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    Jean-Charles Langlois (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl lɑ̃ɡlwa]; 22 July 1789 – 1870), known as The Colonel, was a French soldier and painter. Langlois...
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  • and 10th Guards armies The Battle of Smolensk, 1839 painting by Jean-Charles Langlois Siege of Smolensk (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Langlois or L'Anglois is a surname of French origin. Notable people with the surname include: Aimé Langlois (1880–1954), Liberal party member of the Canadian...
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  • early 1970s. More than an archivist, Langlois saved many films which were at risk of vanishing. Besides films, Langlois also helped to preserve other items...
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    meet with Catherine the Great. Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès, wife of Jean-Andoche Junot, described Poniatowski in his mid-twenties as having been:...
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    to reform his Grande Armée and wait for stragglers to catch up. General Jean-Andoche Junot replaced King Jérôme as commander of the Westphalian VIII Corps...
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    17 Aout 1812) is an 1839 history painting by the French artist Jean-Charles Langlois. It depicts the Battle of Smolensk fought on 17 August 1812 during...
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    of concrete, where horses would break their legs and wagons their wheels. Jean-François Boulart reported: Then on June 29th came a fresh and awful and extraordinary...
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    engagement that pitted the French Armée d'Orient under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Kléber against an Ottoman army at Heliopolis on 20 March 1800. The...
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    Charles Langlois (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lɑ̃ɡlwa]; 1692–1762) was a French actor who spent a large part of his career in Sweden, where he was to play...
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    French Revolutionary Wars. He served as aide-de-camp to Minister of War Jean Bernadotte in 1799. In 1805, he joined the I Corps of the Grande Armée assembled...
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    Espérance Langlois (1805–1864) Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837) Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870) Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872) Langlois de Sézanne...
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    carry respectively the Numbers 1 and 2 of the Archives of the Ministry. Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Relation de l'Expédition scientifique de...
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    Enlightenment, and he borrowed ideas from Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. When Korais was a young adult he moved to Paris to continue...
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    winter atmosphere in November. Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort focused on the troops of the French general Ricard. Jean-Charles Langlois, painter and soldier, captured...
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    19 August 1815. On 8 June 1816, he married Augustine, daughter of Baron Jean-François de Jujeals de Peyrac de Veillan. King Louis XVIII made him Baron...
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    emerged from the efforts of Henri Langlois and Lotte H. Eisner in the mid 1930s to collect and screen films. Langlois had acquired one of the largest collections...
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  • Fried Chicken (KFC) Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager Jean-Charles Langlois, a 19th-century French soldier and painter The Colonel (play), an...
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  • Claude Louis Langlois (13 June 1757 – c. 1845), known as Langlois de Sézanne, was a French portraitist and pastel artist. His portrait of Madame Morel...
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  • Battle of Leipzig Jean-Charles Langlois – The Battle of Smolensk Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence Daniel Maclise – Portrait of Charles Dickens Carl Spitzweg...
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    Headed by the steward Pyotr Potemkin, who had an audience with Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the embassy discussed the establishment of mutually beneficial...
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    (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher. Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870), soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic...
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  • went on a mission of photo reconnaissance to the Crimean War with Jean-Charles Langlois. In 1859, he drew a portrait of Napoleon III. He compiled an archaeological...
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    Lamplough (British, 1877–1930) Charles Landelle (French, 1821–1908) Georges Landelle (French, 1860–1898) Jean-Charles Langlois (French, 1789–1870) Joseph...
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    Langlois, p. 79 Gauthier Langlois, p. 79 Jean-Charles, p. 257 Gauthier Langlois, p. 80-81 Jean-Charles, p. 257 Elie Griffe, p. 225 Gauthier Langlois,...
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  • Lanctôt Christian Langlois Michel Langlois Stéphane Lapointe Jean-Claude Lauzon Simon Lavoie Caroline Leaf Francis Leclerc Jacques Leduc Jean Pierre Lefebvre...
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    du Calvados (2000). Jean-Charles Langlois, photographe normand et le panorama de la bataille de Solférino [Jean-Charles Langlois, Photographs of Normandy...
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    this column. MacDonald's XI Corps counted three divisions led by Joseph Jean Baptiste Albert, François Pierre Joseph Amey and Michel Sylvestre Brayer...
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    was studying with Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville, a pupil of Baron Gros, in Cherbourg. A stipend provided by Langlois and others enabled Millet to...
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    Madame Langlois. (By tradition she was a widowed cousin to Bienville and his brothers, but there is no confirmation of this.) Madame Langlois had learned...
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