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    7°00′01″S 156°57′50″E / 7.00028°S 156.96389°E / -7.00028; 156.96389 Choiseul Province is one of the nine provinces of Solomon Islands. It lies southeast...
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    into eleven quarters or parishes, i.e. Castries, Anse Laraye, Soufriere, Choiseul, Laborie, Vieux Fort, Micoud, Praslin, Dennery, Dauphin, and Gros-ilet...
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    L'affaire de Mademoiselle de Choiseul – was even brought before the Parlement de Paris. Augustine Françoise de Choiseul was the ward of the Marquise de Hautefort...
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    The Île de la Cité (French: [il d(ə) la site]; English: City Island, lit. "Island of the City"), 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, is one of the two natural...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    unique entity. To address this problem, the parent "District de la région parisienne" ('district of the Paris region') was reorganised into several new...
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    Duc de Belle-Isle and possibly of Madame de Pompadour, who were trying to outmanoeuvre the French Foreign Minister, the pro-Austrian Duc de Choiseul. However...
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    Histoire de la Turquie (1854) Cours familier de littérature (1856) Poetry portal French demonstration of 15 May 1848 Lamartine Place Historic District in Manhattan...
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    Kerguelens. Île Saint-Lanne Gramont, is to the west of Île Foch in the Golfe Choiseul. It has an area of 45.8 km2 (17+11⁄16 sq mi). Its highest point reaches...
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    The Marais (redirect from Marais district)
    nobles, such as the Prince de Soubise, lived there. The Place des Vosges remained a place for nobles to meet. The district fell into disrepair after the...
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    [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits. It is located in Île-de-France...
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    Praslin (redirect from Île De Palme)
    it was renamed Praslin in honor of French diplomat César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin. Praslin is known as a tourist destination with several hotels...
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    hard to teach". Under the recommendation of Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, a strong supporter of her prospective marriage, Maria Antonia...
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  • Just de Beauvau, 4th Prince of Beauvau and, his first wife, Lucie-Virginie de Choiseul (1794–1834). Among his younger siblings were Prince Etienne de Beauvau-Craon...
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    clique and the Choiseul party. About this time, too, appeared a pamphlet, Le Songe de M. Maurepas, generally ascribed to the comte de Provence (Louis...
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    The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris, pronunciation) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six...
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    Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˈtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/; French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince...
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  • Vivienne in 1840. As a child, Louis-Ferdinand Céline lived in the Passage Choiseul. The passages were the subject of Walter Benjamin's incomplete magnum-opus...
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    48°52′N 2°15′E / 48.86°N 2.25°E / 48.86; 2.25 The Bois de Boulogne (French pronunciation: [bwɑ d(ə) bulɔɲ], "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park...
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    Saint Lucia (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    districts placed in alphabetical order: Anse la Raye Canaries Castries Choiseul Dennery Gros Islet Laborie Micoud Soufrière Vieux Fort Saint Lucia is a...
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  • In 1999, Pompougnac published his first studio mix, Costes: France et Choiseul. Pompougnac's second studio mix, Costes: La Suite outsold his previous...
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    2°25′58.50″E / 48.8280694°N 2.4329167°E / 48.8280694; 2.4329167 The Bois de Vincennes (French pronunciation: [bwɑ d(ə) vɛ̃sɛn]), located on the eastern...
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    Marshal of France. In 1771, he was called by Louis XV to replace Duc de Choiseul to the position of Secretary of State for War. In the three years of...
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    the French decided to send a large expedition to Guiana, commanded by Choiseul. Around 10,000 to 12,000 people, mostly Frenchmen, tempted by stories of...
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    Sébastiani de La Porta, parents of Françoise, Duchess of Praslin, who was believed to have been murdered by her husband, Charles de Choiseul, 5th Duke...
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    the Choiseul ministries, and after their emancipation at the end of 1760, they retained a large number of officers issued from the Ministère de la Guerre...
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    1758 in most theaters of the war. The new foreign minister was the duc de Choiseul, and he decided to focus on an invasion of Britain to draw British resources...
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    Tennis Court Oath (French: serment du jeu de paume) in the Saint-Louis district Versailles Cathedral Éléphante de Louis XIV The name "Versailles", first...
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    addition to the Passage des Panoramas – the Galerie Vivienne, the Passage Choiseul, the Galerie Colbert, the Passage des Princes, the Passage du Grand Cerf...
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    in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply...
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    alumni include: statesmen the Cardinal de Fleury, the Duc de Choiseul, the Cardinal de Bernis, the Chancelier de Maupeou, Charles Carroll of Carrollton...
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