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    A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...
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    Banks portal BNP Paribas Société Générale Crédit Agricole Crédit Mutuel "Un nouveau siège en toutes lettres". Groupe BPCE. 24 March 2022. "2022 Universal...
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  • Thumbnail for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    Ambassadeurs Lettres à une jeune fille (1950) Lettres de jeunesse, 1923–1931 (1953) Lettres à l'amie inventée (1953) Carnets (1953) Lettres à sa mère (1955)...
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    between de Gaulle and Pétain over Le Soldat, a history of the French soldier which he had ghost-written and for which he wanted greater writing credit. He...
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    Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university and Grand établissement based in Paris, France. It...
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    French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst...
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    1555, 1556, 1557; Paraphrase de C. Galen sus l'exhortation de Menodote, 1557; Lettre de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, de Salon de Craux en Provence, A la Royne...
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    Arabes ?, Lettre civile et honnête à l'auteur malhonnête de la "Critique de l'histoire universelle de M. de Voltaire" (1760), dans Œuvres complètes de Voltaire...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    August 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2023. "De Las Cases à Jean Jaurès : Crédit Agricole S.A. à travers ses sièges". Crédit Agricole. 2011. Archived from the original...
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    Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (pronounced [ybɛʁ də ʒivɑ̃ʃi]; 20 February 1927 – 10 March 2018) was a French aristocrat and fashion designer...
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    "Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Œuvres) - aLaLettre". www.alalettre.com. Retrieved 10 July 2023. Bertaud, Jean-Paul (2003). Choderlos de Laclos l'auteur des...
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    doi:10.4169/math.mag.86.4.239. S2CID 117979730. Itard, Jean (1975). "La Lettre de Torricelli à Roberval d'Octobre 1643". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences....
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  • Thumbnail for Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
    Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo (French pronunciation: [ɡi(jom e)manɥɛl də ɔmɛm kʁisto]; born 8 February 1974) is a French musician, record...
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  • Stéphane Fontaine (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Features. "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres juillet 2015 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". www.culturecommunication.gouv...
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  • Thumbnail for Claude Favre de Vaugelas
    century, and François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer took a similar standpoint in his Lettres à Gabriel Naudé tombant les Remarques sur la langue française. Towards...
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  • Thumbnail for Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
    led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and Mirabeau was imprisoned in the Île de Ré. On being released, the young nobleman obtained...
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    (in French) (2nd ed.). — (1742). Eléments de la géographie (in French). — (1742). Lettre sur la comète de 1742 (in French). — (1743). Astronomie nautique :...
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    Silvestre de Sacy, Lettre au Citoyen Chaptal, Ministre de l'intérieur, Membre de l'Institut national des sciences et arts, etc: au sujet de l'inscription...
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    Verloren, Hilversum, Netherlands) Les écritures de l'ambassade: les Lettres turques d'Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Traduction annotée et étude littéraire...
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    projects including the Suez Canal, the Channel Tunnel, the Crédit Mobilier, and the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. Following Saint-Simon's...
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    1972 "Lettre à Maurice Toesca", in Cinq Ans de patience, Emile Paul Editeur, 1975. "Lettre au professeur Abdelkebir Khatibi", published in Figures de l'etranger...
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    2003–2006. Spicilège (Gleanings, 1715 onward) Lettres persanes (Persian Letters, 1721) Le Temple de Gnide (The Temple of Gnidos, a prose poem; 1725)...
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  • Ambatielos Prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1948) Croiset Prize of the Institut de France (1969) Langlois Prize of the Académie française...
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    part of the Crédit Agricole universal banking group. Following the early phases of the French conquest of Vietnam, the Comptoir d'escompte de Paris (CEP)...
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  • Thumbnail for Isaac de Pinto
    In 1768, Pinto sent a letter to Diderot on Du Jeu de Cartes. His Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit, in which he convinced many people that England was...
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  • Thumbnail for Chevalier de Saint-Georges
    (online presentation Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres. Vol 14, p. 39). (BNF 30044503) Banat 2006, p. 229-231. Ribbe...
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  • Thumbnail for Léa Seydoux
    to French cinema, starring in My Wife's Romance (Le Roman de ma femme) and Roses à crédit. In 2012, she starred in Farewell, My Queen. The film opened...
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    Retrieved 14 July 2006. Repentigny, Alain de (25 August 2008). "Alain de Repentigny : Céline Dion chante de l'opéra pour Kent Nagano | Musique". La Presse...
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  • Thumbnail for Samuel de Champlain
    (member, secretary, then president of l'Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle) wrote as early as 1867 that Rainguet's estimate...
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  • Thumbnail for André-Hercule de Fleury
    André-Hercule de Fleury (22 June or 26 June 1653 – 29 January 1743) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fréjus and as the chief minister...
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