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    The Place des Vosges (French pronunciation: [plas de voʒ]), originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It is located in...
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    Hôtel de Roquelaure Hôtel Renan-Scheffer Hôtel d'Angoulême Lamoignon Musée Jacquemart André Hôtel Biron Hôtel de Fontpertuis Hôtel de Beauvais Hôtel de Choiseul-Praslin...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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    L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine (1848) Les Paysans (1855) Published pseudonymously As "Lord Rhône", in collaboration L'Héritière de Birague (1822)...
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    group of four men: Henry, duke of Anjou; Chancellor Birague; the duke of Nevers, and the comte de Retz" (Gondi). Apart from Anjou, the others were all...
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    returned Languedoc to Montmorency formally in 1589. The chancellor René de Birague died in November 1583. Both Joyeuse and Épernon were keen to see that...
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    accompanied by the Duc de Montpensier, duc de Nevers, maréchal de Retz, chancelier de Birague, governor of Poitou the seigneur de Malicorne, and the royal...
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    1712, Jean Bullet, architect. Fontaine de Birague, Fontaine des Jesuites or Fontaine Sainte-Catherine. Rue de Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis. About 1579. Reconstructed...
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    in attendance were Catherine, Charles, Retz, Tavannes, Nevers and René de Birague who had recently replaced Morvillier as Chancellor. The notion that Téligny's...
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    Beauvais (1569–1575) and peer of France. Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, archbishop of Reims. René de Birague, Chancellor of France (1573), cardinal (1578)...
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