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    city of Geneva. He was the son of the Swiss merchant François Favre (1736-1814) and Marguerite Favre-Fuzier-Cayla. He was born in Marseille, France, and...
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    Claude Favre de Vaugelas (6 January 1585 – 26 February 1650) was a Savoyard grammarian and man of letters. Although a lifelong courtier, Claude Favre was...
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    1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers. Favre-Jacot invented the...
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    moved into open opposition. Perrin had married Françoise Favre, daughter of François Favre, a well-established Genevan merchant. Both Perrin's wife and...
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    revolution) as a civil servant on a temporary contract. François Mitterrand worked under Jean-Paul Favre de Thierrens who was a spy for the British secret service...
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    Paris: Hachette Éducation (25ª ed., 2018), in collaboration with Jean-François FAVRE, Dietrich GRUNEWALD e Jacek DEBICKI; [ Stuttgart: 1996]; [Ljubljana:...
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  • captain-general of the city's militia. He married Françoise Favre, the daughter of François Favre, a merchant draper and former Eidguenot who was active on...
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    active in Russia. Terroux was born in Geneva and trained under Jean-François Favre. She became a popular miniature painter and travelled to Russia where...
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  • superior of François Mitterrand. Later, on 12 September 1994, François Mitterrand in a television interview about his Vichyst past, talked about Favre de Thierrens...
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    also in St. Petersburg. List of compositions by François-Adrien Boieldieu List of operas by François-Adrien Boieldieu List of compositions for harp Classic...
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    Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi ɡzavje fʁɑ̃swa daʁlɑ̃]; 7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French admiral and political...
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    Jules Claude Gabriel Favre (21 March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September...
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    today. François Perregaux, James Favre-Brandt and Albert Favre Zanuti, are credited as the pioneers of mechanical watchmaking in Japan. François Perregaux...
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    by François-René de Chateaubriand at Project Gutenberg Works by or about François-René de Chateaubriand at the Internet Archive Works by François-René...
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    Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (French pronunciation: [dɔminik maʁi fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne ɡaluzo də vilpɛ̃]; born 14 November 1953) is a French...
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    Albert Favre Zanuti was a Swiss-Italian watchmaker and entrepreneur, instrumental in the development of the watchmaking industry in Japan in the 1880s...
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    great scale. Malherbe's two most important disciples were François Maynard and Racan; Claude Favre de Vaugelas is credited with having purified French diction...
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    discovered that François Guizot had substituted for her. In 1812 Mademoiselle de Meulan married Guizot. She died in 1827. (An only son, François, born in 1819...
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    domain: Bréhier, Louis René (1911). "Joseph-François Michaud". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. Works by Joseph-François Michaud at Project Gutenberg...
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    French prestige. The eldest son of François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville (1700–1770), Étienne François was born in Nancy in the Duchy of Lorraine...
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    Varenne,...{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Favre, Joseph (1849-1903) Auteur du texte (1905). Dictionnaire universel de cuisine...
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     9–17. Saint-Martin 1999, p. 13. Saint-Martin 1999, pp. 14–16. Favre 1905, p. 741. Favre, Joseph (1905), "Dubois (Urbain)", Dictionnaire universel de cuisine...
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    Jules François Simon (French pronunciation: [ʒyl simɔ̃]; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leaders...
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    high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They...
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    Roques-Briscard, Christian (1987). La passion d'Adjani, Lausanne et al.: Favre. ISBN 2-8289-0279-X Zurhorst, Meinolf (1992). Isabelle Adjani : ihre Filme...
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    165 km Benoît Girondel et François D'Haene France 23h 18mn 48s 2017 165 km Benoît Girondel France 23h 53mn 53s 2016 167 km François D'Haene France 23h 44mn...
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    Louis Favre (15 September 1892 – 17 April 1956) was a French painter, print maker, writer and inventor who spent most of his life in France and the Netherlands...
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    Jean; Pajot, Léon Louis; Favre, Léopold (1879). Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage françois (in French). Vol. 6. L. Favre. Retrieved 2022-08-27...
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  • engineering education Hermann Ende, architect François Perregaux, mechanical watchmaker Albert Favre Zanuti, mechanical watchmaker George Arnold Escher...
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    Jules François Camille Ferry (French: [ʒyl fɛʁi]; 5 April 1832 – 17 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders...
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