• Nicolas Jacques Pelletier (c. 1756 – 25 April 1792) was a French highwayman who was the first person to be executed by guillotine. Pelletier routinely...
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  • the Aborigines. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, French highwayman, first person executed by guillotine in France Pedro Eugenio Pelletier, French-born Dominican...
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    The first execution by guillotine was performed on a highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792 in front of what is now Place de l'Hôtel de Ville...
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  • recent government-sanctioned guillotine execution in the world. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, the first person to be executed by guillotine in France in 1792...
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    1792, Sanson inaugurated the era of the guillotine by executing Nicolas Jacques Pelletier for robbery and assault at the Place de Grève. The use of the...
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    first person executed by the guillotine in France was highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier in April 1792. The last execution was of murderer Hamida Djandoubi...
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  • Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier (Latin: Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician...
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    Place de Grève saw the first use of the guillotine, when robber Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was decapitated on 25 April 1792. Other notable executions included...
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    Barre (1766) – beheaded and burnt in Abbeville for blasphemy Nicolas Jacques Pelletier (1792) – highwayman convicted of murder. First person to be guillotined...
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    more humane and egalitarian. The guillotine was first used on Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792. Guillotine usage then spread to other countries...
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  • Kingdom known as "Swift Nick" Neesy O'Haughan 1691–1720 Ireland Nicolas Jacques Pelletier 1756–1792 France He was the first person executed by guillotine...
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    monks. He did have the opportunity to become friends with the poet Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Then he probably went to college Saint-Benoît. The college...
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    organist. In 1857, at the age of 15, Pelletier succeeded Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis II as organist at Saint-Jacques Cathedral. He remained there for the...
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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1683, the new controller general of finances, Pelletier, ordered him to make an investigation of the financial affairs of the...
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  • number exceeded 2,000. Jacques Pierre Abbatucci (général de division) Jean-Charles Abbatucci (général de brigade) Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé (général de division)...
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    wares from the Pelletier Clan associated with the Rock Machine, but had recently switched to the Hells Angels, and as a result the Pelletier Clan hired a...
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    (1651–1690) , followed his father as Secretary of State of the Navy Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1654–1707) , Archbishop of Rouen. Jean-Jules-Armand Colbert...
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    Pierre Dulin 1698 – Nicolas de Poilly the Younger (1675—1747) 1699 – Pierre-Jacques Cazes 1700 – Alexis Simon Belle 1701 – Nicolas Hordubois [fr] 1702...
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    François Gérard (category Pupils of Jacques-Louis David)
    the studio of the history painter Nicolas-Guy Brenet, whom he quit almost immediately to place himself under Jacques-Louis David. In 1789, he competed...
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  • Louis Molé, 1813–1814 Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey, April–May, 1814 Charles-Henri Dambray, 1814–1815 Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, March–June...
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  • 1978, Girod was appointed to the Senate following the appointment of Jacques Pelletier to the cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Barre. He was re-elected...
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  • Intergovernmental Affairs: Benoît Pelletier Municipal Affairs and Regions: Nathalie Normandeau (2005–2007) Democratic Institutions Reform: Jacques P. Dupuis (2003–2005)...
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    Democracy, London, Kessinger Publishing, 2003 Herissay, Jacques, L'assassinat de Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, Paris, Ed. Emile-Paul Frères, 1934 Le...
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  • A Room in Town (category Films directed by Jacques Demy)
    she is herself upper-class, born a baroness. His girlfriend Violette Pelletier, who works in a shop and lives with her mother, wants to get married but...
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    The Payen PA-22 was a French experimental aircraft designed by Nicolas Roland Payen. The aircraft had an unconventional design: it had a set of delta...
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  • which creates system from 1032 upwards invalid. Nicolas Chuquet – Mathematician Jacques Pelletier du Mans – Humanist, Poet, Mathematician Knuth's up-arrow...
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    Christian Faure Le premier venu Real Estate Dealer Jacques Doillon Trouble at Timpetill The delivery guy Nicolas Bary 2009 Incognito The driver Éric Lavaine...
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  • position of Superintendent of Finances was abolished following the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet; his powers were transferred to First Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert...
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  • ley (1963) - Jean Farand Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964) - Colonel Emile Pelletier / Legrand Quand passent les faisans (1965) - Chinaud (uncredited) Les...
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    Bruce Mather : Poème du Délire. Jack Behrens : Aspects. Louis-Philippe Pelletier, Paul Helmer, François Couture, pianos sous la direction de Bruce Mather...
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