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    discovered there by geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821. Until 13 August 1958, the commune was officially named Les Baux. Renamed after the historical province...
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    the natural fortress on which the family built their castle, the Château des Baux and the village that surrounded it. The escarpment provided a raised and...
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    Marquisses of Baux. Pons the Younger (born c. 950, fl. 971-1028), father of Hugh I (born c. 970 – after 1059), father of William Hugh of Baux [fr] French:...
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    Prince Jacques, Hereditary Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux (Jacques Honoré Rainier Grimaldi; born 10 December 2014), is the heir apparent to the Monegasque...
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    Prince Pierre of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois (born Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac; 24 October 1895 – 10 November 1964)...
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    of the laboratory in 1816. In 1821, while working in the village of Les Baux-de-Provence, in southern France, he discovered the rock bauxite, named for...
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    Provence Footprint Focus Guide: Includes Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Les Baux, Camargue, Footprint Travel Guides, 2014, p. 51 [3] City of Aix-en-Provence:...
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    April 2005: His Serene Highness The Hereditary Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux 31 March – 6 April 2005: His Serene Highness The Prince Regent of Monaco...
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    Tinguely, Feb. 2011, Basel, Switzerland Arman-in les Baux de Provence, July-Oct. 2011, Les Baux-de-Provence 2013 Cycles, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York...
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    in southern France from 885-1150. The house was succeeded by the House of Baux due to a lack of male heirs. In the tenth century, Guillaume the Liberator...
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    perhaps the old chapel for the Château des Baux, of which there remains no trace, and the church "Saint-Pierre-de-Gallègue". This church was probably...
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    Les Baux-Sainte-Croix (French pronunciation: [le bo sɛ̃t kʁwa]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. Communes of the Eure...
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    d'agglomération Terre de Provence Communauté de communes Vallée des Baux-Alpilles BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020....
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  • named Rue des Baux for Gilles des Baux. Apologie pour les Bains d'Aix (Aix-en-Provence: Jean Courraud, 1600). Association généalogique des Bouches-du-Rhône...
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  • Barral of Baux (died 1268) was Viscount of Marseilles and Lord of Baux. He was the son of Hugh III of Baux, Viscount of Marseilles, and Barrale. Barral...
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    Jacqueline Cartier, and included authors and personalities like Pierre Cardin, Guy des Cars, and Francis Fehr. From 1982 to 1986, he was a victim of illegal...
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    et du Verre aux Baux-de-Provence – artéMédia Archived 21 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine La Céramique des années cinquante de Pierre Staudenmeyer "Céramiques...
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    Jean-François Séguier (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    ancient inscriptions of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes. Jean-François Séguier, Pierre Baux, lettres : 1733-1756. The standard author abbreviation Ség. is used to...
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    Castelnau or Chasselnou, French: Pierre de Châteauneuf) was a minor troubadour from Provence. He was a client of the lords of Baux. His one surviving piece,...
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    Jean Valz and the grandson of the doctor, meteorologist and naturalist Pierre Baux (1708–1790). He became interested in astronomy and comets in particular...
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  • times. In medieval times Puyricard was part of the fiefdom of the Lords of Baux. Ruins of their ancestral castle, remodelled in the seventeenth century as...
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    Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (category Marquesses of Baux)
    Palace of Monaco, the only son of Hereditary Princess Charlotte and Prince Pierre. During his reign, he was responsible for the transformation of Monaco's...
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    white, or tan. In 1821, the French geologist Pierre Berthier discovered bauxite near the village of Les Baux in Provence, southern France. Numerous classification...
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    INSEE codes, are: Arles (13004) Aureille (13006) Barbentane (13010) Les Baux-de-Provence (13011) Boulbon (13017) Cabannes (13018) Châteaurenard (13027)...
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    fortified city that, in 1223, became the property of the Seigneurie des Les Baux-de-Provence. In the 15th century, Cassis was ceded to the Counts of Provence;...
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    Blacas (category House of Baux)
    surname). The first Blacas, Pierre d'Aulps, is said to have participated in the First Crusade and to have stemmed from the House of Baux, whose arms are similar...
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  • Nice  • Roquebrune-Cap-Martin  • Roquefort-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Baux  • L'Empéri  • If  • Ners  • Tarascon  • Vernègues Var (83) Pontevès Vaucluse...
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    Toulouse x Belletrude des Baux │ └─> Emenon x Ermengarde de Béziers │ └─> Rostaing ├─> Emenon │ ├─> Guillaume │ │ │ ├─> Pierre │ │ │ ├─> Rostaing, lord...
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    a British model and actress of Polish descent, Zofia Borucka, at the Les Baux-de-Provence city hall. The presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy served...
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    developed into a summer school that was later moved to his summer home in Les Baux in the south of France. After moving permanently to the US in 1942 and taking...
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