Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/tiˈɛər/ tee-AIR, French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and...
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The Hotel Le Plaza is a five-star luxury hotel in the Marais–Jacqmain Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Built in an Art Deco style with Louis XVI interiors...
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City of Brussels (section Marais–Jacqmain Quarter)
Catherine's Church La Bellone Few of the buildings in the Marais–Jacqmain Quarter (French: Quartier Marais–Jacqmain, Dutch: Jacqmain–Broekwijk) have escaped 20th-century...
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squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris,...
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The Boulevard Adolphe Max (French: [bul.vaʁ a.dɔlf maks]) or Adolphe Maxlaan (Dutch) is a central boulevard in Brussels, Belgium. It was created following...
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1956) Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833–1900) Frédéric Acquaviva (born 1967) Adolphe Adam (1803–1856) François d'Agincourt (1684–1758) Léopold Aimon (1779–1866)...
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Rue des Archives (category Le Marais)
Archives is a street in The Marais at the border of 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris, France. The street is located in Le Marais district of central Paris...
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the palais and the Seine is set with gardens, designed by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, and an array of fountains. Within its garden, the old palace contained...
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Kennedy; Yale Univ. Press, 1989; p. 345. Kennedy, 1989; p. 345. Thiers, Adolphe (1865). History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon...
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César François Adolphe d'Houdetot (31 August 1799 – 30 July 1869) was a 19th-century French writer, author of numerous books on hunting. The son of general...
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area enclosed on the right bank increased to include the mansions of the Marais and the Templar enclosure. The new city limits totaled 439 hectares across...
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on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012. Reader, K. (2020). The Marais: The Story of a Quartier. United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press.p.74...
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regime of Napoleon III, it was built according to plans by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, who created all the major parks for Haussmann's renovation of...
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704) Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) Marin Marais (1656–1728) Michel Richard Delalande (1657–1726) André Campra (1660–1744)...
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adventure film written and directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Jean Marais, Geneviève Grad and Gérard Barray. The scenario was based on the 1863 novel...
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All Fired Up (1982), Subway (1985), Ishtar (1987), Diabolique (1996), Adolphe (2002), Bon voyage (2003), French Women (2014), The World Is Yours (2018)...
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Louvois, Opéra Library, and Arsenal Library. The Bibliothèque Forney, in the Marais district, is dedicated to the decorative arts; the Arsenal Library occupies...
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which his predecessor had just signed before his death. Alexandre Gady, Le Marais: historical and architectural guide , Paris, Carré editions,1994, p 288...
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retour des cendres orchestrated by king Louis-Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers (the reference to Napoleon's cendres or "ashes" is actually to his...
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blamed Georges Danton. Danton was also accused by later French historians Adolphe Thiers, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Michelet, Louis Blanc and Edgar Quinet...
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (category Le Marais)
the museum in the Marais was a conscious one. Since the end of the 18th century, a large population of Jews has lived in the Marais. At first, these were...
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1640–1690), whose students included the French gamba virtuoso and composer Marin Marais. Also, the painting Saint Cecilia with an Angel (1618) by Domenichino (1581–1641)...
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(Black Magic, 1949) Howard Vernon (Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, 1972) Jean Marais (Joseph Balsamo [fr], 1973, TV miniseries) Bekim Fehmiu (Cagliostro, 1975)...
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including some of the most important figures of the arts, such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. A petition...
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the local cemetery (Cimetière communal de Port-Joinville). The poet Marc-Adolphe Guégan, an early French exponent of haiku, lived on the island until his...
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Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III. The Avenue was built by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the chief engineer of the Service of Promenades and Plantations...
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Noémie Lenoir Max Linder Sheryfa Luna Marcel Marceau Sophie Marceau Jean Marais Jean-Pierre Marielle Ali Marhyar Olivier Martinez Jean-Baptiste Maunier...
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Ebondzibato (1962–1964) Vasily Sokolov (1964–1965) Paul Ebondzibato (1965–1970) Adolphe Bibanzoulou (1970–1973) Robert Ndoudi (1973–1974) Cicerone Manolache (1974–1976)...
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National de Chaillot, mise en scene by Christian Colin with Grégoire Colin "Marais," narrator—an audio walking tour of the Paris neighborhood. Created by Soundwalk...
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Alphonse Bertillon was born in Paris. He was a son of statistician Louis-Adolphe Bertillon and younger brother of the statistician and demographer Jacques...
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