Nantes (/nɒ̃t/, US also /nɑːnt(s)/; French: [nɑ̃t] ; Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt [nɑ̃(ː)t]; Breton: Naoned [ˈnãunət]) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department...
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Mathurin Crucy (category Architects from Nantes)
Jardinier Place Royale, Nantes Place Graslin, Nantes Design of a project for "public mineral water baths" for the Prix de Rome, 1774 1780–88 : Place Graslin...
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pedestrians in his white van at the Christmas market of the French city of Nantes, before attempting suicide by stabbing himself. Ten people, including the...
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on Nantes, France. These bombings constituted the deadliest and most destructive air raids to be carried out in the Nantes area (comprising Nantes and...
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Nicollière-Teijeiro, Stéphane (1865). Église royale et collégiale de Notre-Dame de Nantes (in French). Nantes: Vincent Forest et Émile Grimaud. pp. 86–87...
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parts of the Place Royale [fr] and the Rue du Calvaire [fr], which runs along the northern side of the latter. Paul Caillaud, director of Nantes' passive...
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designer of the Sainte-Croix church belfry and the fountain on Place Royale in Nantes, temporarily oversaw the hospital's renovation after 1834. M. Dulac...
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force of approximately 18,000 decisively defeated the Armée Catholique et Royale force of 6,000 at Savenay. After a crushing defeat at the battle of Le Mans...
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: 234 1950–51: Participation in trade exhibitions in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes, Quimper and Clermont-Ferrand: 243 1967: Roger Seguin designed an advertising...
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René de Cornulier-Lucinière (category Mayors of Nantes)
(in French), Impr. royale, retrieved 2018-07-20 Perthuis; Nicolliere-Tejeiro (1873), Le Livre Doré de l'Hotel de Ville de Nantes avec les armoiries et...
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Ségolène Royal (redirect from Segouleme Royale)
explanation that she did not hear "the offending remarks" – the discussion took place via an interpreter supplied by the Lebanese parliament. In the same visit...
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Claude Makélélé (category FC Nantes players)
playing career, which ended at Paris Saint-Germain, Makélélé also played for Nantes, Marseille, Celta Vigo, Real Madrid and Chelsea. He won league titles in...
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Right and Left Banks of the city. Henry IV also built the Place Royale (known since 1800 as Place des Vosges), and added the Grande Galerie to the Louvre...
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Charles Errard (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
engraver, writer, as well as co-founder and later director of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was also the Director of the French Academy...
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faith and had no more open mistresses. In 1686, she founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school for girls from impoverished noble families, which...
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third, a daughter, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, became Mademoiselle de Nantes and, in 1685, married the son of the head of the House of Condé, a cadet...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (redirect from Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis)
The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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motor scooter that he used to leave Besançon, and moved to Nantes. When he arrived in Nantes, Belbenoît was out of work, but soon began work as a valet...
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Anne of Brittany (category Nobility from Nantes)
Duchess of Milan, in 1499–1500 and from 1500 to 1512. Anne was raised in Nantes during a series of conflicts in which the King of France sought to assert...
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Philippe Thys (footballer) (category Royale Union Tubize-Braine non-playing staff)
1979–1980 INF Vichy 1980–1985 Metz 151 (2) 1985–1987 RC Paris 54 (2) 1987–1988 Nantes 35 (1) 1988–1990 Marseille 49 (2) 1990–1993 Toulon 84 (2) 1993–1995 Strasbourg...
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Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé (redirect from Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Nantes)
mistress. Before her marriage, she was known at court as Mademoiselle de Nantes. Married at the age of 11, Louise Françoise became known as Madame la Duchesse...
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Rahim Redcar (category Musicians from Nantes)
Chris or Redcar), is a French singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Nantes, he started learning piano at the age of four and found inspiration in one...
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Hyacinthe Rigaud (category Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture)
was included in the scholarship. Rigaud was received into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1710, and he rose to the top of this institution...
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Richelieu were determined the marriage would take place. The wedding ceremony was celebrated in Nantes, on 6 August 1626, in the presence of Louis XIII...
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Paris (category Populated places established in the 3rd century BC)
Tuileries Palace, and created the first Paris residential square, the Place Royale, now Place des Vosges. In spite of Henry IV's efforts to improve city circulation...
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uniformity of religion under the Catholic Church. His revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished the rights of the Huguenot Protestant minority and subjected them...
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Thomas Henry (footballer) (category Royale Union Tubize-Braine players)
Henry began his career at Beauvais and Fréjus Saint-Raphaël before joining Nantes in 2015. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 12 December 2015 against Toulouse...
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His effective market reforms included the foundation of the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs in 1665 to supplant the importation of Venetian glass...
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The Royal Cathedral of Saint Denis, Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis, was the traditional burial place of the kings of France since the 7th century and...
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In the summer of 1793, while he and his men were storming the city of Nantes, Cathelineau was shot down by a sniper and died soon afterwards. Without...
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