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    Xavier Desandre Navarre (born 11 October 1961), a.k.a. XDN, is a French jazz musician, percussionist and drummer. Xavier Desandre Navarre was born in Paris...
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    débauché). In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau in March 1719, Voltaire concludes by asking that, if Rousseau wishes to send him a return letter, he do...
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    Francis II of Brittany and his second wife Margaret of Foix, Infanta of Navarre. Four years later (before 10 May 1481), her parents had a second daughter...
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    Voltaire Lycées: Lycée Polyvalent de La Tourelle and Lycée Polyvalent J.J. Rousseau Others: I.U.T (Institut universitaire de technologie), C.I.O (Centre d'information...
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    lovers. It featured the elite of international jazz, with performances by Didier Lockwood, Trilok Gurtu, Brad Mehldau, Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo, Richard...
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    Louis XIV and l'Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations, in 1756. Rousseau became known in 1750 by the publication of Discours sur les sciences et...
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    the peasants had no bread, and who responded: 'Let them eat brioche'"). Rousseau ascribes these words to a "great princess", but the purported writing date...
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  • Poitiers (fl.1484) Mellin de Saint-Gelais (c.1491–1558) Marguerite de Navarre (c.1492–1549) Clément Marot (c.1496–1544) Bonaventure des Périers (c.1500–1544)...
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    the area extending from the mouth of the Bidassoa to the border between Navarre and Aragon.[citation needed] The city built three light railway lines to...
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    Antoine de Bourbon and his wife Jeanne d'Albret, heir to the kingdom of Navarre, stayed at their Château-Neuf in La Flèche on several occasions, in the...
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss writer, philosopher, social and educational theorist, descended from Huguenot wine merchant, Didier Rousseau, Jean-Jacques...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1991 – Armande Gobry-Valle, Iblis ou la défroque du serpent 1992 – Nita Rousseau, Les iris bleus 1993 – Bernard Chambaz, L'arbre de vies 1994 – Bernard...
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    Naudé, Nortjé (Nortier), Pienaar (Pinard), Retief (Retif), Roux, Rossouw (Rousseau), Taljaard (Taillard), TerBlanche, Theron, Viljoen (Vilion) and Visagie...
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    Press De Man, Paul (1979), Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust ISBN 0-300-02845-8 Descombes, Vincent, Proust:...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    établi par Louis Moland, Garnier (1883), Paris, pp. 146–147 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les Confessions, Livre septième (1741), H. Launette et Cie., Éditeurs...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    and scholars. The Café Procope was frequented by Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Diderot and d’Alembert. They became important centres for exchanging news...
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    2023-06-12. "Brigitte Giraud". Le Livre à Metz. Retrieved 2023-06-12. Rousseau, Christine (3 November 2022). "Le Goncourt récompense Brigitte Giraud pour...
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    the King's traditional sculptors, Jacques Verbeckt and Jules-Antoine Rousseau, were replaced by a new artist, Honoré Guibert, who worked "in the Grec...
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    NDiaye polémique avec Marie Darrieussecq", Libération, 3 March 1998. Ingrid Rousseau, "Novelist NDiaye wins France's top literary prize", Seattle Times, 2 November...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    Boyson, R. (2017). Goulbourne, R.; Higgins, D. (eds.). Jean-Jacques Rousseau and British Romanticism: Gender and Selfhood, Politics and Nation. London:...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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    1976–2000 1976 Patrick Grainville 1977 Didier Decoin 1978 Patrick Modiano 1979 Antonine Maillet 1980 Yves Navarre 1981 Lucien Bodard 1982 Dominique Fernandez...
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