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    The Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles (French: Cimetière Saint-Louis de Versailles) is one of several cemeteries in Versailles, Yvelines. It is among...
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    infancy: Louis Marie de Bourbon, duc de Rambouillet (Palace of Versailles, 2 January 1746 – Palace of Versailles, 13 November 1749). Louis Alexandre...
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    proclaimed Louis XVIII. Louis-Charles de France was born at the Palace of Versailles, the second son and third child of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie...
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    bodyguard) in Versailles and a chevalier. He then adopted the suffix of his father's plantation and was known as the "Chevalier de Saint-Georges". In 1764...
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  • The Cemetery of Montmartre (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century...
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    referred to as the small cemetery (petit cimetière) and the large section as the large cemetery (grand cimetière). The west of Émile-Richard Street is divided...
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    Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz]; formerly cimetière de l'Est, lit. 'East Cemetery') is the largest...
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    Notre-Dame, Versailles (French: Église Notre-Dame de Versailles), is a Roman Catholic parish church in Versailles, Yvelines, France, in the Rue de la Paroisse...
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    Picpus Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Picpus, [pik.pys]) is the largest private cemetery in Paris, France, and is located in the 12th arrondissement. It...
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    reign of the First French Empire. The heart of Louis Antoine De Bougainville is buried at the Cimetière du Calvaire in Paris, the rest of his body is buried...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    are the Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen, the Cimetière parisien de Pantin, also known as Cimetière parisien de Pantin-Bobigny, the Cimetière parisien...
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    Passy Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The current cemetery replaced the...
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    department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    Félix Danjou (1840–1847) Eugène Sergent [fr] (1847–1900) Louis Vierne (1900–1937) Léonce de Saint-Martin (1937–1954) Pierre Cochereau (1955–1984) Yves Devernay...
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  • of Notre-Dame, Versailles (French: Cimetière Notre-Dame), is a cemetery in Versailles, Yvelines, France, near the Palace of Versailles. It was established...
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    Marshal Bosquet Troyes, musée Saint-Loup : Napoléon on the Bridge at Arcis-sur-Aube, oil on canvas Versailles, château de Versailles Les Trois mousquetaires...
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    Palace of Versailles. She was the youngest child of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. Her paternal grandparents were King Louis XV and...
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    (Mme Laurent Lecoulteux), including the exquisite Ode à Versailles. His solitary life at Versailles lasted nearly a year. On 7 March 1794 he was arrested...
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    of the Palace of Versailles. To design it, he brought together a team that the king later used for Versailles: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter...
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    collaboration L'Héritière de Birague (1822) Jean-Louis (1822) As "Horace de Saint-Aubin" Clotilde de Lusignan (1822) Le Centenaire (1822) Le Vicaire des...
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    was born November 19, 1805, in Versailles. He had a sister, Adélaïde de Lesseps (1803–1879), married to Jules Tallien de Cabarrus (19 April 1801 – 1870);...
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    Meudon. Louis-Ferdinand Céline lived here until his death, and is buried in Cimetière Longs Réages, Bas Meudon. Gregoire Defrel, footballer Madame de Pompadour...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Panthéon de Paris)
    at the behest of King Louis XV of France; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris's patron saint, whose relics were to be...
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    plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon Saint Louis, standing statue, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon Gaston de Foix,...
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    Auguste Péquégnot (category Artists from Versailles)
    of Paris. He was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre. Vieilles Décorations depuis l'époque de la Renaissance jusqu'à Louis XVI Ornements, Vases et Décorations...
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    Henri Désiré Landru (category Burials at the Cimetière des Gonards)
    before dawn on February 25, 1922, outside the gates of the Prison Saint-Pierre in Versailles. The whole procedure—from Landru walking out of prison to his...
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    1831 (Louvre) Portrait of Arthur Dillon, 1834 (museum of Versailles), right Death of Saint Louis, 1838 Portrait of a lady in a chapeau-cloche, (Musée Magnin...
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    Marie-Félix Blanc (category Burials at the Cimetière des Gonards)
    6th Prince of Canino and Musignano. She was buried in the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, Yvelines. Storr, Anthony (6 February 1983). "An Unlikely...
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    extensively as a royal residence was Louis XIV, who later abandoned it in favour of the Chateau de Versailles. In 1198, Foulques de Neuilly, preacher of the 4th...
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    Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles). Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI, 1782, Musée de l'Histoire de France Madame du Barry, 1782. The...
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