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    Pierre Jacques Étienne, 1st Viscount Cambronne (26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842), was a general of the First French Empire. A main strategist of the...
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    is named after the nearby Place Cambronne and Rue Cambronne, which were in turn named after Viscount Pierre Cambronne (1770–1842), a general at the Battle...
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    actually be the officer who uttered the words often attributed to Pierre Cambronne "La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas" "The Guard dies, and does not surrender"...
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  • Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy Yevgeny Samoylov as Brigadier-General Pierre Cambronne Vladimir Druzhnikov as Général de Division Étienne Maurice Gérard Andrea...
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  • Haiti Pierre Cambronne (1770–1842), general of the French Empire France Cambronne (Paris Métro), elevated station of the Paris Métro Cambronne-lès-Clermont...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Muiron Alain Doutey as Marshal Michel Ney Serge Dupire as Pierre Cambronne Philippe Volter as Paul Barras Vincent Grass as Charles IV of Spain...
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    disintegrating French forces. He is remembered for capturing General Pierre Cambronne while his Osnabrück Battalion engaged the French Imperial Guard. After...
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    the supervision of General Antoine Drouot and commanded by General Pierre Cambronne and the staff headquarters. The navy consisted of 66 men and one ship:...
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  • apocryphal phrase was attributed to the Old Guard's commander, Pierre Cambronne, but Cambronne's actual reply was later asserted by other sources to be "Merde...
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    ("shit", figuratively "go to hell"), historic response of French General Pierre Cambronne to a request to surrender at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) "NUTS!"...
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    Rue de l'Héronnière). At the center of the square stands a statue of Pierre Cambronne, created by Nantes-born sculptor Jean Debay. The statue rests on a...
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    [Merde!]".(Masson 1869) The reply is commonly attributed to General Pierre Cambronne, originating from an attribution by the journalist Balison de Rougemont...
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    dies but does not surrender!") is generally attributed to General Pierre Cambronne. It has been suggested that this was in fact said by another general...
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    to surrender, Sergeant Vincent Morzycki responded in the spirit of Pierre Cambronne, with "Merde.": 79  After four hours of fighting, thirty-two Legionnaires...
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  • (camera). Pierre Cambronne, French general – The French word "cambronniser" and the expression "le mot de Cambronne" ("The word of Cambronne"), which both...
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  • the French general Pierre Cambronne at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The pose he takes while saying this is similar to Cambronne's statue in Nantes....
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    General Joseph Fouché (1763–1820), statesman, was educated there Pierre Cambronne (1770–1842), naval officer Floresca Guépin (1813–1889), feminist, teacher...
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    Gengembre [fr] Léon Bureau [fr] Louis Babin-Chevaye [fr] Grave of Pierre Cambronne Jules Désiré Colombe Cérède, Agathe (2021). "Cimetière de Miséricorde"...
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  • Claude de Cambronne (French pronunciation: [klod də kɑ̃bʁɔn]; 23 October 1905 – 31 January 1993) was a French businessman. He studied at the École nationale...
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  • Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) (1894–1954), photographer and author Pierre Cambronne, general (commander of the Old Guard at Waterloo) Jacques Cassard (1679–1740)...
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    scare into the Allies. At 5:00 am on 5 March, Guard cavalry divisions under Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais and Louis Marie Levesque de Laferrière surprised...
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    Ney before the chamber of peers. He undertook the defence of General Cambronne and General Debelle, procuring the acquittal of the former and the pardon...
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  • Arnouph Louis Joseph Deshayes de Cambronne (or Arnould or Arnoult) (b. March 26, 1768 in Crépy-en-Valois, Oise, d. 1846) was the major adjudant of the...
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  • that "man is by nature essentially 'zutique'". Dada Decadent movement Pierre Cambronne Poète maudit G Robb, Rimbaud (London 2001) p. 129 G Robb, Rimbaud (London...
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    and Cyrille-Simon Picquet's cavalry brigade. After General of Division Pierre Decouz was killed at the Battle of Brienne, General of Brigade Jean-Jacques...
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  • de Cambronne (born 1 May 1951, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French journalist, novelist and humanitarian. Descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne who...
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    XVI, Marie Antoinette, Émile Zola at the Dreyfus affair, Michel Ney, Pierre Cambronne, Raoul Villain(assassin of Jean Jaurès), and Alexandre Stavisky. It...
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    approximately along a northwest/southeast axis, it is situated between Cambronne and Pasteur stations. It is also geographically close to the Ségur Métro...
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  • Baroux as Louis XVIII Pierre Brasseur as Barras Jean Chevrier as Geraud Duroc Maurice Escande as Louis XV Noël Roquevert as Cambronne Jean Gabin as Lannes...
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    Cambronne-lès-Clermont (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃bʁɔn lɛ klɛʁmɔ̃], literally Cambronne near Clermont) is a commune in the Oise department in northern...
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