "A Little Chaos: Leads historical accuracy down the garden...
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