• Under the Ancien Régime, the goods of the House of Orléans (biens de la maison d'Orléans) comprised two distinct parts : the apanage and the "biens patrimoniaux"...
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    Duke of Orléans (12 May 1725 – 18 November 1785), known as le Gros (the Fat), was a French royal of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. The First...
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    with the House of Orléans, that composes the French royal family. Thus began a new dynastic branch of Brazil: Orléans-Braganza, which never had the opportunity...
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    grievances with the Orléans family. Author Charles Fenyvesi said that he was once told by an aristocratic lady that "I detest the Orléans." She continued...
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    of the House of Wittelsbach, granddaughter of King Louis III of Bavaria and wife of Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, the pretender of the Vassouras...
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    the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon...
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    inherited the title of Duke of Chartres. After his father's death in 1785, Philippe became the Duke of Orléans, head of the House of Orléans, one of the wealthiest...
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    Château de Neuilly (category House of Orléans)
    Monceau (also known as the "Folie de Chartres") (V arrondissement, Île de la Jatte). The House of Orléans especially liked the château de Neuilly, using...
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    referring to the outwardly easygoing, carefree nature of the residents. NOLA, the acronym for New Orleans, Louisiana. La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded...
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    This is a list of baked goods. Baked goods are foods made from dough or batter and cooked by baking, a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry...
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    Princess Clémentine of Orléans (French: Marie Clémentine Léopoldine Caroline Clotilde d'Orléans) (3 June 1817 – 16 February 1907), princess of Saxe-Coburg and...
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    followed from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Russia and the House of Orléans. The largest ever single order to date was made in 1925 by the Indian royalty...
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    much of the basis for the conflict. The Orléans branch of the family, also referred to as the House of Valois-Orléans, stemmed from Louis I, Duke of Orléans...
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    with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting customs duty on imported goods. A custom house was typically located in a...
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  • goods from Boston, New Orleans, and New York, but made direct cotton shipments to Liverpool, England. In 1850, House was one of the founders of the Houston...
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    on the building, designed to house multiple federal offices and store goods, began in 1848 and didn't finish until 1881 due to redesigns and the American...
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    showing the Palais-Royal before these alterations were made. When the Duke of Orléans died in 1701, his son became the head of the House of Orléans. The new...
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    Mad War (category Wars of succession involving the states and peoples of Europe)
    royal guard and placed the Duke of Orléans under house arrest at Gien. Having escaped from Gien on 17 January 1485, Louis of Orléans tried to invest Paris...
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    Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours. The climate is favorable most of the year, the river often acting as a line of demarcation in France's...
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    The Louisiana State Museum's 1850 House is an antebellum row house furnished to represent life in mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans. It is located at...
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  • Steak House". Columbus Monthly. List of coffeehouse chains List of ice cream parlor chains List of pizza chains List of restaurant chains List of revolving...
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    The Great New Orleans Fire (1788) (Spanish: Gran Incendio de Nueva Orleans, French: Grand incendie de La Nouvelle-Orléans) was a fire that destroyed 856...
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  • Visconti (redirect from House of visconti)
    (1210–1276), Pope Gregory X Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371–1408) Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus (c. 1357–before September 1393) Adriano Visconti...
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    The capture of New Orleans (April 25 – May 1, 1862) during the American Civil War was a turning point in the war that precipitated the capture of the...
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    p. 14 "LOUIS FERDINAND OF ROYAL FAMILY; Prince, Member of House of Bourbon-Orleans, Dies at 56 --Figured in Scandals". The New York Times. 23 June 1945...
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    Jean Lafitte (category Battle of New Orleans)
    or the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. By 1805, Laffite was operating a warehouse in New Orleans to help distribute the goods smuggled...
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    by the Duke of Orléans, who had married one of the seven, Françoise-Marie, the great-grandmother of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French. In the 18th...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province of Quebec)
    following the Peace of Utrecht, the Duke of Orléans ceded Acadia and Plaisance Bay to Great Britain, but retained Île Saint-Jean, and Île-Royale where the Fortress...
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    Ottawa (redirect from The weather in Ottawa)
    and Orléans Express. The City of Ottawa has over 12,200 km (7,600 mi) lane-kilometres of road and a series of freeways. The primary freeways are the east–west...
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    the development of faster methods of transporting goods, the economy of New Orleans has been in a steady decline. As a result, New Orleans came to rely on...
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