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    Milice (redirect from Franc-Gardes)
    headquarters in the old Communist Party headquarters at 44 rue Le Peletier and at 61 rue Monceau. (The house was formerly owned by the Menier family...
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    in Paris in 1803 and in the entire country in 1848, issuing the French franc. Long independent from direct political interference, it was brought under...
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    across it: rue d'Arcole, rue de la Cité and rue Constantine. To access the central market at Les Halles, he built a wide new street (today's rue Rambuteau)...
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    4 72 rue Saint-Antoine 2 rue de Turenne [517] Boutique 4 61 rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Île [518] Boutique 4 120 rue Saint-Martin 59 rue Simon-le-Franc [519]...
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    works on rue de la Vieille-Monnaie, he was responsible for printing Resistance newspapers, Témoignage chrétien, Combat, La Marseillaise and Franc-tireur...
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    Au Cadran bien , boulevard du Temple, 27. Au Rocher de Cancale, rue Montorgneil, 61. Les Trois frères provenceaux, Palais-Royal, 98. Au Veau qui tette,...
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    Carrières. Signe du destin, une nouvelle maison s'effondra le jour même dans les carrières de la rue d'Enfer ! » Histoire de l'IGC Archived 2018-10-05 at the...
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    and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is the starting point of the Rue de la Paix. Its regular architecture by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and pedimented...
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    (Libération-Sud) Jacques-Henri Simon (Organisation Civile et Militaire) Claude Bourdet (Combat) Eugène Claudius-Petit (Franc-Tireur) Under Jean Moulin's...
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    Charles Léon Denuelle de la Plaigne was born on 13 December 1806 at No. 29, Rue de la Victoire, 9th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France, to Napoleon and...
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    produce market, Les Halles, long unfinished. He approached the Parliament and received authorisation to borrow fifty million francs. The Emperor's ambitions...
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    me. Louis Comte's recruitment of Jacques Simon came with leonine conditions, as he agreed, "for 400 francs a year, food and clothing, to swallow, for...
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    companions bound themselves by vows in the Martyrium of Saint Denis, 11 Rue Yvonne Le Tac, the first step in the creation of the Jesuits. Near the end of...
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  • at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. It is split between the 6th...
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    Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun (1748 – 7 August 1813) was a French painter, art collector and art dealer. Simon Denis was his pupil. Born in Paris, he was...
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    The Palais-Royal (French: [pa. ʁwa.jal]) is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened...
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    Verdier Les Trois Mousquetaires (1953) - Commentant le film par la voix de (voice) Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) - Inspector Bonnard Les mauvaises...
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    Musée Carnavalet (category Le Marais)
    Gallery of shop signs Sign of Le Chat Noir, a popular 19th century cabaret Shop sign for the boutique La Maison Henry, on rue de Faubourg Saint-Honoré (c...
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  • Hubert, the purchase of the Hôtel de Richelieu on rue Cadet in August 1852 for the sum of 450,000 gold francs, which threatened to weigh heavily on the Order's...
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    1835 and 1837, when Vigée Le Brun was in her eighties, with the help of her nieces Caroline Rivière and Eugénie Tripier Le Franc [fr], she published her...
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    Lyotard, Nestor Makhno, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Moulin, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jean-Baptiste Say, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, J. R. D. Tata, Adolphe Thiers...
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    Benjamin Franklin, signed the Treaty of Paris at the Hôtel d'York (now 56 Rue Jacob) in Paris, granting the United States independence. On 4 September...
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    French in World War I. Convinced that the civilian population was hiding francs-tireurs, the German General Staff issued orders to execute the population...
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    moved to rue de Paradis, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris . Gérard acquires his financial independence and lived with Jacques Sigurd on the rue du Dragon...
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    and studio of Viollet-le-Duc at 68 rue Condorcet, Paris (1862) Maison Courmont, 28 rue de Liège, Paris 15 rue de Douai, Paris 23 rue Chauchat, Paris Scots...
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    la Franc-Maçonnerie (in French) Inauguration de la statue du Chevalier de la Barre (Inauguration of the statue of the Knight Barre). (in French) Les 3...
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    G., Histoire de Charles VII, Tome I: Le Dauphin (1403–1422), Librairie de la Société bibliographiqque, 35 Rue de Grenelle, Paris, 1881, pp. 32 & 48 Fierro...
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    Milza 2009a, pp. 9–11. Horne 2012, Chapter 17. "Mayer Simon, Charles" (in French). Aubervilliers: Le Maitron Dictionnaire Biographique. Archived from the...
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    Restoration was made in 1829-30 when he agreed to pay 744,600 francs for properties on the rue Saint-Honoré owned by Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater...
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    House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44–50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville...
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