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    Joseph Foullon de Doué, took over the posts of Puységur, Armand Marc, comte de Montmorin, La Luzerne, Saint-Priest, and Necker. News of Necker's dismissal...
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    Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (1815–1875), comte de Jarnac, was a French diplomat of aristocratic descent.[citation needed] Descended from...
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    Rosa 'Comtes de Champagne' (aka AUSufo) is an apricot shrub rose cultivar, developed by British rose breeder David C. H. Austin in 1992 and introduced...
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    Victor, Baron de Besenval de Brunstatt, Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil and Jean-Balthazar d'Adhémar, Comte d'Adhémar. After...
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    The Internationaux du Doubs – Open de Franche-Comté was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was part of the ATP Challenger...
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    early 19th century for his ingestion skills. First hired by conjurer Louis Comte at his Paris theater in 1816, he became famous for a few years for his "polyphagic...
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    Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta (French pronunciation: [patʁis də makma.ɔ̃]; 13 June 1808 – 17 October 1893)...
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    Continuation to the Comte de Gabalis. La Haye, M.DCC.XVIII. Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1897. L. A. Cahagnet and John Yarker, Magnetic Magic. [Bath]: [Robert H. Fryar]...
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    Constantinople, where he reported the find to the Comte de Marcellus, assistant to Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière, the French ambassador. Rivière...
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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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    political links with France.[citation needed] At birth, he bore the title of comte de Stainville. In 1737, Francis Stephen of Lorraine (the future Holy Roman...
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    Order of chivalry (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    chevaliers de Saint-Georges au Comté de Bourgogne sous l'Ancien régime & la révolution. Mémoire et documents. Bossuat, A. (1944). Un ordre de chevalerie...
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    Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre, 1809, also Comte d'Hunebourg Géraud Duroc, Duc de Frioul, 1808 (extinct in 1829) Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante...
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    Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Jun 27, 1912 "Bath, Wednesday Feb. 11". The Bath Chronicle. Bath, Somerset, England. February 12, 1795. p. 3 – via...
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    was given the name 'de Villemain' and land near Brie-Comte-Robert. There, he compiled one of the first French dictionaries, Thresor de la langue françoyse...
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    Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də ʁiɲi]; 2 February 1782 – 6 November 1835) was the commander of the French squadron...
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    Musée Magnin (category Museums in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
    1650-1660 Laurent de La Hyre, Musician Putto, around 1649 Laurent de La Hyre, Singing Putto, around 1649 Eustache Le Sueur, Poliphile in bath with the nymphs...
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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl/ TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French...
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    Jacqueline (1986). La cour de Henri III (in French). Rennes: Ouest-France. ISBN 2-7373-0019-3. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1783). Erotika...
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    Jewish Encyclopedia). A kabalistic work that appeared in 1670, known as Comte de Gabalis, maintains that the name of Noah's wife was Vesta.[citation needed]...
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    the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his assassination by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. In 2001, art...
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    Henry V awarded six captured French comtés to certain of his more significant English supporters, and the Comté of Eu was granted to William Bourchier...
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    Richard Guyon (category People from Bath and North East Somerset)
    Richard de Beaufré comte de Guyon (1813 – 12 October 1856) was a British-born Hungarian soldier, general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and Ottoman...
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    a nude of her sitting modestly at the end of her bath that was intended for the bathroom of the Comte d'Artois at Bagatelle. Another shows her lying naked...
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    Château d'Anet (category Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire)
    the prince des Dombes and comte d'Eu lived here when away from Versailles. It was later owned by the fabulously wealthy duc de Penthièvre, first cousin...
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    'Getrude Jekyll' using the shrub rose, 'Wife of Bath' and the Portland rose, 'Comte de Chambord'. The rose was named in honour of the famous British writer and...
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    not permit him to gain political power. In 1641, he participated in the comte de Soissons's failed conspiracy against Richelieu, but was not discovered...
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    USS Winston S. Churchill (category Ships built in Bath, Maine)
    and the first since 1976 named after a non-U.S. citizen (that being USS Comte de Grasse), though Churchill was an honorary U.S. citizen and his mother was...
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    streets that bear his name Statue de Jean De Lattre, parc de la Mairie Château Montelambert – Maîche – Franche Comté – France Memorial plaque at...
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    release the inconvenient duke of Anjou.[citation needed] On the pretext of a bath in Spa thermal waters, Margaret left Paris with her court. She devoted two...
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