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    Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (French pronunciation: [ja.nik ne.zɛ se.ɡɛ̃]; born Yannick Séguin; 6 March 1975) is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He is currently...
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  • Pierre Laporte (25 February 1921 – 17 October 1970) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician. He was deputy premier of the province of Quebec when...
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  • character in the novel The Revolution Script by Brian Moore, together with Pierre Laporte. Their names are changed by Moore out of respect for their families...
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    (1977–1981) Pierre Bleau (1981–1989) Michel Martin (1989–1990) Claude Girouard (1990–1993) François Grégoire (1993–1997) Marc Roy (1997–2017) Pierre Séguin (2017–present)...
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    Commissioner James Cross. In the subsequent negotiations, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and murdered by a cell of the FLQ. Public outcry and...
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    and thrilled audiences during 1863.[citation needed] In October 1852 Pierre Séguin, an artist, patented in France a portable peepshow-like toy for children...
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  • of the kidnapping and murder by strangulation of Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte in 1970. A Quebec government commission later determined in 1980...
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    sculptor and Nicholas Untersteller the painter of the interior frescoes. Pierre Seguin sculpted the column capitals. The Maumejan brothers did the stained...
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    during peacetime in Canada. Critics, such as Laurier LaPierre, accused Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's move to suspend habeas corpus as more of a reaction...
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    Just watch me (category Pierre Trudeau)
    "Just watch me" is a phrase made famous by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on October 13, 1970, during the October Crisis. The term is still regularly...
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    photogrammetric models can be called more properly, polyoscopy, after Pierre Seguin Photogrammetric data can be complemented with range data from other...
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  • Lortie, kidnapped and then murdered Quebec vice premier and cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. Believing many others would follow in an uprising, their goal was...
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  • Simard, kidnapped and then murdered Quebec Vice Premier and Cabinet Minister Pierre Laporte. Believing many others would follow in an uprising, the goal of...
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  • Yves Langlois (born 1947) a.k.a. Pierre Seguin was a Canadian terrorist and member of the Quebec terrorist group Front de libération du Québec (FLQ),...
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  • October Crisis (category Premiership of Pierre Trudeau)
    Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence. These events saw the Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoking...
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  • and declared Pierre Trudeau "a queer". On October 10, 1970, the Chénier Cell kidnapped the Vice-Premier of Quebec and Labour Minister, Pierre Laporte. The...
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  • kidnapped and then murdered Quebec Vice Premier and Cabinet Minister, Pierre Laporte. Believing many others would follow in an uprising, their goal was...
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  • Cossette-Trudel) Jacques Lanctôt Marc Carbonneau Yves Langlois (aka Pierre Seguin) Nigel Barry Hamer History of Quebec "CanadaHistory.com: FLQ". Archived...
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  • the cell. The Chénier cell of the FLQ kidnapped Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte in October 1970, as part of events that came to be known as the...
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    Lanctôt Yves Langlois (aka Pierre Seguin) Nigel Hamer Chénier Cell Bernard Lortie Paul Rose Francis Simard Jacques Rose Victims Pierre Laporte (kidnapped, murdered)...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8020-7838-4. Tousignant, Pierre; Dionne-Tousignant, Madeleine (1999), Les normes de Maurice Séguin : le théoricien du néo-nationalisme, Guérin...
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  • Patrick Seguin is a French gallery owner specialised in French architect-designed furniture of the 20th century, and founder of Galerie Patrick Seguin. He...
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    designated a monument historique by the French goverment. The sculptor, Pierre Seguin, was selected in 1924 to create the ornaments on the façade of the building...
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  • Jean-Pierre Goyer, PC QC (January 17, 1932 – May 24, 2011) was a lawyer and Canadian Cabinet minister. Goyer was born in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, the son...
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  • effects 1817 Kaleidoscope David Brewster 1822 Polyorama Panoptique Pierre Seguin? 1825 Thaumatrope William Henry Fitton? introduced by John Ayrton Paris...
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  • Established in 1989 by Patrick and Laurence Seguin, the Galerie Patrick Seguin is an art gallery in Paris's La Bastille district. Ateliers Jean Nouvel...
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  • FLQ Manifesto (category Pierre Trudeau)
    the Catholic Church, René Lévesque, and Robert Bourassa, and even branded Pierre Trudeau "a queer". Action: The October Crisis of 1970 The FLQ Manifesto...
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  • prison, Lemieux was angered by the delays. While defending FLQ terrorists Pierre Vallières and Charles Gagnon, he was fired from the law firm in January...
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    toy popular from the 1820s through to the 1850s. It was invented by Pierre Seguin as development of the earlier "protean view". The device was based on...
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    and banisters are by Émile Robert [fr]. The masks are by the sculptor Pierre Seguin. The building was listed as a historic monument on August 13, 1991,...
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