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    Le Grau-du-Roi (French pronunciation: [lə ɡʁo dy ʁwa]; Occitan: Lo Grau dau Rei) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is the only...
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    Roberts. Pinon appeared in The Bridge of San Luis Rey (in French, Le Pont du roi Saint-Louis). Adapted from a short work by Thornton Wilder by the Irish director...
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    The Pont Saint-Bénézet (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ sɛ̃ benezɛ]; Provençal: Pònt de Sant Beneset), also known as the Pont d'Avignon (IPA: [pɔ̃ daviɲɔ̃])...
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    "gendarme de la garde du roi" by king Louis XVI. Having received music and musical composition lessons, he joined the orchestra Le Concert des Amateurs;...
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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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    (Winter 2020–2021), ""Dansé par le Roi" : Le ballet burlesque au Louvre sous Louis XIII", Grande Galerie – le Journal du Louvre, 53: 26 Léon de Lanzac de...
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    architecture and garden guide André le Nôtre, French biography, pictures and video André Le Notre, le jardinier du roi, notice for a 2014 French television...
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    preserved. Situated on the junction of the Canal du Rhône à Sète and the Chenal Maritime to Le Grau-du-Roi, the town is a transit center for canal craft...
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    INSEE "Le Puy", Marist Places "Comité de jumelage" (in French). Le Puy-en-Velay. Retrieved 15 November 2023. "Fêtes Renaissance du Roi de l'Oiseau". Le Puy-en-Velay:...
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    name La Branche-du-Pont-de-Saint-Maur (literally "The Branch of Saint-Maur's Bridge") by detaching its territory from the commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés...
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    The Marais (redirect from Le Marais (Paris))
    This hôtel remained until 1868, and the rue du Roi-de-Sicile is named after it. JARRASSE Dominique, Guide du patrimoine juif parisien, éditions Parigramme...
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    Under Louis XIV (University of Pennsylvania) 2008. Hazlehurst 1980, pp. 62–64. Comme le soleil est le devise du Roi, et que les poëtes confondent le soleil...
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    Bureau du Roi Fresh pavilion List of Baroque residences List of tourist attractions in Paris Louis XIV style Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Potager du roi, Versailles...
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    northern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Saint-Germain-Village was merged into Pont-Audemer. The commune is situated on the river Risle, 13 km...
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    Louvre (redirect from Musee du Louvre)
    leu leu, Saint Leu, etc.); du lat. lupus; loup est refait sur le fém. louve, où le *v* a empêché le passage du *ou* à *eu* (cf. Louvre, du lat. pop....
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    inherited the library at Blois, incorporated the latter into the Bibliothèque du Roi and further enriched it with the Gruthuyse collection and with plunder from...
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    Champ-de-Mars park. The square, then still called "Place du Roi de Rome", was linked to the Pont d'Iéna by a granite staircase. As early as 1876, there...
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    bridge, the Pont Royal, finished by Louis XIV. Near the end of new bridge on the Left Bank, a new fashionable neighborhood, the Faubourg Saint-Germain, soon...
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    residence, the chambre de Roi. Finally, he built a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas. Further additions were made by Louis VI, with the help of his friend...
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    knowledge, 1891, p. 764; Jean-Claude Fauveau, Le Prince Louis Cardinal de Rohan-Guéméné ou les diamants du roi, L'Harmattan, 2007; Charles Floquet Au coeur...
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    Loire: Pont de l'Europe, Pont du Maréchal Joffre (also called Pont Neuf), Pont George-V (also called Pont Royal, carrying the commune tramway), Pont René-Thinat...
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    Maison du Temps Jadis (Medieval House) Corner of Rue du Pont and Rue Carnot Museum Place Barette Town hall Tomb of Saint-Mauxe War memorial Pont Clemenceau...
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    l'Ardèche (from Pont d'Arc to Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche). The Château or Hôtel de ville (a castle constructed in 1630-1639 under Louis XIII) houses seven...
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    commission du 27 April 1777, M. Guillaumot, architecte du Roi, fut nommé au poste de contrôleur et inspecteur général en chef des Carrières. Signe du destin...
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    known as the Comédiens du Roi is given permission to perform plays at the hôtel de Bourgogne. Construction of the pont Saint-Landry between the Île-de-la-Cité...
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    Place des Vosges (category Le Marais)
    Palace, the Pont Neuf, and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares. Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected...
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    littéraire sur le Collège royal de France, seconde partie (in French). A.-M. Lottin. pp. 138–142. Griselle, Eugène (1912). État de la maison du roi Louis XIII (in...
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    (2013). "Géoarchéologie du Rhône dans le secteur du pont Saint-Bénézet (Avignon, Provence, France) au cours de la seconde moitié du deuxième millénaire apr...
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    Charenton-le-Pont. The area is an alluvial plain eroded by the action of the Marne and the Seine. Bordering communes include Maisons-Alfort, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés...
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    works on Louis XVI, including: Louis XVI, Roi Martyr (1982) Tequi Louis XVI, un Visage retrouvé (1990) O.E.I.L. Media related to Execution of Louis XVI at...
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