• Common eider, Somateria mollissima (eider à duvet) Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (macreuse à front blanc) (A) Velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca (macreuse...
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    Canvasback (fuligule à dos blanc), Aythya valisineria Redhead (fuligule à tête rouge), Aythya americana Ring-necked duck (fuligule à collier), Aythya collaris...
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    Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène (1843). Projet de restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris. Imprimerie Lacombe. Leproux, Guy-Michel (2001). La peinture à Paris sous...
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  • vol. IX, no 1, 1939, p. 348 La Savoie de l'an mil à la Réforme 1984, pp. 299–300, « Le premier duc de Savoie (1416) ». Roger Devos, Bernard Grosperrin...
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  • eider (eider à duvet), Somateria mollissima Harlequin duck (arlequin plongeur), Histrionicus histrionicus Surf scoter (macreuse à front blanc), Melanitta...
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    1871, the reconstruction resumed, under Duc and Honoré Daumet, and continued for more than twenty years. Duc completed the façade of Harlay, while Daumet...
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    disdain of architects and writers, a style deemed obsolete, and the faulty acoustics of the assembly hall. Viollet-le-Duc nevertheless championed the project...
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    Ficedula albicollis - (Gobemouche à collier) passage migrant Common redstart - Phoenicurus phoenicurus - (Rougequeue à front blanc) passage migrant Black redstart...
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    Louise-Gabrielle, Duchesse de Choiseul, née de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière (1665–1698), and of the Duc de Choiseul. Furthermore, two years later, on 7 June...
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    Paris (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Wright 2006, pp. 93–94. Borrus 2012, p. 288. "A la découverte du Petit Luxembourg" [Discovering Petit Luxembourg] (in French). Senat.fr. Archived from...
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    attributes of prudence Most of the Western front is a monumental composition designed from 1847 by Joseph-Louis Duc and Etienne Theodore Dommey for the Cour...
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    In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to...
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    Viollet-le-Duc continued working on the Abbey until his death in 1879, and replaced many of the creations conceived by Debret. Viollet-le-Duc focused on...
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    Choiseul. The queen did play a decisive role in the disgrace and exile of the most powerful of Louis XV's ministers, the Duc d'Aiguillon. On 24 May 1774...
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    Louis, duc d'Enghien (later known as le Grand Condé) at the Battle of Lens, Mazarin, on Queen Anne's insistence, arrested certain members in a show of...
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    Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1500) Sainte-Chapelle, in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité (now part of a later administrative...
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    Franc, providing a spectrum of flavors and textures that complement a wide array of dishes. Lighter wines like Bordeaux Blanc or a light-bodied Bordeaux...
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    de Cassation, a kind of French Supreme Court, looks over the Place Dauphine. Its highly theatrical facade was designed by Joseph-Louis Duc, whose other...
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    del Trocadero, in southern Spain, was captured by French forces led by the Duc d'Angoulême, son of the future King of France, Charles X, on 31 August 1823...
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  • par la communauté vietnamienne, Le Petit Journal, 2017 (in French) Les français d'origine vietnamienne de retour à Saigon, La Croix, 2013 (in French)...
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    Carla Milo in Les Grands Ducs by Patrice Leconte, with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort and Michel Blanc. She starred in the movie...
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    the Duc d'Enghien in 1804 by William Miller after J. M. W. Turner Anonymous watercolour of the moat. The weeping willow marks the spot where the Duc d'Enghien...
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    Cyrano de Bergerac (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    play suggests that he was injured by a falling wooden beam in 1654 while entering the house of his patron, the Duc D'Arpajon. However the academic and...
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  • The Charles-Blanc Prize (French: Prix Charles Blanc) was an annual award of the Académie Française for the author(s) of works in the fields of History...
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    Lesure's 2001 revised catalog (as a supplement to the revised edition of his Debussy biography) omitted the composition Ballade à la lune without explanation...
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    Kiese) (1985) Aï Aï Aï La Bombe Éclate (with Rigo Star) (1987) Glamour (with Duc Hérode) (1993) Wake Up (with Papa Wemba) (1996) Sans Rature (with Didier...
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    Paris in the Belle Époque (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
     632-634. Petit Robert 1988, p. 1377. "Anciens sénateurs IIIème République : HUGO Victor". www.senat.fr. Petit Robert 1988, p. 1597. Petit Robert 1988...
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    premiers ducs de Normandie "]. Caen, Impr. F. Le Blanc-Hardel. p. 191. Wace; Andresen, Hugo (1877). Maistre Wace's Roman de Rou et des Ducs de Normandie:...
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    Broglie, the Orleanist duc de Broglie, became prime minister. Unintentionally, the Monarchists had replaced an absolute monarchy by a parliamentary one. Feb...
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    importance of his architectural and decorative works. Guimard was a disciple of Viollet le Duc. Hector Guimard was born in Lyon on 10 March 1867. His father...
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