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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Count of St. Germain (redirect from Comte de Saint-Germain)
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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Kerguelen Islands (redirect from Grande Terre de Kerguelen)
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 Défense (redirect from La Défense, Île-de-France)
[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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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine)
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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Catacombs of Paris (redirect from Catacombes de Paris)
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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Covered passages of Paris (redirect from Passages couverts de Paris)
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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French and Indian War (redirect from Guerre de la conquete)
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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Grande Arche (redirect from Arche de la Defense)
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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Lycée Louis-le-Grand (redirect from Collège de Clermont)
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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