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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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    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Jean-François Champollion (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Åkerblad, Johan David (1802). Lettre sur l'inscription Égyptienne de Rosette: adressée au citoyen Silvestre de Sacy, Professeur de langue arabe à l'École spéciale...
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    receive much of the credit for whatever Champollion ultimately produced. In private correspondence shortly after the reading of the Lettre, Young quoted a...
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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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    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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    Incas", in: Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres II (1746), Berlin 1748, S. 435–456 (PDF). La figure de la terre déterminée (Paris...
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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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    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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    Lettres: 1612-1647 (in French). Collection XIX. ISBN 978-2-346-08006-9. Brémond d'Ars, Guy (vicomte de), Le père de Madame de Rambouillet, Jean de Vivonne:...
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    Thomas Bangalter (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    also co-produced and co-wrote two tracks from Matthieu Chedid's 2019 album Lettre infinie, while also mastering the album. Later in 2018, Alan Braxe and Benjamin...
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    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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    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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