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    operation today as part of the Inland Revenue Department. The Brussels Mont de Piété, first founded in 1618, is still an active institution. The founder...
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    metres Floodmap with Sea level rises of 5 metres around Bergues Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bergues, EHESS (in...
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    his Défense des monts de piété in favor of pawnbroking. Marseilles obtained one in 1695, but it was not until 1777 that the first mont de pit was founded...
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    English and published in London in 1664 and 1665. Renaudot opened the mont-de-piété, the first pawnshop in Paris, in 1637. Appointed "General Overseer of...
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  • Barnabas of Terni (died 1474 or 1477) was an Italian Friar Minor and missionary, who established the first monte di pietà. He belonged to the noble family...
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  • mêlés de couplets". This play was performed in Mons in 1831. He then participated in the government, and he was also director of the Mont-de-piété of Mons...
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    Comédie des Champs-Élysées 1956 : Loup de Tsu Ku Mi – Mont de Piété – 14 Juillet de Marcel Marceau, Théâtre de l'Ambigu 1958 : Le Petit Cirque and Les...
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    The Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Dog (category Paintings by Georges de La Tour)
    painting executed c. 1622 by the French artist Georges de La Tour, now in the Musée du Mont-de-Piété de Bergues. It belongs to his early period and forms part...
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    Speyetower and the Ingelburgtower) Artillerytower (Artillerietoren) Mont de Piété (Berg van Barmhartigheid or house of Mercy) Weigh house (Stadswaag)...
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    outbuildings of the Mont-de-piété at 24 and 25 Rue Vivienne in Paris. Paillet also served as garde-magasin (storekeeper) of the Mont-de-piété until his death...
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    André Breton (category Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes)
    Breton [fr]; from 1945 to 1966 (his death), to Elisa Bindhoff Enet. 1919: Mont de piété ["Mount of piety"] 1920: S'il vous plaît – Published in English as:...
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    critiques sur les monts-de-piété en Belgique (Brussels, 1844) De l'influence du libre arbitre de l'homme sur les fails sociaux (1848) L'esprit de parti et l'esprit...
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    Épinay-sur-Seine, then at Javel. 1777 Mont de Piété established. Journal de Paris newspaper begins publication. The Courrier de la Mode ou Journal du Goût, the...
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    in 1624 and the Bonne et Forte Maison des Pauvres in 1661, and of a Mont-de-piété in 1626. Unsuccessful French attacks on the city were launched in 1641...
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    Voltaire, Le Retour de l'exilé, Le Duc d'Angoulême visitant le Mont-de-Piété, La Reddition de Huningue, Les Missionnaires au mont Valérien. Marlet also...
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    were temporarily in need of money, a special institution existed: the Mont-de-Piété. Founded in 1777, it was a sort of pawn shop or bank for the poor, with...
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    Fractional-reserve banking UIF Corporation History of banking Micro venture capital Mont de Piété Profit and loss sharing Credit union "... Modern Islamic banking/finance...
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    Lady and Her Cook (category Paintings by Pieter de Hooch)
    Canvas, 21 inches by 16 1/2 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, p. 190. Sale. Mont de Piété, at Paris, 1808 (about 1100 francs, La Fontaine). Sold soon after to...
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    Lariboisière Hospital (in the 10th arrondissement), and he reorganized the Mont-de-Piété, a charitable organization which gave low-cost loans to the poor. In...
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    the rank of sergeant and entered as an employee in a branch of the Mont-de-piété, precisely in the house where he was born, rue Saint-Séverin. He was...
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    organization was modeled on European financial institutions known as mont de piété (mount of piety). The contributors included Solomon Loeb, Alfred B....
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    1916 he provided a set of illustrations for André Breton's first book, Mont de Piete. After the war, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism...
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    helpers. It was at the Oratorio that he succeeded in establishing a mont de piété; the capital was increased with the gifts of the associates. He was...
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  • Société de production littéraire 1993: Histoire du Mont-de-Piété, Paris, Le Cherche-Midi 1996: L'ABCdaire du cigare, Paris, Flammarion, "Art de vivre"...
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    lighting, fire control and public assistance in the city He founded the Mont-de-Piété pawnbroking institution and took measures against begging, gambling...
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    copper depicting the Twelve Apostles, in the collection of the Musée du Mont-de-Piété in Bergues, which is attributed to Robert van den Hoecke. These works...
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    Timeline of Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Javel. 1777 Mont de Piété and Marché d'Aligre [fr] (market) established. Journal de Paris newspaper begins publication. The Courrier de la Mode ou Journal...
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    Carmine in the same city. With the practical notion of establishing monts-de-piété, he called for the expulsion of Jews all over Italy and Tyrol. However...
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    to have designed eight tapestries on the myths of Apollo. The Musée Mont-de-Piété in Bergues preserves 8 preliminary drawings for this Apollo series of...
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  • 1676; proposed was establishment of a combined bank and Lombard or mont de piété for the issue of credit against "dead stock" deposited at 6 per cent...
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