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    The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; died 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV...
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    influences. Until 1871, Alsace included the area now known as the Territoire de Belfort, which formed its southernmost part. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was...
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  • Charles-Gustave Stoskopf (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
    especially near Colmar, and in the Territoire de Belfort. He redesigned the Place de l'Homme-de-Fer in Strasbourg from 1952 to 1956. Meanwhile, from...
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    name "Railway station from Paris to Montereau" (fr. Embarcadère de chemin de fer de Paris à Montereau). It was a boardwalk building designed by architect...
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  • L'Histoire de l'Homme au Masque de Fer. Topin, Marius (1870). L'Homme au masque de fer. Paris: Didier. Funck-Brentano, Frantz (1933). Le Masque de fer. Paris:...
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    the emblem of the French resistance gave de Gaulle the nickname L'Homme du 18 juin (The Man of 18 June). De Gaulle had recently been promoted to the rank...
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    explained his support for de Gaulle during the darkest hours, calling him "L'homme du destin". In Casablanca in 1943, Churchill supported de Gaulle as the embodiment...
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    in September 1910. De Gaulle took up his place at Saint-Cyr in October 1910. By the end of his first year he had risen to 45th place. He was nicknamed...
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    was the symbol of Free France chosen by Charles de Gaulle. The cross could be seen in the same places on FAFL aircraft where the roundels had been on...
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    sur L'Homme first appeared as a whole Geoffrey Tillotson, Augustan Studies, pp.40-42 L’acier qui fait tomber les sapins et les chênes, Le fer qui de Cérès...
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  • Comité de libération du cinéma français was an organization of filmmakers in France created in 1943. The most well-known members are Jacques Becker, Pierre...
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    ethnographic museum, founded by Ernest Hamy, forerunner of the Musée de l'Homme. The Trocadéro gardens were designed by Adolphe Alphand. From 1880, a...
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    museums: the Musée national de la Marine (naval museum) and the Musée de l'Homme (ethnology) in the southern (Passy) wing. the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine...
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    (ed.). Jules hardouin-Mansart 1646–1708. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. pp. 215–228. ISBN 9782735111879. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    quarante, Suivi de L'Homme de Fer: Songe (lit. The Year Two Thousand Four Hundred and Forty, Followed by The Iron Man: Dream, with L'Homme de Fer: Songe being...
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    Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme, and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created...
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    Le Silence de la mer (French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ], English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean...
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    Verte – Homme de Fer – Gallia (line B); place de Bordeaux – Wacken and Droits de l'Homme – Robertsau Boecklin (line E); Gare centrale – Pont de Saverne (line...
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  • actes de malversation imputes a la direction de la Sosumo durant la periode 2006-2007 (PDF) (in French), IGE, 2009, retrieved 2024-09-10 "Un bras de fer qui...
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    when It was taken over by its competitor, the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), incorporating it into the Paris Métro. The original...
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    lion abattu par l'homme, III.10) The man and the wooden idol (L'homme et l'idole de bois, IV.8) The Man who Runs after Fortune (L'homme qui court après...
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    bateau à vapeur – locomotive et chemins de fer – locomobiles – machine électrique – paratonnerres – pile de Volta – électro-magnétisme". Via BnF (Gallica)...
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    époque. L'Echappée. p. 89. Flassch, Armand-Henry (1930). Liabeuf, l’homme aux brassards de fer. Librairie Bernardin-Béchet. Hesse, Raymond (1912). Les Criminels...
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    Mask". There is a sign at the château that says "Prison dite de l'Homme au Masque de Fer" ("Said to be the prison of the Man in the Iron Mask"), but this...
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    Louvre (category Institut de France)
    Erlande-Brandebourg, l'homme des cathédrales", Grande Galerie – le Journal du Louvre, 52: 12 "Le Jeu de Paume en 10 dates". Jeu de Paume. Archived from...
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    Jean Moulin (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    heroes of the French Resistance and for his efforts to unify it under Charles de Gaulle. He was tortured by German officer Klaus Barbie while in Gestapo custody...
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    the Chemins de Fer du Nord. In 1857 he entered journalism and gave a large number of articles on agronomy and zootechnics in the Journal de l'Agriculture...
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  • remarquables de l'histoire des comtes de Flandre depuis Baudouin Ier dit Bras de fer, jusqu'à Charles II, roi d'Espagne. chez J.-L. de Boubers. André...
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    occasional exhibitions. The famous historical character known as L'homme au masque de fer (The Man in the Iron Mask) spent some years captive in the fortress...
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    d'Apollon." Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles (1902): 91–100. Francastle, Pierre. La Sculpture de Versailles. (Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1970). Friedman...
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