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    Melun (French pronunciation: [məlœ̃] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region, north-central France. It is located on...
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    during which Charles directed his gunfire at the city's walls. They then successfully entered the city when a nobleman named Charles de Melun opened Saint-Antoine...
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  • Anne Julie de Melun (Anne Julie Adélaïde; 1698 – 18 May 1724) was a French court office holder. She served as deputy Governess of the Children of France...
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    captain of the Gendarmes of the Royal Guard, and of Anne Julie Adélaïde de Melun. The eldest of five children, he was styled the Prince of Epinoy till his...
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    Villiers: 1429–14.. Philippe de Ternant: 14..–14.. Jacques de Villiers: 1461 Charles d'Artois, Count of Eu: 1465 Charles de Melun, Baron of the Landes and...
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    for reconstruction of Chaumont; In 1465, Charles de Melun, governor of Paris and the Bastille, succeeded De la Rivière. Convicted for having links with...
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    Charles Pierre François Augereau, 1st Duke of Castiglione (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl pjɛʁ oʒʁo]; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military...
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    Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (French pronunciation: [nikɔla fukɛ]; 27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent...
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    Jacques de Montmorency and Lady Philippine de Melun of Croisilles and Courrières, daughter of Hugues de Melun d'Epinoy. On the death of his father in 1414...
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  • Melun is a commune in France. Melun may also refer to: Anne de Melun (1619–1679), widely known as Mademoiselle de Melun, a noblewoman from the Spanish...
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    The Melun Diptych is a two-panel oil painting by the French court painter Jean Fouquet (c. 1420–1481) created around 1452. The name of this diptych came...
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    days later, Napoleon awarded him the victory title "Duke of Danzig" (Duc de Dantzig). In 1808, Lefebvre took part in Napoleon's campaign in the Peninsular...
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    the Hôtel de Luynes on the rue Saint Dominique. He was the only child of Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes and his wife Louise Léontine de Bourbon, he...
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    leading King Charles X to accuse Marmont of betraying the Bourbons as he had betrayed the Bonapartes. Marmont departed France with Charles's entourage and...
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    The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [ʃato də vo lə vikɔ̃t]) is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilometres...
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    Gabrielle de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin d'Auvergne. He was appointed to the Order of Saint Michael by King Charles VIII of France...
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  • Guillaume IV de Melun, Count of Tancarville, Lord of Montreuil-Bellay, was a French politician, chamberlain and advisor to King Charles VI of France. He...
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    reconciliation on a small bridge near Pouilly-le-Fort, not far from Melun where Charles was staying. They signed the Treaty of Pouilly-le-Fort in which they...
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    Masséna was granted an important command in Switzerland, replacing General Charles Edward Jennings. As Russian reinforcements marched to support the Austrian...
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  • Chabannes's other properties granted to his rivals Charles de Melun, Jean de Montespedon and Antoine de Chateauneuf. The ever-resourceful Chabannes, however...
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    Charles II d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont (1473 – 11 March 1511) was a French nobleman, who acted as French governor of Milan (1503–1511) during the...
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    Madame de Staël wrote that Hulin told her: "I want to take revenge for your father on these bastards who want to butcher us." Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny...
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    Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie, prince de Genevois and duc de Nemours (c. 1567–13 August 1595) was a French prince étranger, governor, military commander...
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    Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac (1505 (O.S.)/06 – 1563), was a French courtier and soldier, named beau Brissac at court and remembered as the Maréchal...
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    Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Pérignon (French pronunciation: [katʁin dɔminik də peʁiɲɔ̃], 31 May 1754 in Grenade – 25 December 1818)...
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    Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (category People from Pont-de-Vaux)
    France. There, he married (in June 1799) Mlle de Montholon, who was the daughter of Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville, and the future wife of Marshal Jacques...
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    Paul Barras (redirect from Paul de Barras)
    Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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    Gaston Billotte (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    Billotte's son Pierre Billotte also graduated from École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1926; joined the Free French movement and had a distinguished...
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    styled as the princesse de Lillebonne. She was the mother of Louis de Melun, Duke of Joyeuse and of Anne Julie de Melun, princesse de Soubise. A member of...
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    Guillaume III de Melun, Prince of Espinoy. Alexandre-Guillaume de Melun: married 2nd to Jeanne Pélagie de Rohan-Chabot Louis I de Melun, Prince of Epinoy:...
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