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    was the brainchild of the then French consul general in New York, Comte Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle. He enlisted the help of Forsythe Wicks, a lawyer...
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    Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers...
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    New York Governor George Clinton for the vice presidency, but Adams won nonetheless. With Jefferson out of office after 1793, Madison became the de facto...
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    Gerald Max (1932). The Vitalism of Count de Gobineau, New York, [s.n.]. Valette, Rebecca M. (1969). Arthur de Gobineau and the Short Story, University...
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    d'Auguste Comte. De la science à la religion par la philosophie, 2016, Vrin, Paris Gertrud Lenzer, Auguste Comte: Essential Writings (1975), New York Harper...
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    Grant was born in New York City, the son of Gabriel Grant, a physician and American Civil War surgeon, and Caroline Manice. Madison Grant's mother was...
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    Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...
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    Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), was...
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    sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de Saint-André of the Comte de Provence's Carbine Regiment on 14 January 1757, and again promoted...
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    elected Governor of New York, as well as the fourth Vice President of the United States (under both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison); and Alexander Hamilton...
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    whence they were introduced into France. An essay by the Comte de Mellet included in Court de Gebelin's Monde primitif is responsible for the mystical...
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    de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de...
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    City, New York: Doubleday & Company. ISBN 0-385-18402-6. Castelot, André. (1989). Madame du Barry. Paris: Perrin. ISBN 9782262006914. Fleury, comte Maurice...
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    Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March 1750 – 14 July 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda (Latin American Spanish: [fɾanˈsisko ðe miˈɾanda])...
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  • Machiavelli (as evident in his Discourses on Livy), John Adams, and James Madison. The word "republic" derives from the Latin noun-phrase res publica (public...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    municipalities 89 regional county municipalities or RCMs (municipalités régionales de comté, MRC) 2 metropolitan communities (communautés métropolitaines) the regional...
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    Plessis (1961). Political testament. Internet Archive. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. de, Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis duc (1635). The principall...
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    a French fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Comte Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing attempted landings in New York and Newport, but due to a combination of...
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    (1970–1980). "Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer (or Bovier) De". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 5. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 57–63. ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9...
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    no man need be afraid of another" reminded Madison and others that a free and stable foundation for their new national government required a clearly defined...
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    Service At Notre Dame – The New York Times". The New York Times. 11 November 1970. Retrieved 2 May 2022. "1970 – Year in Review. De Gaulle and Nasser die"...
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    the Comte de Buffon, Jean-François Marmontel, Melchior Grimm, Edward Gibbon, the Abbé Raynal, Jean-François de la Harpe, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre...
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    conventions and formal party platforms. The Tammany Society in New York City highly favored Madison and the Federalists finally adopted the club idea in 1808...
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    philosopher Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, General Victor Collot, scholar Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, diplomat Victor Marie...
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    Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. (category Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east and Pennsylvania Avenue on the south. It is named for the general, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat...
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    monarchy; the comte de Provence (brother of the executed Louis XVI) took the throne as Louis XVIII. Lafayette was received by the new king, but the staunch...
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    During this time, in the early 1790s, Jefferson and political ally James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party...
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  • government, consisting of three branches". Constitutional author James Madison presented a similar idea in Federalist 10, citing the destabilizing effect...
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    Beretta. Munich: Deutsches Museum. 2005. Bell, Madison Smart (2005). Lavoisier in the year one. New York: W.W. Norton. McKie, Douglas (1952). Antoine Lavoisier:...
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    Fascism, 1914–1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299148744. Paxton, Robert O. (2004). The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
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