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    Marie de Médicis escaped from her confinement in the Château de Blois, becoming the titular leader of an aristocratic rebellion. The king and the duc de Luynes...
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    Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 6th Earl of Stafford, 7th Baron Stafford, KG (15 August 1402 – 10 July 1460) of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire...
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  • Robert de La Marck (1575-1652), duc de Bouillon. In 1625, she was one of the witnesses interrogated during the Buckingham Affair, when queen Anne and George...
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    sunlights d'Hollywood". Val d'Oise terre de cinéma. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Steve Barclay at IMDb...
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    Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham with a fleet of 80 ships. In June 1627 Buckingham organised a landing on the nearby island of Île de Ré with 6,000 men in...
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    boisterous games in the corridors of the Louvre, resulting in a miscarriage. The duc de Chevreuse used all his influence to have her restored to court. In her attempts...
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    of Buckingham, to be met by an embassy consisting of Raoul de Bragelonne, the illegitimate son of Athos; his close friend Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche;...
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    Joinville is twinned with: Buckingham, United Kingdom Jean de Joinville Claude de Lorraine Louis de Guise, cardinal évêque de Metz François Lespingola Louis...
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    XIV, became minister of state in 1652, and in November 1665 was created duc de Choiseul. He was concerned in some of the negotiations between Louis and...
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    Duke of Buckingham, to encourage a major rebellion in La Rochelle. In June 1627, Buckingham organised a landing on the nearby island of Île de Ré with...
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  • The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (category Cultural depictions of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham)
    Austria Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Duke of Buckingham Éric Ruf as Cardinal Richelieu Dominique Valadié as Marie de Médicis Julien Frison as Gaston, Duke of...
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  • The Three Musketeers: Milady (category Cultural depictions of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham)
    Austria Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Duke of Buckingham Alexis Michalik as Villeneuve de Radis Patrick Mille as Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord Ivan Franek as Ardanza...
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    Twenty Years After (category Cultural depictions of Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan)
    services to Mazarin, he immediately refuses to watch over the imprisoned Duc de Beaufort, his personal friend. Mazarin orders the return of the prisoner...
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    on 1 May 1625.' He hosted the Duke of Buckingham, who came to escort Henrietta Maria to England, at the Hôtel de Chevreuse. The Duke and Duchess of Chevreuse...
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    highest ranking nobility. Families like those of the Duc d’Estrées, the Duc du Châtelet or the Duc de Noirmoutier moved there. Their former residences still...
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  • d'Eckmühl Marshal Augereau, duc de Castiglione – 1808 (extinct 1915) Marshal Lannes, duc de Montebello – 1808 Marshal Marmont, duc de Raguse – 1808 (extinct...
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    remained on both sides. In February 1625, the Protestant Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, led a Huguenot revolt against the French king Louis XIII,...
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    30 April 2019. "Ouverture officielle Banque Havilland en présence de S. A. R le Duc d'York K. G." [Official Opening of Banque Havilland in the presence...
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    they are ranked below princes and grand dukes. The title comes from French duc, itself from the Latin dux, 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer...
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  • Dauger de Cavoye but, in 1665, near the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he allegedly killed a young page boy in a drunken brawl involving the Duc de Foix...
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    Rouai, Nouot' Duc" (PDF). Jersey and Guernsey Law Review. 1999 (2). Base Mérimée: Statue de Guillaume le Conquérant, Ministère français de la Culture. (in...
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  • Patent Office Building, Washington, D.C., United States. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is commissioned by Prosper Mérimée to restore Vézelay Abbey, the first of...
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    Monsieur de Tréville in The Three Musketeers) Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (later American Revolutionary War general) Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon...
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  • Otway 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1667 – Jonathan Swift 1668 – Alain-René Lesage 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1681 – Robert Keith...
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    being replaced by Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares who ran Spain for a further 20 years Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes in France, the...
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    Bernard de Nogaret, Duc d'Épernon. The Duke of Épernon died on 25 July 1661, and on 30 July 1662, Marie-Claire de Bauffrement, widow of Gaston de Foix,...
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    Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    June 2024. Text in French of the 1991 amendment: « Le titre de Duc de Brabant ou de Duchesse de Brabant sera toujours porté, à l'avenir, par le Prince ou...
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    289-291, letter of 13 July 1716 Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de (1888). The Memoirs of the Duke de Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency...
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  • Wild Fowlers. Membership included such people as Arthur Bartley and Nash Buckingham, who would later be involved in the conservation movement. In 1930, Joseph...
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    mediation of Charles' sister Henrietta Anne Stuart, wife of Louis's brother the Duc d'Orléans, France and England signed the secret Treaty of Dover. The Dutch...
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