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    Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux. The Nivelles arrondissement includes...
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  • Jean de Nivelle (1422 – 26 June 1477) was a French nobleman, son of Jean II of Montmorency who became a byword for failing to fulfill filial duties and...
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  • Chien de Jean de Nivelle (Jean de Nivelle's dog) is an animal or a man who does not want to obey when called, as in the expression Here comes the dog...
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    Jean de Nivelle is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. It premiered on 6 March 1880 at the...
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    Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude de Nivelles) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which was built in...
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    Jean de Montmorency-Nivelle and Wismes (1422 – 26 June 1477), known as Jean de Nivelle. Among his descendants was his great-grandson Philippe II de Montmorency...
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    de Nivelles (French for "The Metallurgical Workshops of Nivelles"). The company was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1988, plants in Nivelles...
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    Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina...
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  • Gaspard de Chenu, a writer of spiritual and satirical songs, wrote the song "Cadet Rousselle" to the tune of a song about Jean de Nivelle. The song...
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    to Charleroi crosses the National road (N234) going from Nivelles to Leuven. Mont-Saint-Jean is on the reverse slope of the escarpment where the Battle...
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    Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia (French: [ʒɑ̃dədjø sult]; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman...
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  • Strings Dudley Buck – Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction Léo Delibes – Jean de Nivelle Miguel Marqués – Florinda Adolf Neuendorff – The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der...
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    Léo Delibes (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
    The Era, 14 March 1880, p. 7 Pottinger, Mark. "Léo Delibes, Jean de Nivelle: Dossier de presse parisienne", Music and Letters, August 2008, pp. 434–435...
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    son of Jean II de Montmorency and his second wife Marguerite d'Orgemont. His father decided in 1472 to disinherit his eldest son Jean de Nivelle following...
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  • Carolingian dynasty. She entered the monastery of Nivelles, and she succeeded her aunt Saint Gertrude of Nivelles as abbess in 659 AD. The fall of her father...
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    Mouse's account, to literally see whether "it gathers any moss?" Chien de Jean de Nivelle Fortune favours the bold It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings Adagia...
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    The Nivelle offensive (16 April – 9 May 1917) was a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War which was named after General...
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    Saint-Jean-de-Luz (French: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ d(ə) lyz]; Basque: Donibane Lohitzune, locally Donibane Lohizune [doniˈβane lohiˈs̻une]; Occitan: Sent Joan de Lus [sen...
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    Brussels, and Nivelles and Leuven. It was originally built in 1895 as the home of a French industrialist who had made his fortune in Mont-Saint-Jean, Waterloo...
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    was born in Nivelles, and studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels under Louis Simonis. After winning the Belgian Prix de Rome, he lived...
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    Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World...
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  • was first played at Golf de La Nivelle in Saint-Jean-de-Luz near the Spanish border and San Sebastián, before moving to Golf de Fourqueux near Paris. In...
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    Le Grand Occident de France, who in 1912 broke with the royalist party.[citation needed] In 1882 the daily columnist "Jean de Nivelles" (Charles Canivet)...
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    Léau, Louvain (2 cantons) and Tirlemont (2 cantons). Nivelles: Genappe, Hérinnes, Jodoigne, Nivelles (2 cantons), Perwez and Wavre. After the defeat of...
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    Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl ʒɑ̃ batist silvɛstʁ də vilnœv]; 31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806)...
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    C'est le chien de Jean de Nivelle (1921) (Paul Verlaine) Voice and piano Allerseelen (1914) (H. von Gilm) Douwdeuntje (1916) (René de Clercq) Fêtes Galantes...
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  • Opéra-Comique in 1879 where his many creations included an old man in Jean de Nivelle in 1880, Luther in les Contes d’Hoffmann in 1881, a sergeant in Manon...
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    Bayonne 7 Toulouse 6 5 4 3 Nivelle 2 1    The Battle of Nivelle (10 November 1813) took place in front of the river Nivelle near the end of the Peninsular...
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  • Thierry, he wrote a daily column for the Soleil under the pseudonym "Jean de Nivelle". After trying the theater, he left numerous literary works in the...
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  • Jean Omer (September 9, 1912, Nivelles – May 30, 1994, Brussels) was a Belgian jazz reedist and bandleader. Omer played violin before switching to clarinet...
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