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    Chambre des Comptes, chamber of the accounts, was the treasury of the kingdom, and the courts were divided between the Chambre civile and the Chambre...
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    sieges. The studium, or private study of Clement VI, is commonly called the chambre du cerf (room of the stag), on account of the justly-celebrated 14th-century...
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    Le Jardin des supplices (1899) (Torture Garden, New York, 1931; The Garden of Tortures, London, 1938) . Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1900) (A Chambermaid's...
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    Patibular fork (category Instruments of torture)
    Ferrière, Claude de (1744). Les Oeuvres de Me Jean Bacquet, avocat du Roy en la Chambre du tresor (in French). Vol. 1. d'Ableiges, Jacques (1868). Le grand coutumier...
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  • Filastre, also known as La Filastre (1645–1680), was a French poisoner and occultist, one of the many involved in l'affaire des Poisons. In her testimony...
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    1. Le Cas des casiers carnassiers 2012: Malphas 2. Torture, luxure et lecture 2013: Malphas 3. Ce qui se passe dans la cave reste dans la cave 2014:...
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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert helped to hush things up. De La Reynie re-established the special court, the Chambre Ardente ("burning court"), to judge cases of poisoning...
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    palace; the Chambre des Comptes (chamber of the accounts), was the treasury of the kingdom, and the courts were divided between the Chambre civile and...
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    2022. Flandre, Flandreinfo be-L'Actu de (20 July 2023). "La Chambre approuve l'interdiction des pratiques de conversion" (in French). VRT NWS. Retrieved...
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    The Count of Monte Cristo (category Works originally published in Journal des débats)
    the rank of general in the French army, and purchases a peerage in the Chambre des Pairs, keeping secret his betrayal of the Pasha Alì Tebelen and the selling...
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    becomes increasingly warm and sunny around June. Nice is the seat of the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie Nice Côte d'Azur, which manages the Port of...
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    "L'affaire des fiches : un scandale républicain". Les collections de l'Histoire (33): 38–39. Erreur de date : la révélation de l'affaire à la Chambre par Guyot...
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    Maison du Roi and of the Bureau de la Ville de Paris soon took their place. In 1770, the archives of the Chambre des Comptes were placed in the Louvre's...
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    counterpart. Like Clara in Le Jardin des supplices (The Torture Garden) and Célestine in Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (The Diary of a Chambermaid), Lucien...
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    L'Hôtel des ombres, Seuil, 2011, 220 p. Voir l'explication des aboutissants de la conférence dans Hugues Tertrais, la piastre et le fusil. Le coût de la guerre...
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    and Élie, duc Decazes; Louis himself followed a cautious policy. The chambre introuvable, elected in 1815, given the nickname "unobtainable" by Louis...
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    Gouvernement de la Belgique relatif à la visite effectuée en Belgique par le Comité européen pour la prévention de la torture et des peines ou traitements...
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  • Henri Lagriffoul (category École des Beaux-Arts alumni)
    des Arts et Techniques, 1937 Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Lagriffoul, Henri (1950). Conseils pratiques sur la sculpture...
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  • his education in Cours Camus. He and his mother moved to Avenue des Terrasses de la Corniche Fleurie, located above the city, around 1971.[citation needed]...
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    construed to darken the memory of a historical period. Parlement, Chambre des comptes, Cour des Aides, Grand Conseil together Quetel, Claude. Les lettres de...
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  • § Chambre de l'instruction Chambre de l'instruction name given to the old § Chambre d'accusation following the law of 15 June 2000 on the § Loi sur la présomption...
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    population of the commune is relatively old. Abbeville is the seat of the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie d'Abbeville – Picardie maritime [fr]. It manages...
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    CHAMBRE DES REPRÉSENTANTS DE BELGIQUE. "Interview: Belgian Defence Minister pledges to rebuild country's armed forces". www.brusselstimes.com. "LA DÉFENSE...
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    anti-German and pro-war. During the vote on the Munich Agreement in the Chambre des députés on 4 October 1938, Blum voted for the Munich Agreement. During...
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     84–85) Battegay (2014, p. 102) "Affaire du centre d'hébergement d'Arenc: La chambre d'accusation de Lyon déboute M. Salah Berrebouh de sa plainte pour détention...
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    Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, until he became 1669 First Valet de chambre (German: Erster Lacquay und Taffeldecker) of Crown Prince Carl of Mecklenburg-Güstrow...
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    being tortured in a public place while Sébastien calls for a sign from God. As he dances on hot embers, lilies emerge from the ground. La Chambre Magique...
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  • démissionne de la présidence de la Chambre des conseillers », Business News, 25 janvier 2011 « Démission d'Abdallah Kallel, le président de la Chambre des conseillers...
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    population of Lille and the need to embellish the square prompted the Chambre des Comptes to lease public land adjoining the cemetery to residents. The...
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    Costa-Gavras. The film, based on the book by Lise London, explores the mental tortures facing the vice-minister of the Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia when...
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