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    foal was named after the street Rue de Varenne, where the Italian embassy in Paris is located. Breeder of Varenne - Jean-Pierre Dubois, a successful French...
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    along the Rue de Varenne. He was a lover of gardens and intended to create a country park. In 1722, he commissioned a little-known architect, Jean Courtonne...
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    the defeated party. Along with his close friend Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, he sat at the extreme left of the Convention, attacking speculators and...
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    Georges Antoine Marie Piron de la Varenne (6 January 1888 - 15 October 1943) was a Belgian volunteer in the French Army in World War I (WWI), a member...
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    particuliers in Paris, notably the Hôtel de Clermont, Rue de Varenne, and the Hôtel de Vendôme, Rue d'Enfer (today Boulevard Saint-Michel). As theoretician...
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    Ministry of Culture. The Hôtel de Boisgelin is located at 47–49 on the Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The hôtel particulier as built in...
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    Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November 1685 – 5 December 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer...
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  • forestry. The Ministry's headquarters are in the Hôtel de Villeroy, at 78 Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, adjacent to Hotel Matignon. Prior...
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    Arc, by Jean-Paul Laurens (1901-1903). The previous Tours city hall was a four-story neo-classical building at Place Anatole-France and Rue Nationale...
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    point approximately 80 m beyond the Rue de Varenne and Rue de Sèvres was dug in 1869. The 90 m section from the Rue Stanislas was opened up by MM. Bernard...
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    architecture and ornamented with rocaille decoration. It was built in the Rue de Varenne, between 1727 and 1732. From 1788, the Hôtel was occupied by a series...
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    scientific instrument maker also named Étienne Lenoir. Lenoir died in La Varenne-Sainte-Hilaire on 4 August 1900. Hippomobile History of the internal combustion...
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    located at 77 rue de Varenne, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, that was built from 1727 to 1732, to the designs of the architect Jean Aubert. Since...
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    UNESCO Headquarters (EURESCO headquarters) Carré Marigny (stamp market) Varenne station (interior of the Saint-Jacques station) Palais-Royal (chase in...
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    that the journée of 31 May was not enough. At the Jacobins club, Billaud-Varenne echoed the sentiment, supposedly saying, "Our country is not saved; there...
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    Robespierrist) Claude Basire Francois Chabot Joseph Fouché Jean-Lambert Tallien Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne Bertrand Barère Anti-clericalism Left-wing populism...
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    support despite some initial opposition. Both Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, who opposed the printing of the speech, were...
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    Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from...
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    like Robespierre himself, were Jacobin: Fouché, Collot d'Herbois, Billaud-Varenne, Marat, Danton, Saint-Just. Three other powerful Montagnards were not known...
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    escape. Within 24 hours, the royal family was arrested at Varennes-en-Argonne shortly after Jean-Baptiste Drouet, who recognised the king from his profile...
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    convalescents of Charité", was located on the south-west corner of rue du Bac and rue de Varenne and had extensive gardens. It had its origins in a foundation...
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    of Saint-Jean-Longueuil. The basilica was decreed on June 18, 1993. GCatholic.org Official website Media related to Sainte-Anne de Varennes Basilica at...
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    parents already lived. The family lived in a hôtel particulier on the Rue de Varenne in Paris. But they also had an apartment near the Château de Versailles...
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    the Tuileries Palace in October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging...
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    Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes (born 18 April 1964), better known by her stage name Zazie, is a French pop singer and songwriter. Her greatest...
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    which was eventually situated in the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. Taking advantage of their oldest brother's fame, Jean-François and Pierre also adopted the...
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    of the present-day rue de Cléry, the Baron de Batz, a supporter of the former royal family who had financed the flight to Varennes, had summoned 300 royalists...
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    Castries is an hôtel particulier in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 72 Rue de Varenne. Dating from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century,...
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    Thouars (Deux-Sèvres), Tours (Indre-et-Loire), Vanves (Hauts de Seine), La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, (Val de Marne), Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), Wattignies...
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    brother Jean-François Autié accompanied the Duke de Choiseul during the royal family's flight to Varennes. After the royal family's arrest, Jean-François...
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