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    century. The Musée de l'Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée d'Artillerie and the Musée Historique de l'Armée. The Musée de l'artillerie...
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    de 12 Gribeauval Canon lourd de 12 Gribeauval Le Sarasin, 1570 kg, 1780. Musée de l'Armée, Paris Le Sarasin. Musée de l'Armée, Paris Heavy Canon de 12...
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    combine key collections from the Musée de l'Homme and Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. Curators at the Musée de l'Homme fought vigorously to...
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    the Musée Picasso, the Musée Rodin and the Musée national Eugène Delacroix. The military history of France is presented by displays at the Musée de l'Armée...
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    discovered in 1859, and was named after this battle, as was the Boulevard de Magenta in Paris. Ambès, Intimate Memoirs of Napoleon III: Personal Reminiscences...
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    Les Invalides (category Monuments and memorials in Paris)
    purpose. The buildings house the Musée de l'Armée, the museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine. The...
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    and Military History (French: Musée royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire militaire; Dutch: Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis), also known...
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    lived on his cousin's coffee plantation and became close to General Juan de Moya. Before Antommarchi died, he made General Moya a death mask from his...
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    The Musée d'Orsay (UK: /ˌmjuːzeɪ dɔːrˈseɪ/ MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: /mjuːˈzeɪ -/ mew-ZAY -⁠, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]) (English: Orsay Museum) is a museum in...
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    artillery of the second half of 14th century. The Bâton à feu at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris has an hexagonal cross-section, and looks like a steel tube. It...
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    LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums...
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    DuCamp, Jules; Brahaut, G N (1850). Histoire de l'armée et de tous les régiments, depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie française... [History of the...
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    Paris Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou Musée du quai Branly Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie Musée Maillol Musée de l'Ordre...
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    Type 3 machine gun Type 3 (Taishō 14) heavy machine gun. Musée de l'Armée, Paris Type Heavy machine gun Place of origin Empire of Japan Service history...
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    Stephen Turnbull p. 106 Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Manguin, Pierre-Yves (1976). "L'Artillerie legere nousantarienne: A propos de six canons conserves dans...
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    patents following in the following years, tested in 1893 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. The patents had been purchased in 1894–1895 by the firm of Benjamin Hotchkiss...
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    Tuileries Palace on the night of August 9–10, 1792. The radical people of Paris asserted their power by forcing the king to flee to the nearby National...
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  • French on 23 March 1862. Muzzle diameter: 97 mm. Length: 1.90 m. Musée de l'Armée, Paris Muzzle of Vietnamese wooden cannon, 1862, Vĩnh Long Japanese coastal...
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    modernized for motor traction. The breech of a mle 1897 taken at the Musée de l'Armée, Paris A M1897 with original box trail carriage but modernized with pneumatic...
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    Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac as commander (capitaine-colonel) of the Cent-Suisses, c. 1770 Cent-Suisses parade sword at the Musée de l'Armée, Paris Swiss mercenaries...
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    to live in Paris with her father and grandfather, leaving Lafayette to be raised in Chavaniac-Lafayette by his paternal grandmother, Mme de Chavaniac,...
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    Stephen Turnbull p. 106 Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Manguin, Pierre-Yves (1976). "L'Artillerie legere nousantarienne: A propos de six canons conserves dans...
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    "The history of modern Europe" – via books.google.com. Garnier, p.151-153 Musée d'Ecouen exhibit From Edith Garnier, "L'Alliance Impie", p.141. Anthony...
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    in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort (Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort), and Toulon. The permanent...
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  • for Napoleonic France by the Peace of Paris in 1815. The Grande Armée was formed in 1804 from L'Armée des côtes de l'Océan (The Army of the Ocean Coasts)...
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    Mamluks by Francisco de Goya (1814) Armenian Mamluk Roustam Raza was Napoleon's personal bodyguard; portrait by Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert (1806)...
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    brought together to form the 28th regiment de march which fought with distinction during the siege of Paris and subsequently became the 128th Regiment...
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    of escaped prisoners. In Foulley's model of the prison (at the Musée de l'Armée, Paris; pictured above) more than half the prisoners are represented wearing...
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    Jean-Adolphe Beaucé (category Painters from Paris)
    de Versailles Philippe Antoine, count of Ornano, marshal of France (1784-1863), château de Versailles Battle of Hierba-Buena, Musée de l'Armée, Paris...
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    (New York, 1968) Thomazi, A., La conquête de l'Indochine (Paris, 1934) Thomazi, A., Histoire militaire de l'Indochine français (Hanoi, 1931) Media related...
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