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    The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes) was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known...
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  • Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The film is...
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    inheritance on 25 January 1434, before the ducal court in Nantes. From then on, René was known as René de La Suze, thus raising the name borne by the youngest...
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    The Battle of Nantes took place between Royalist and Republican French forces at Nantes on 29 June 1793 during the War in the Vendée. It consisted of...
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  • The Sociétés populaires de Nantes were bodies established in Nantes during the French Revolution, equivalent to political parties, in support of the revolution...
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    Museum of Nantes is a French natural history museum located in the city of Nantes. The first place dedicated to natural history in Nantes was a private...
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    for a Golden Globe Award. De Funès has two museums dedicated to his life and acting: one in the Château de Clermont, near Nantes, where he resided, as well...
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    attacks, such as the Siege of La Rochelle. After Louis XIV revoked the Edit de Nantes in 1685, Protestants who did not leave the country were generally suppressed...
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    Varda paid homage to her husband in Jacquot de Nantes, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993), and L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995). Demy died on October...
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    cities that wished to remain Catholic to join the Union. 1598 – The Edict of Nantes, issued by the King of France, Henry IV, was the formal religious settlement...
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    Edict of Saint-Germain (category Catherine de' Medici)
    The Edict of Saint-Germain (French: édit de tolérance de Saint-Germain), also known as the Edict of January (Édit de janvier), was a landmark decree of...
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    Jean Alexandre Barré (category Physicians from Nantes)
    Jean Alexandre Barré (25 May 1880, Nantes – 26 April 1967, Strasbourg) was a French neurologist who in 1916 worked on the identification of Guillain-Barré-Strohl...
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    graduated with an engineer's degree from École Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes. In parliament, Bregeon has been serving on the Defence Committee...
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    Saupiquet is a French company founded in Nantes in 1891 which specializes in fish canning, particularly tuna. In the 1870s, Arsène Saupiquet (born 1849)...
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    Struggle for Recognition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980. Édit de Versailles (7 novembre 1787), transcription of the original text, in French...
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  • Bruxelles, De Boeck, 1989, 273 pages (2è édit. 2002, 214 pages) (trad. en portugais). Du "sens commun" à la "société de communication". Etudes de philosophie...
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    cardinal. In 1652, he was arrested and imprisoned, first at Vincennes, then at Nantes; he escaped after two years, and traveled through Europe. He went to Rome...
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    Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French meridian arc, for which...
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    Eduardo Bolsonaro (category Politicians from Rio de Janeiro (city))
    Eduardo Nantes Bolsonaro (born 10 July 1984) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer. He is the third child of Jair Bolsonaro, the...
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    Dagorn, Gary; Durand, Anne-Aël (16 April 2019). "Nantes, Lunéville, Windsor... les derniers grands incendies de bâtiments historiques". Le Monde (in French)...
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  • Planète Sauvage zoo (then known as Safari Africain) in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes, in France. It is considered the last[citation needed] human zoo in France...
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    Besançon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Poitiers, Rennes, Strasbourg and Tours. The RER line B offers a connection...
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  • subatomique et des technologies associées, SUBATECH) at the University of Nantes The National Large Heavy Ion Accelerator (le Grand accélérateur national...
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  • Bretons knew French policy. His actual territory of control was the County of Nantes. Carolingian infighting distracted Guy and prevented him from exhibiting...
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    Les moyens de chasser la gueuserye, contraindre les fainéants, faire et employer les pauvres La Commission, édit et partie des mémoires de l'ordre et...
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    Château de Bois-Briand is a château located in Nantes, France. In 2008, the estate was listed as a "Monument National" by French Minister of Culture....
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  • Benoît Régent (category Male actors from Nantes)
    was born in Nantes. He died at the age of 41 of a ruptured aneurysm in Zürich, Switzerland. Femme intégrale (1980) - Jacques La Peau de chagrin (1980...
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    lifetime was his Eclaircissements historiques sur les causes de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes ... (2 vols., 1788), undertaken in view of the restoration...
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  • L’École de design Nantes Atlantique is a private institution for technical education dedicated to the teaching of design. Founded in 1988, it has been...
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    after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1706, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot married Jean-Baptiste de Gaalon de Villeneuve, a member of a noble family...
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