• Adolphe Benoît Blaise was an 18th-century French bassoonist and composer, died in 1772. He joined the orchestra of the Comédie-Italienne in 1737 and composed...
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    Faso : Luc Adolphe Tiao, le joker de Blaise Compaoré", Jeune Afrique, 10 May 2011 (in French). "Son Excellence Monsieur Beyon Luc Adolphe Tiao, nommé...
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    Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé-Ivorian former politician who served as the second president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He...
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    grandson was born in Paris in 1954 to his son Adolphe (1907–1985, a French medical officer). The younger Blaise became mayor of the French village of Lourmarin...
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  • Blaise Adolphe Antoine Marie Senghor (also Blaise Wali Antoine Marie Senghor, Joal, now Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal, 30 May 1932 – Paris, France, 6 October...
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  • Asger Svendsen Martin Kuuskmann (born 1971) Maurice Allard (1922–1988) Adolphe Blaise (1737–1772) François Devienne (1759–1803) Désiré Dihau (1833–1909) François-René...
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  • Comédie-Italienne, Bourgogne La Rosière de Salency, together with Adolphe Blaise, Egidio Duni, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Gottfried van Swieten opéra...
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    JB Mpiana, Werrason, Blaise Bula, Adolphe Dominguez, Ricoco Bulambemba and Alain Mpela on vocals, Alain Makaba, Djolina, Blaise Kombo and Didier Masela...
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    in response to attempts at changing the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaoré to run again and extend his 27 years in office. Pressure for political...
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  • Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmond Adolphe (1926–1997) and Nadine (born 1932) de Rothschild. He was married to Ariane...
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    also received military training from the American army. Under President Blaise Compaoré, he served as deputy commander of the Regiment of Presidential...
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  • Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier 1832 prince de Trévise 1832 - 1835: Nicolas Joseph Maison 1835-1848 Prosper Brugière de Barante 1849-1849 Adolphe Emmanuel...
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    the ariette "Chere Annette reçois l'hommage" in Justine Favart and Adolphe Blaise's 1762 comic operetta Annette et Lubin [fr]. The operetta was brought...
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    higher than the alto saxophone. A sopranino in F was also described in Adolphe Sax's patent, an octave above an F alto (mezzo-soprano), but there are...
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  • following lists events that happened during 2014 in Burkina Faso. President: Blaise Compaoré (until 31 October), Honoré Traoré (from 31 October until 1 November)...
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    baritone saxophone. It was likely the first type of saxophone built by Adolphe Sax, as first observed by Berlioz in 1842. It is a transposing instrument...
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  • euphemism, unknown, YHVH-EHYH-ADNY, or YHVH-YHVH-YHVH. Wilhelm Bacher and Adolphe Franck suggest that the 12-letter name was Chokmah-Tevunah-Da'at, but the...
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    January 1983, but subsequently arrested. Efforts to free him, directed by Capt. Blaise Compaoré, resulted in a military coup d'état on 4 August 1983. The coup...
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    October 1769. The melody is based on an ariette from Justine Favart and Adolphe Blaise's 1763 French comic operetta Annette and Lubin. There are four stanzas...
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    in a shape reminiscent of the sarrusophone, or the saxophone bourdon on Adolphe Sax's original patent drawing. The process from idea to production took...
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    Discours sur les passions de l'amour (category Blaise Pascal)
    reignited the debate all the more because it contained no reference to Blaise Pascal. Ferdinando Neri's 1921 work Un ritratto immaginario di Pascal is...
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    bought by her, of which the most expensive painting was a still-life by Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe that cost 5,000 guilders. Holthuysen died childless in...
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    Pierre Henner ; Louis Rive ; Paul Visconti ; Vincent Muselli ; Jean Royère ; Blaise Cendrars ; Alberto Savinio ; Albert Haas ; Henri Strentz ; Guy-Pierre Fauconnet ;...
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    Beaux-Arts in Paris. Royer became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. He obtained the Prix de Rome in 1882. He became a portraitist...
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    parliamentary election, Zongo was appointed Prime Minister by President Blaise Compaore on 4 June 2007. His government, composed of 34 members, was appointed...
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  • Jérémie (12 June 2021). ""Shadie" de Blaise Bula et Kristy Diamond, une ode à l'amour [VIDÉOCLIP]" ["Shadie" by Blaise Bula and Kristy Diamond, an ode to...
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  • Burkinabé politician. He was Economic Adviser to the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, from 1989 to 2014. He is Compaoré's younger brother. In 1997,...
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  • century François-René de Chateaubriand – Atala, René Benjamin Constant – Adolphe Stendhal – Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), La Chartreuse de...
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    Marcel Katz Edmond Kramer Adolphe Mengotti August Oberhauser Robert Pache Aron Pollitz Hans Pulver Rudolf Ramseyer Adolphe Reymond Louis Richard Teo Schär...
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  • well: the same laws moved physical and spiritual reality. For examples see Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz and Johannes Kepler, each of whom took mathematical...
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