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    Viscount (redirect from Vicomte)
    sometimes left untranslated as vicomte [vi.kɔ̃t]. The word viscount comes from Old French visconte (Modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin...
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    The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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    The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard [lə vikɔ̃t də bʁaʒəlɔn u diz‿ɑ̃ ply taʁ]) is a novel...
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    Ouilly-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [uji lə vikɔ̃t] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Communes...
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    François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French...
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    Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal...
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    from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two amoral lovers-turned-rivals who amuse themselves by ruining...
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    Alexandre-Francois-Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais by Georges Rouget (1834)...
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    Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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    Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də sɛ̃ sovœʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a ruined castle in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Manche...
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    Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sovœʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is...
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    Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 1611 – 27 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne [ty.ʁɛn], was a French general and one of...
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  • Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. Raoul is a viscount...
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    Henri, vicomte de Bornier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də bɔʁnje]; 25 December 1825, Lunel – 28 January 1901, Paris) was a French poet and dramatist....
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    Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec (1485 – 15 August 1528) was a French military leader. As Marshal of France, he commanded the campaign to conquer Naples...
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    Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, 1st Viscount of Martignac (20 June 1778  – 3 April 1832) was a moderate royalist French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration...
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    Delphine de Girardin (24 January 1804 – 29 June 1855), pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French writer. de Girardin was born in Aachen, and christened...
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    Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac (French pronunciation: [ʒak maʁi də kavɛɲak]; 1773–1855) was a French general. He was the brother of Jean Baptiste Cavaignac...
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    Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, painted by Gilbert Stuart, 1798. Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734 – 30 October 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis...
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    novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised...
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    Gaston François Marie, Viscount Eyskens (1 April 1905 – 3 January 1988) was a Christian democratic politician and prime minister of Belgium. He was also...
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    medicine (p. 80). CRC Press. ISBN 9780203014189. Retrieved 12 March 2012. "Vicomte Ilya Prigogine (Obituary, The Telegraph)". The Daily Telegraph. 5 June...
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    Marie-Eugène-Melchior, vicomte de Vogüé (25 February 1848 – 29 March 1910) was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist...
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    Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald (2 October 1754 — 23 November 1840) was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician. He is mainly...
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    Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 1802 – 24 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was...
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  • titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask. In the four-volume edition, the novels are titled The Vicomte de Bragelonne...
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    André Boniface Louis Riqueti, Vicomte de Mirabeau (30 November 1754 – 15 September 1792), son of Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau and brother of...
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    the beginning of Duke William’s reign the vicomte of the Bessin was Rannulf, who was the son of a vicomte named Anschitil. He married a daughter of Duke...
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  • Laurent Vicomte (25 March 1956 – 9 August 2020) was a French comic book author. Despite his relatively small quantity of series published, he won numerous...
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