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    Lorraine is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval...
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    Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory...
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    Louis de Lorraine, cardinal de Guise et prince-évêque de Metz (21 October 1527, in Joinville, Champagne – 29 March 1578, in Paris) was a French Roman Catholic...
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    Présidence de la Lorraine, at the time translated into French: Département de la Lorraine i.e. Department of Lorraine), also called German Lorraine (Deutsch Lothringen)...
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    of the ducal House of Lorraine. Among the extensive privileges enjoyed by them was the coining of money; the Duchy of Lorraine was the last to hold this...
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    (1973). Madame du Barry. pp. 75–85. Lever 1991, p. 124 Goncourt, Edmond de (1880). La Du Barry. Paris, France: G. Charpentier. pp. 195–96. Lever, Evelyne...
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    II was crowned king in Reims by his wife's uncle Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. The crown was so heavy that nobles had to hold it in place for him. The...
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    Moselle (French pronunciation: [mɔzɛl] ) is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary...
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    ruptures en contraintes (realisation Ginette Pellerin) Snyder, Lorraine. "Herménégilde Chiasson". Retrieved 5 January 2018. "Members since 1880". Royal...
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    Park". Retrieved 29 June 2012. Beck J.S. (2011) 2000 ans de climat en Alsace et en Lorraine. Eds. Coprur. ISBN 978-2-84208-209-3 (in French) "Weatherspark...
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    merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin...
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    agglomeration had a population of 23,824. In 1572 Cardinal Charles of Lorraine established a Jesuit university at Pont-à-Mousson. With the Protestant...
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    BP), pp 57, 198 & 490, Maison de l'Orient Mediterraneen, 1994. Copeland, Lorraine & Wescombe, P. J., Inventory of Stone Age Sites in Lebanon (1966) Part...
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    were most opposed to the Huguenots, specifically Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. While the conspiracy was more successfully hidden by its members than...
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    death of her first husband, Pepin had her marry Count Witger, Duke of Lorraine. In her biography she is presented as the mother of five saints: Pharaildis...
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    Chatrian were born in the département of Meurthe (now Moselle), in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of France. They specialised in military...
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    Franco-Prussian War, the city, as part of the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine, became German again, until 1918 (end of World War I), when it reverted...
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  • "Getting rid of dirt – and murder victims". BBC News. Lardner, George; Adams, Lorraine (April 14, 1996). "To Unabomb Victims, a Deeper Mystery". The Washington...
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    French Forces used a tricolore with, in the white stripe, a red Cross of Lorraine. The constitutions of 1946 and 1958 instituted the "blue, white, and red"...
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    Claude, Duke of Aumale (category House of Lorraine)
    Claude II de Lorraine, duc d'Aumale (18 August 1526, Joinville – 3 March 1573, La Rochelle) was a Prince étranger, military commander and French governor...
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    (Société Lorraine de Laminage Continu) was a French steel company formed in December 1948 as a cooperative to produce steel rolls in Lorraine from steel...
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    ministers' conference (1867) Habsburg monarchy (complete list) – Habsburg-Lorraine ruled under numerous simultaneous titles Francis Joseph I, (1848–1916)...
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    Black Sea. France, after the Franco-Prussian War and the loss of Alsace–Lorraine, was fervently hostile to Germany and maintained friendly relations with...
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  • June 1905. Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD in Occupied Lorraine (Metz); also a Generalmajor der Polizei. From 31 May to 1 July 1953, Dunckern...
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  • sur Nicolas Durival, Mémoires de la Société d’Archéologie lorraine, 1880, p. 5–36. la Lorraine au xviiie siècle. Nicolas Luton Durival on data.bnf.fr Nicolas-Luton...
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    much of the province of Lorraine, including Meisenthal where he had done his apprenticeship. Thereafter the Cross of Lorraine, the patriotic symbol of...
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    church matters to more learned men, Lorraine retorted he could find one million signatures for a counter-petition. Lorraine however went on to strike a softer...
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    Dawn (1877) Last Sleep of the Brave, (1879) The Spy, (1880) The Cemetery of Saint-Privat (1881) En avant ! ou Le combat de Chenebier (1884) A Cavalryman...
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    consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and...
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    and Lorraine sparred over the matter, Lorraine angrily denouncing Hôpital as a Protestant. Montmorency had to intervene between the two as Lorraine grabbed...
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