Charles Michel, Marquis de Villette (4 December 1736 – 7 July 1793) was a French writer and politician. Charles was born in Paris as the heir of a financier...
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The Bassin de la Villette (French pronunciation: [basɛ̃ də la vilɛt], La Villette Basin) is the largest artificial lake in Paris. It was filled with water...
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daughter of vice-admiral Philippe, Marquis de Villette-Mursay. His younger brother was Charles de Tubières de Caylus, who became a naval officer and governor...
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lover, Rétaux de Villette, a common gigolo and Nicolas's fellow officer in the gendarmerie. Around 1783, she met Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan. Jeanne...
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Charles Marc S. De Ketelaere (born 10 March 2001) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Serie A club...
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Rita Strohl (born Aimée Marie Marguerite Mercédès Larousse La Villette) (8 July 1865 – 27 March 1941) was a French composer and pianist. Born in Lorient...
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adopted his protégée Reine Philiberte de Varicourt when the latter's marriage to the Charles, marquis de Villette foundered on his homosexuality. She did...
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Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette (24 February 1804 – 6 March 1850), better known simply as Charles de Bernard, was a French writer...
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Charlotte Brontë (section Villette)
Brussels as the inspiration for some of the events in The Professor and Villette. After returning to Haworth, Charlotte and her sisters made headway with...
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the children went to the care of their paternal aunt, Madame de Villette. The Villettes' home, Mursay, became a happy memory for Françoise, who had been...
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Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro (redirect from Prince Charles, Duke of Calabria)
as the only son of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro and Chantal de Chevron-Villette. He was educated at the Collège Stanislas and later studied at the...
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headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and his wife, Chantal de Chevron-Villette.[citation needed] Her younger brother, Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro...
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont (section Temple de la Sibylle)
the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden. Opened in 1867, late in the...
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days, before entering Paris on 6 June. He arrived in the city through the Villette Gate. The scene was depicted in a painting by Louis-François Lejeune. At...
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Affair of the Diamond Necklace (redirect from Charles Auguste Boehmer)
one of the King's ministers. Jeanne de la Motte, having entered court utilizing a lover named Rétaux de Villette, persuaded Rohan that she had been received...
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in 1986. Plans to move CNSMDP to more modern facilities in the Parc de la Villette were initiated under Bleuse and completed under Louvier. The tradition...
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The Affair of the Necklace (category Films directed by Charles Shyer)
channels, she joins forces with the arrogant, well-connected gigolo Rétaux de Villette and her own wayward, womanizing husband Nicholas. They concoct a plan...
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Alma Keller Roger Dann as Pierre Grandfort Charles Andre as Father Millars Ovila Legare as Monsieur Villette I Confess had one of the longest pre-productions...
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flowed from the basin at La Villette, where the water of the canal arrived in Paris, at a higher elevation than the Place de la Concorde. The overflow water...
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were destroyed. Marie-Madeleine Martinie, Deux sœurs peintres : Élodie La Villette, Caroline Espinet, Hengoun Éditions, 2008. ISBN 978-2-916976-02-0 Marie-Paule...
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Kevin De Bruyne (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkɛvɪn də ˈbrœynə]; born 28 June 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier...
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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine)
Antoinette; Rétaux de Villette, a forger; Alessandro Cagliostro, an Italian adventurer; and the Count de La Motte, Jeanne de Valois' husband. Madame de La Motte...
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Ménilmontant Pont de Flandres Belleville-Villette, also freight station Charonne, also freight station Rue d'Avron Avenue de Vincennes Bel-Air Ceinture Rue Claude...
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Jean-Christophe was born in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. He is the son of Prince Charles Napoléon and his first wife Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies,...
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Girard and built on the site in 1811. Émile de La Bédollière wrote that the water came from la Villette and that the fountain was "superb" in character...
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He was friends with Théophile Gautier and Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette, and he was acquainted with Victor Hugo. Nevertheless...
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Porte de la Chapelle : route nationale 1, autoroute A1 Porte d'Aubervilliers : route nationale 301 Porte de la Villette : route nationale 2 Porte de Pantin :...
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Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos, also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705), was a French author, courtesan and...
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Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (born Anne-Josèphe Terwagne; 13 August 1762 – 8 June 1817) was a Belgian singer, orator and organizer in the French...
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Ackbaraly (member of the Charles Cros Academy, musical programmer of the Jazz à Vienne festival in France, La Petite Halle de la Villette concert hall in Paris...
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