• Thumbnail for Antoine Escalin des Aimars
    French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1547, and "Général des Galères" ("General of the galleys") from 1544. Polin was noticed by Guillaume du...
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  • Thumbnail for Arsenal des galères
    The Arsenal des Galères (lit. French for Galleys Arsenal) is a former military arsenal located in Marseille, France. It was built by Colbert in the second...
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  • Thumbnail for Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine
    Marie d'Orléans. In 1688, Louis Auguste was made a capitaine général des galères (General of Galleys). Several potential brides were considered for him...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean Philippe d'Orléans
    allowed his father to create him the général des galères on 27 August 1716. Jean Philippe remained the general till his death in 1748, when the charge...
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    standard-bearer of the Oriflamme (Royal Standard) in battle. General of the Galleys ("Général des Galères"), military position in charge of the galleys. Grand...
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  • Thumbnail for French galley La Réale (1694)
    La Réale est destinée en France pour le général des galères, et elle a l'étendard royale qui la distingue des autres. Cet étendard est de figure carrée...
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    Groesquer Emmanuel Marie-des-Neiges de Rohan-Polduc (1725-1797), ambassador, général des galères, baillif of Justice, general of the land and naval forces...
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  • de Tessé, Marshal of France, général des Galères 1703–1704 : Antoine V de Gramont, Marshal of France, colonel général des Gardes Françaises 1704–1734 :...
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    provision his fleet. Five French galleys, under the command of the "Général des galères" Captain Polin, accompanied Barbarossa’s fleet, on a diplomatic mission...
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    fleet's flagship was traditionally the Réale, flying the flag of général des galères [fr] (a grand-officer of the crown of France), as seen at the Musée...
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  • Thumbnail for Louis Victor de Rochechouart, Duke of Vivonne
    the field, Louis Victor was campaigning on the galleys becoming général des galères in March 1669, partly due to the influence of his sister la Belle...
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  • Thumbnail for Albert de Gondi
    he had 10 children: Charles (1569-1596), marquis de Belle-Isle, général des Galères de France, who married Antoinette d'Orléans-Longueville; Claude-Marguerite...
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  • Éric Deschodt (category Prix des Deux Magots winners)
    novels. 1977: Les Demoiselles sauvages, Paris, JC Lattès 1979: Le Général des galères, JC Lattès 1981: Les Îles captives, JC Lattès 1982: La Gloire au...
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  • Thumbnail for French galley La Réale (1538)
    Royal galley of the 16th century. In 1544, Captain Polin, "Général des galères" ("General of the galleys"), took five French galleys, including the superb...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Pont du Feneau
    they were probably close to 500 or 600. The injured included the Général des Galères, Pierre de Gondi, having received two pistol shots to the shoulder;...
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    "Bohémiens condamnés aux galères à l'époque du Roi-Soleil (1677 à 1715)". Criminocorpus. Revue d'Histoire de la justice, des crimes et des peines (in French)...
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  • Thumbnail for Claude Catherine de Clermont
    she had 10 children: Charles (1569-1596), marquis de Belle-Isle, général des Galères de France; Claude-Marguerite (1570-1650), who married Florimond,...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean Armand de Maillé, 2nd Marquis of Brézé
    , vol. 26 La Bruyère, René, La marine de Richelieu; Maillé-Brézé, général des galères, grand amiral (1619-1646), Plon, Paris, 1945, 245 pages. v t e...
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  • Thumbnail for Henri du Couëdic de Kerérant
    of his ancestors was Ollivier du Couëdic de Kerdrain, Secrétaire Général des galéres, during the Regency (from 1713 until 1738) in France. His grandson...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean-Marie Le Pen
    ISSN 1634-5495. Mas, Marie-Laure (2 February 2012). "1981-2007. Le FN face à la "galère" des 500 signatures". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 4 June 2024. de...
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  • Thumbnail for Château d'If
    Château d'If (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
    (1800–2000)—Les pérégrinations posthumes des restes du général Kléber (in French). ISBN 2-913302-08-4. "Centre Des Monuments Nationaux". If.monuments-nationaux...
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  • daughter of Jean Leroy, conseiller du Roi et contrôleur général de la marine du Levant et des galères de France. His younger brother, father Jean-Paul de...
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  • Thumbnail for Michel Bégon (naturalist)
    4 November 1684, the date of his nomination to the post of intendant des galères at Marseille. Michel V was seigneur of Picardière and Mirbelin (or Murbelaix)...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène
    daughter of Jean Leroy, conseiller du Roi et contrôleur général de la marine du Levant et des galères de France. His elder brother, Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène...
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  • Dés. Broodthaers had lived in poverty as a poet in Brussels for twenty years before becoming an artist in 1964. His first exhibition, at the Galere Saint-Laurent...
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  • and Morlaàs. The Général des Monnaies (English: General of the Mint), also known as a Général Provincial (English: Provincial General), was title for the...
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  • Thumbnail for Arch of Galerius and Rotunda
    Service archéologique d'Armée d'Orient a l'arc de triomphe de Galère & à l'arc de triomphe de Galère et à l'église Saint-Georges de Salonique". Καραμπερη, Μ...
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  • Thumbnail for Popular Republican Union (2007)
    February 2012. Retrieved on 1 October 2013 Yann Thompson, Européennes: la galère des petits candidats, France Télévisions, 21 May 2014 Laure Daussy (24 September...
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  • Thumbnail for Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Anville
    in the galley corps (corps des galères), transferring into the French navy in 1734, and he was appointed lieutenant general of in January 1745. D'Anville...
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  • Thumbnail for Jacques Cousteau
    Underwater Studies and Research Group), then the COMISMER (Commandement des Interventions Sous la Mer, Undersea Interventions Command), and finally the...
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