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    1486-1666, Beauvechain: Nauwelaerts, 2002, 249 p. Henrivaux Omer, Jacques Hache, abbé de Villers, Beauvechain, Nauwelaerts, 2004, 285 p. Ploegaerts Théophile &...
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    "Prévost (d'Exiles, Antoine François), Abbé". Encarta (2004 ed.). 2003. "Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine-François, Abbé". Encyclopædia Britannica (2005 ed.)....
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  • Submission (novel) (category Novels by Michel Houellebecq)
    Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion...
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    │ │ │ │ │ X Jean II, baron d'Arpajon │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └i>Jean, abbé de Senilly │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├i>Renaud (+1483), archevêque de Narbonne...
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    Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ɡijom ʒɑ̃ də kʁɛvkœʁ]; December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813), naturalized in New York...
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  • La Ville dont le prince est un enfant (play) (category Plays by Henry de Montherlant)
    Nigel Hawthorne in the role of the Abbé de Pradts. The play deals with the complex relations in a Catholic school. The abbé is torn between his human desires...
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    this "special friendship" had raised the fierce and jealous opposition of abbé de La Serre, who managed to get the older boy expelled. This incident (and...
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    all coming from France. First among these was the abbé Carcenat from Auvergne. In 1923 the abbé Thomas took over Henri's instruction and, being less...
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    E.N. Pernoud, Régine (1975) [1972 Albin Michel]. Blanche of Castile [La Reine Blanche]. Translated by Henry Noel. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
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  • (1801–1871) – bishop Allan Kardec (1804–1869) – systematizer of Spiritism Abbé Pierre (1912–2007) – founder of the Emmaus Mouvement Shlomo Aviner (born...
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    of introduction from Luc de la Corne to his brother Abbé Joseph-Marie de La Corne de Chaptes, Henry next went to France where he was met with "a most flattering...
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    (while novels by Jules Verne are cited to show that the enigma predates Abbé Saunière). The modern reputation of Rennes-le-Château rests mainly in claims...
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    brought King Henry III back to France, after his flight from his Polish kingdom. He also visited several parts of France, and at Bordeaux met Michel de Montaigne...
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  • development and standards of deaf education today. Charles-Michel de l'Épée (1712-1789), also known as the Abbé de l'Épée, was a philanthropic Catholic priest known...
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  • passages selected are narratives of some sort (# 12, covering an essay by Michel de Montaigne is one exception). The literary forms covered include epic...
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  • Candide Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon...
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  • (c1744–1793) André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell (1744–1802) Étienne Pélabon (1745–1808) Jean Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) Jean-Sifrein Maury (Abbé Maury) (1746–1817)...
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    Avignon and then Chaillot.[citation needed] In 1989, his performance as Abbé Pierre in the film Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre, for which he received the Jean...
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  • 1590) 1522 – Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (d. 1572) 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (d. 1676) 1623 – Friedrich Casimir,...
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    raising from selling Masses was used on his appeal to Rome that his lawyer, Abbé Jean-Eugène Huguet (doctor of canon law), was working on. In May 1914, Saunière...
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    under the auspices of his godfather, the Abbé Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, who was the successor of the Abbé de l'Épée as the director of the Institution...
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    Evangeline (category Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
    was the "influence" held by the French over the Acadians, particularly by Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre. American historian John Brebner eventually wrote New...
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  • 1956) 1911 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (d. 1969) 1912 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian (d. 2007) 1914 – Parley Baer, American...
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    January 1759 – 24 July 1825), Count-abbé of Saint-Phar Louis Philippe d'Orléans, (7 July 1761 – 13 June 1829), Count-abbé of Saint-Albin, Marie Étiennette...
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    Baron de Treignac, Abbé de Vigeois, Prieur de La Valette and Prévost d'Arnac († 1710). When the construction work began, the abbé was already in his eighties...
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    Secrets (2002), the latter of which was his final film role. Harris portrayed Abbé Faria in Kevin Reynolds' film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)...
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    arranged for an acquaintance of his, the Abbé Petit, to read a tragedy composed by the Abbé at d'Holbach's. When the Abbé presented his work, he preceded it...
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  • French). metz: Société d'archéologie et d'histoire de la Moselle: 135. Michel Henry (1998). Itinéraires templiers en Lorraine. Serpenoise. ISBN 978-2-87692-367-6...
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    La Chevalière d'Éon, aged 59, in a voluminous black frock. A painting by Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, violinist-composer, and painter, showed the Prince...
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    Abbé Jean-Jacques-Henri Boudet (16 November 1837 — 30 March 1915), is best known for being the French Catholic parish priest of Rennes-les-Bains between...
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