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    Confederation (1904, 1911) "Quai Robert-Comtesse" in Neuchâtel and "Rue Robert-Comtesse" in Cernier are named after Comtesse. "Frühere Departmentsvorsteher/Innen"...
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    The Hospice Comtesse or Hospice Notre-Dame is a 17th-century hospice on Rue de la Monnaie in the Old Town area of Lille, France, first built in 1236 by...
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    The Rue Bleue is a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. In February 1789, for the beautiful eyes of the Comtesse de Buffon, the Duke of Orléans (Philippe...
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    a while. Dreaming of a house larger than the one in rue Sainte-Anne, Gourdan moved to rue Comtesse-d'Artois in 1763, in a building then owned by a grocer...
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    Preferring the privacy of her own house in the rue d'Astorg and at Bois-Boudran in the country, the Comtesse Greffulhe never dined out except at the British...
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    musée de l'hospice comtesse. Retrieved 2024-04-29. "Avenue du Peuple Belge". www.lille.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-29. "lille rue roisin, credit du...
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    Saint-Esprit (Paris, rue Lhomond) 1780: Ancienne Laiterie de Madame Versailles, 2 rue Vauban. ????–1780: Music pavilion for the comtesse de Provence (Versailles...
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    religious institutions in the town and its surroundings, including the Hospice Comtesse and the Carmelites at Lille, the Carmelites at Douai, the Benedictines...
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    l'auteur des «Fées à la mode» devint «Mother Bunch»: Métamorphoses de Comtesse d'Aulnoy en Angleterre" ("How the Author of 'Fairies à la mode' became...
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    "Jeanne Loynes (comtesse de, 1837-1908)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 10 March 2019. Baldick 1971, p. 237. Holden 1950, p. 142. "LA COMTESSE DE LOYNES, Gerard...
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    in Paris. Her 1911 building of a housing project for the working poor at Rue de la Colonie, in the 13th arrondissement, was considered to be a model for...
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  • February 2014. Colette, Emilio Terry, et al. (1965). Homage à Marie-Blanche, Comtesse Jean de Polignac, Monaco. "Jeanne Lanvin" and "Claude Montana" in Morgan...
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    is an 18th-century French hôtel particulier (a type of townhouse) at 14 Rue Saint-Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It serves as the official...
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  • Willibald Gluck. He goes to Marie-Joséphine's cousin, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, who agrees to produce an opera he has written to demonstrate...
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    "Rumpelmayer" opened in Paris at rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, by owners different from the rue de Rivoli's. Eventually, the rue de Rivoli shop renamed itself...
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    Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verrue (18 January 1670 – 18 November 1736) was a French noblewoman and the mistress of Victor Amadeus...
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    Rapp and 29 Avenue Rapp. The building was originally commissioned by the Comtesse de Montessuy as her residence, and is sometimes called the Hôtel Montessuy...
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    "Comtesse d'Haussonville". Frick Collection. Retrieved 3 November 2015. Knight, Christopher (2 November 2009). "Critic's Notebook: Ingres' 'Comtesse d'Haussonville'...
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    Richelieu. On her marriage to du Barry's brother, she became Marie-Jeanne, Comtesse du Barry, and in April 1769 she became the official mistress (maîtresse...
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    In 1897, the Bazar was located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris at 17 Rue Jean-Goujon, inside a large wooden warehouse which the organisers had reconstituted...
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    Perry (ed.). A Trip to the Country: by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat. Wayne State University Press. pp. 1–17. ISBN 978-0-8143-3681-6...
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    brands have their main store in 8th arrondissement, Avenue Montaigne or Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, both in the Champs-Élysées Avenue shopping district...
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  • The countesses of the Gestapo (French: Les comtesses de la Gestapo) were elite adventuresses of the Paris demimonde protected by the French Gestapo and...
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    usually just referred to as Baron de Besenval. The premises are at 142 Rue de Grenelle in the district of Faubourg Saint-Germain in the 7th arrondissement...
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    Bergholt, Ernest (1941). A New Book of Patience Games. Routledge. Blanccoeur, Comtesse de (1860–70). Le Livre Illustré des Patiences. Brussels. Cadogan, Lady...
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    French music publisher Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861–1942), French painter Comtesse de Buyer-Mimeure, the former Miss Daisy Polk (fl. 1917), American activist...
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    ended his days in the oven of doctor Petiot) Eder, Cyril (2007). Les Comtesses de la Gestapo [Countesses of the Gestapo]. Éditions Grasset. ISBN 978-2-2466-7401-6...
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  • birth. Françoise Antoinette Louise de Noailles (1763–1788), who became the Comtesse de Thezan du Pourjol. Anne Paule Dominique de Noailles (June 22, 1766 –...
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  • Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (née, de Ségur; known as the Comtesse d'Armaillé; 8 January 1830 – 7 December 1918) was a French writer, biographer,...
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  • Maxime Le Bailly, comtesse de La Falaise (25 June 1922 – 30 April 2009), was an English-Irish 1950s model, and, in the 1960s, an underground movie actress...
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