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    Bonaparte, Napoleon (1869), "No. 22060", in Polon, Henri; Dumaine, J. (eds.), Correspondance de Napoléon Ier; publiée par ordre de l'empereur Napoléon III (1858)...
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    Belgium (redirect from Belgique)
    België [ˈbɛlɣijə] ; French: Belgique [bɛlʒik] ; German: Belgien [ˈbɛlɡi̯ən] Dutch: Koninkrijk België; French: Royaume de Belgique [ʁwa.jom də bɛl.ʒik] ; German:...
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    thanks to the dozens of companies launched by the Société Générale de Belgique. The Industrial Revolution and the opening of the Brussels–Charleroi Canal...
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    October 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013. Pirenne, Henri (1948). Histoire de Belgique (in French). Vol. VII: De la Révolution de 1830 à la Guerre de 1914 (2nd ed...
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  • and morale functions, also played important communication roles. Under Napoléon, the numbers and responsibilities of the gendarmerie—renamed gendarmerie...
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    then privatized in 1987. It acquired control of the Société Générale de Belgique in 1988, and changed name again to Compagnie de Suez in 1990. In 1997,...
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    himself the sole owner of the works. He also was a founder of the Banque de Belgique, in 1835. During John Cockerill's lifetime, the factories produced not...
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    partly out of the fear that large banks, like the Société Générale de Belgique could develop a monopoly in the industry. Considering that the railways...
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    de Belgique (in French). Vol. I: 1830–1905. Brussels: Éd. Complexe. ISBN 2-8048-0066-0. Dumont, Georges-Henri (1996). La Vie Quotidienne en Belgique sous...
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    the lack of safety on the mainland trading routes, made possible the development of major commercial routes along the coast of the Mediterranean and Baltic...
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    Prince-Bishopric of Liège was confirmed in 1801 by the Concordat co-signed by Napoléon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII. France lost the city in 1815 when the Congress...
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    original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2013. "Le rêve arabe de Napoléon III". lhistoire.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 21 January...
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    body of Napoleon I to France. The Prince Alfred visited the island in 1860 en route to Tristan Da Cunha. Empress Eugénie (widow of Napoleon III) arrived...
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    February 2021). "L'histoire d'amour du roi Léopold III qui a scandalisé la Belgique". Vanity Fair (in French). Retrieved 26 July 2024. Evelyn Graham, Albert...
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    (in Dutch)[permanent dead link‍] Tornare, A.-J. (2003), Les Vaudois de Napoléon: des Pyramides à Waterloo 1798–1815 (in French) (Cabedita ed.), Cabédita...
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    autres projections en France (Paris, Lyon, La Ciotat, Grenoble) et en Belgique (Bruxelles, Louvain) auront lieu avec un programme de films plus étoffé...
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    Bruyssel, Ernest Jean (1865). Histoire du commerce et de la marine en Belgique. Vol. 3. Bruxelles. pp. 295–299.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing...
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    lower speed, the line's oldest vessel at the time, the paddle steamer Belgique (built in 1862) was employed during the war in more militarily protected...
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    hieroglyphs. One of the Institut de France first members and speakers was Napoléon Bonaparte, who took the place of Carnot after the latter had been removed...
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  • Revue des Deux Mondes, Tome 1, Paris 1833, p.314. "Napoléon et la noblesse impériale". www.napoleon.org. Archived from the original on 2002-04-14. Retrieved...
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    Etranger (Suisses)". Les Uniformes pendant la campagne des Cent Jours - Belgique 1815 (in French). Retrieved 2 August 2021. "1er Bataillon du 2ème Régiment...
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    the secessionist State of Katanga. Edward A. Burke Lindsay Burke Louis Napoléon Chaltin Camille Coquilhat Alexandre Delcommune Francis Dhanis Paul Ermens...
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    The second, a much smaller force of only eight-hundred, was led by Louis-Napoléon Chaltin and took the main road towards Rejaf. Both expeditions set out...
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    l'architecture en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas vers 1900. Septentrion. p. 38. Horta, Victor (1925). Discours de Victor Horta à l'Académie Royal de Belgique. Sembach...
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    war, under titles such as Notre alliée fidèle la France, La Courageuse Belgique, Sur la signification de la guerre en cours et le devoir de la mener jusqu'à...
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    (Traduttore), Jaca Book, 2022, ISBN 978-8816417557 Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique: Bruxelles (PDF) (in French). Vol. 1B: Pentagone E-M. Liège: Pierre Mardaga...
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  • 2004), p. 297. J. Raineau, "Une École de gravure à Amsterdam sous Louis Napoléon: Le projet de Jean-Baptiste De Bouge (1808-1811)", in Échanges artistiques...
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    la France: 126. By Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz. Paris. 1770. Voyage dans la Belgique, la Hollande et l'Italie (1796–1798): 173. By André Thouin. Paris. 1841...
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    Vallé de Loncey (1888). Les races de chevaux de trait (in French). France, Belgique, Angleterre: Bureaux de l'Acclimatation. p. 368. Cegarra, Marie (1999)...
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    mythe païen au symbole chrétien. Classe des beaux-arts, Académie royale de Belgique. p. 62ff. ISSN 0775-3276. The chapter devoted to the Siren and the Centaur...
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