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    Pierre-Étienne Flandin (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ etjɛn flɑ̃dɛ̃]; 12 April 1889 – 13 June 1958) was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic...
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  • Véronique Claudel Vincent Defrasne Marie Dorin Habert Thierry Dusserre Hervé Flandin Martin Fourcade Delphyne Heymann Lionel Laurent Vincent Jay Gilles Marguet...
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    Minister of France. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. The name Matignon is often used as a metonym for the governmental...
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    programmes closed down for the night. The new French Minister of the PTT of the Flandin Government, Georges Mandel, during a visit to the general manager of the...
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    government in 1940. The second government was formed by Pierre-Étienne Flandin, and lasted just two months until February 1941. François Darlan was then...
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    January 2016. Leur, Thierry Van de. Parisis Code – tome 2 – Le Code secret des rues de Paris. Lulu.com. ISBN 979-1-09-128903-0. Archived from the original on...
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    headquarters in the old Communist Party headquarters at 44 rue Le Peletier and at 61 rue Monceau. (The house was formerly owned by the Menier family...
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    Antoine Crozat as well as his brother Pierre's grand Hôtel de Crozat on the rue de Richelieu, and proved a most devoted wife. Choiseul gained the favour...
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    governed from the Ministry of War on Rue Saint-Dominique. Almost his first act as prime minister was to relieve General Maurice Sarrail from his command of the...
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    engraved on the Arc de Triomphe's West pillar, and a street in Paris is named Rue Caulaincourt in his honor. His eldest son served as a senator during the...
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    Guichard district), Juliette Récamier to the North (Brotteaux district), Maurice Flandin to the East (La Villette district) and the former La Buire automotive...
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    his uncles. In 1859, an uncle who was interested in Albert Pel, Master Flandin, a lawyer at Moûtiers, proposed to send him to Paris to finish his education...
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    indoor sports arena at the corner of the boulevard de Grenelle [fr] and rue Nélaton [fr] in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Eiffel...
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    The rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup was a Nazi raid and mass arrest of Jews in Lyon's Sainte-Catherine street by the Gestapo. The raid, ordered and personally...
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    known under the pseudonym of "Masuy", and Henri Lafont, head of the gang at rue Lauriston [fr], which became known as the Carlingue. Another notable collaborator...
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    offices of the prominent Swiss banker Jean-Frédéric Perregaux (1744–1808), rue du Sentier, where he was hired as a bookkeeper. It was a starting position...
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    Cameroun n'a pas oublié Archived 3 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Rue 89, 30 August 2007 (in French) Byrnes, Melissa K. (26 May 2019). "Diplomacy...
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    Édouard and Jacques. Beirut still holds his name on one of its major streets, Rue Weygand. France: Légion d'honneur Knight (10 July 191?) Officer (10 December...
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    3406/ihtp.1996.2355. Tartakowsky, Danielle (1997). Les manifestations de rue en France 1918-1968. Histoire de la France au XIXe et au XXe siècle (in French)...
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    Villepin, 1814–1885, un Lorrain émigré à Paris au XIXe siècle (Paris (21 rue Surcouf, 75007) : P. de Villepin, 1986) 1987: Villepin, Patrick de, "Maintenir" :...
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    attempted against the Union Libérale Israélite de France, a synagogue in the rue Copernic, Paris; however the bomb detonated in the street when the Jews attending...
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    fraternity. In his final years, he lived as a recluse in an apartment at 120 rue du Bac, Paris, leaving his house only to pay visits to Juliette Récamier...
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    of the memorial associations. Only the Infirmary, currently located at 2 rue de Pontournois, has been preserved, and serves as a residence. The guard...
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  • secretary of the Blum government, and Georges Pernot, minister of the Flandin government in 1930 and member of the Republican Federation (center-right)...
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    seven synagogues. The Synagogue de la rue de Tournelle [sic], Synagogue de la rue Montespan [sic], Synagogue de la rue Copernic, Synagogue de Notre-Dame de...
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  • other jobs, he worked as Minister's chief of staff for Pierre-Étienne Flandin. Guy Lavaud (1883 - 1958) was a French symbolist poet whose style was characterized...
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  • différentes, et des fichiers professionnels par nationalité et par rue. » Citations Maurice Rajsfus, La Police de Vichy — Les forces de l'ordre françaises...
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    rue Amelot in Paris is known for the June 1940 meeting of Jewish immigrant organisations which formed the Amelot Street Committee (Comité de la rue Amelot)...
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    to one of five centres (Caserne Napoléon, Caserne des Minimes, Rue Edouard-Pailleron, rue de la Grange aux Belles or gymnase Japy) on 14 May 1941, accompanied...
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    on September 10, 1940, when the PFNC inaugurated its new headquarters at Rue de l'Arcade, 20, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Clémenti informed the...
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