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    From 1704 to 1709, he studied at the Académie de France à Rome and, in 1712, was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture...
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    assert his claims. During a battle near Dalhem, he killed Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (20 September 1085), making him fall out of favor with the...
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  • Duke Orsini on the Esquiline hill; in 1696, to the Farnese Gardens on the Palatine. Finally, the generosity of John V of Portugal, one of its members under...
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    in the Ottoman Empire, Stanisław accepted the rule of the tiny state of Palatine Zweibrücken, a small state of the Holy Roman Empire which was in personal...
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    Champs Carrefour de l'Odéon Rue de l'Odéon Rue Palatine named after Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Princess Palatine (1648–1723) Rue Pierre Sarrazin Rue des Poitevins...
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    Madeleine Laurain-Portemer Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Phulrenu...
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  • The Academy of Sedan (Fr.: Académie de Sedan) was a Huguenot academy in Sedan in the Principality of Sedan, founded in 1579 and suppressed in 1681. It...
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    problems at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. On his return from studying in Italy he was admitted to the refounded Académie de peinture et...
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    France. The King and the Cardinal are remembered for establishing the Académie française, and ending the revolt of the French nobility. They systematically...
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    300 known riddles) Six riddles from the Palatine Anthology are available in English translation in Palatine Anthology, trans. by W. R. Paton, Loeb Library...
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    Nicolas de Pigage (category Members of the Académie royale d'architecture)
    In 1743 he began his studies at the École Militaire, changing to the Académie Royale d'Architecture after only one year studying under Jacques-François...
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    Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (category Members of the Académie Française)
    corresponding member of the Académie française and during his life he hold a large library. On 4 May 1758 he was made a Palatine Lieutenant General and on...
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    Chartres. The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture occupied the Palais Brion from 1661 to 1691 and shared it with the Académie Royale d'Architecture...
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    that Marcus reside in the House of Tiberius, the imperial palace on the Palatine, and take up the habits of his new station, the aulicum fastigium or 'pomp...
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    Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (category Members of the Académie Française)
    Versailles. He was appointed tutor to the Dauphin in 1670 and elected to the Académie Française a year later. In 1681, he was appointed Bishop of Meaux, a position...
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    François Couperin thrived. In 1661, Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse, and in 1669, the Académie d'Opéra, important driving events in the evolution...
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    notably in the painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun exhibited at the Royal Académie Salon de Paris in August 1787, showing her with her children. Around the...
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  • Pierre de Boissat (category Members of the Académie Française)
    translator. Knight and Count Palatine, Boissat began his career in the military. He was one of the first members of the Académie française, and first to occupy...
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    Louis, Count of Clermont (category Members of the Académie Française)
    title to Lacorne, his dancing master." Both the Cousin biography and the Académie française biography omit all reference to his Masonic activities. On 16...
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    few works such as the Madonna in Glory with Four Saints (1530) in the Palatine Gallery at Palazzo Pitti, whose characteristics anticipate the devotional...
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  • Sacrificing to Idols (French: Jéroboam sacrifiant aux idoles) 1752 115 x 145 cm Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris) Oil on canvas The Joys of Motherhood c. 1752 Indianapolis...
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    Bellamy (Black Sam), English-born pirate (b. 1689) Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (b. 1637) John King, pirate (b. c. 1706/9) May...
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    Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (category Members of the Académie Française)
    Katharine Prescott Wormeley). The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine (1899, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley). The Essays of Sainte-Beuve...
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    Thalun moves the capital of Burma from Pegu to Ava. February 22 – The Académie française in Paris is formally constituted, as the national academy for...
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    anatomy of the mouth, and in particular the visibility of the base of palatine uvula, faucial pillars and the soft palate. Although such medical scoring...
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    European Charles Prize of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft Medal of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France, Paris, France Medal...
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    that would be for the visual arts what Académie Française was for French literature; this was to become the Académie Royale. Anne's regency formally ended...
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  • Washington D.C. National Gallery, London Los Angeles County Museum of Art Palatine Gallery, Florence Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Ukrainian Museums Web Gallery...
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  • theory, Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin Oeuvres Scientifiques, Volume II, Académie Royale de Belgique, Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 2001, 3–16. Partitioning...
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    underground altar was in the valley of the Circus Maximus at the foot of the Palatine (the site of horse races). On the summer Consualia (August 21) it was customary...
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