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    Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor...
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    Léonard Joseph (Léon) Faucher (French: [leɔ̃ foʃe]; 8 September 1803 – 14 December 1854) was a French politician and economist. Faucher was born at Limoges...
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  • bacteriologist, the binomial authority for the Salmonella genus of bacteria. Joseph Léon Marcel Lignières was born in Saint-Mihiel, Meuse. He studied at the École...
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    Charles Léon Denuelle de la Plaigne, Count Léon (13 December 1806 – 14 April 1881) was an illegitimate son of Emperor Napoleon of France and Napoleon's...
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  • Joseph-Léon Deslières (June 12, 1893 – March 9, 1986) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sutton, Quebec and...
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  • One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hall from Léon and has stopped...
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  • Joseph Leon Blau (May 6, 1909 – December 28, 1986) was an American scholar of Jewish history and philosophy. Blau was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended...
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    Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (French: [dəgʁɛl]; 15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to...
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  • François Joseph Léon de Herckenrode (1818–1880) was a Belgian genealogist. Herckenrode was born in Huy on 15 March 1818, the son of Auguste-Joseph de Herckenrode...
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    Joseph Léon Talabot (5 February 1796 – 23 September 1863) was a French engineer, iron master and politician. He advocated protectionist policies to maintain...
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    Marcel Louis Henry Joseph Léon Courmes (13 June 1885 – 5 May 1950) was a French military officer and aviator during the First World War, and subsequently...
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  • Henri Joseph Léon Baudrillart (1821–1892) was a French economist. He was born in Paris on 28 November 1821. His father, Jacques Joseph (1774-1832), was...
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  • Joseph-Léon Saint-Jacques (July 13, 1877 – September 24, 1964) was a Canadian provincial politician. He was the Conservative member of the Legislative...
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  • Spanish provinces León, Salamanca, and Zamora Viscounty of Léon, a feudal state in France during the 11th to 13th centuries Saint-Pol-de-Léon, a commune in...
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    Jean Joseph Léon Farcot (23 June 1824 – 19 March 1908) was a French engineer and industrialist whose factories employed up to 700 workers. He was also...
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    Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒɔʁɛs] ; Occitan: Joan Jaurés...
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  • Joseph-Léon-Vital Mallette (16 September 1888 – 17 April 1939) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Pointe-Claire...
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  • Joseph Léon de La Marthonie (Saint-Germain-du-Seudre, 27 March 1727 — Saintes, Charente-Maritime, 6 August 1789) was a French Navy officer. He served...
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  • Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American...
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    Jean-Léon Gérôme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ leɔ̃ ʒeʁom]; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism...
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  • Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor. Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946,...
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    Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (French pronunciation: [leɔnʒozɛf ʃavaljo]; 29 January 1858 – 5 February 1919) was a French sculptor. He created several notable...
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  • Leon Joseph Koerner (May 24, 1892 – September 26, 1972) was a Czechoslovakian-born industrialist and philanthropist in British Columbia. He was born in...
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  • Marie Joseph Léon Désiré Pâque (21 May 1867 – 20 November 1939) was a Belgian composer, organist and academic. Pâque was born in Liège, and studied organ...
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    an inspiration for the character of Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. Léon Rom was born to a poor family in Mons, Belgium, in...
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  • Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846) was a French illustrator and lithographer, also an archaeologist and curator at the Louvre museum. Léon-Jean-Joseph...
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    London: Hodder and Stoughton. pp. 64–65. Jan Grootaers, "Suenens, Joseph-Léon, dit Léon-Joseph", in Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, vol. 6 (Brussels, 2001),...
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    consideration as hockey's hometown rages on in Canada, as a premier takes issue Joseph "Joe" L. Handley, MLA (born August 9, 1943), is a former teacher, politician...
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  • Lieutenant Honoré Marie Joseph Léon Guillaume de Bonald, Vicomte de La Rode (13 August 1894 – 7 December 1977) was a French World War I flying ace credited...
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  • Joseph Leon Mathieu Perez (born c.1896) was a judge from Trinidad and Tobago who was appointed by Elizabeth II as the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago...
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