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    demonstrating a profound influence of the ethical principles championed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. During a month-long stay with the affluent sugar and coffee...
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  • (my) country" (or home, or homeland). According to J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur in "What is an American", the third of his Letters from an American Farmer...
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    Fort Crevecoeur (French: Fort Crèvecœur) was the first public building erected by Europeans within the boundaries of the modern state of Illinois and the...
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  • Pascaline Crêvecoeur (born 30 April 1982) is a French-speaking actress in both cinema and theatre. She graduated from Insas, National Institute of Performing...
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  • Chateaubriand Auguste Comte André Comte-Sponville Jean de Crèvecœur Guy Debord Gilles Deleuze Natalie Depraz Jacques Derrida René Descartes, scientist and philosopher...
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    Society Jean-Roch Rioux, "Louis Hennepin," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003 "The Site of Fort de Crèvecoeur",...
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    month before it fell. Rethel was the birthplace of: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868), geologist and antiquary Louis Christophe François...
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    she inspired in Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1757, but she was also for fifty years in a relationship with the poet and academician Jean François de Saint-Lambert...
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    "Putting Canada on the map". National Post. Cartier, Jacques (1993). Cook, Ramsay (ed.). Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p...
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  • Claire Maurier: Marion Philippe Avron: Bertrand Georges Marchal: Crèvecœur Jacques Monod: Jean Balue André Oumansky: Leyradin Guy Kerner: Tristan L'Hermite...
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    Valley specimen and European Upper Paleolithic modern humans. Hublin, Jean-Jacques; McPherron, Shannon (31 March 2012). Modern Origins: A North African...
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  • Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938 – 15 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique...
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  • Plutarch, Epictetus, Tacitus, Dante, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin...
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    Jacques Dessain, Claude Fath, and Jean-Jacques Karman, Journal d'Aubervilliers, 1984 to 1987, 3 volumes, Aubervilliers, 288 pages (in French) Jacques...
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    (1450–1514), Marshal of France in 1476 Philippe de Crèvecœur d'Esquerdes (1418–1494), Marshal of France in 1486 Jean de Baudricourt, Lord of Choiseul and Bailiff...
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    about the breeds that might have contributed to its development;: 11  the Crèvecœur, Dorking and Polish have been mentioned as possible "ancestors".: 128 ...
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    Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), French-American writer Jean-Jacques Boisard (1744–1833), writer who specialized in fables Jean-François Boisard...
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    Shadow in the light] (in French). Crèvecœur-le-Grand: Éditions du Moulin-Alidor. p. 143. ISBN 978-2-917190-08-1. Fouré, Jean-Marie (2009). Amiens : du Tram...
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    resold in 1804 to Marshal of the Empire Jean Lannes, and then resold once again, in 1818, to the Parisian banker Jacques Laffitte. Starting in 1834, Lafitte...
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  • Katangese authorities Moïse Tshombe, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe, Frédéric Vandewalle, Colonel Crèvecœur, Guy Weber, Jacques Bartelous, and ONUC authorities. According...
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    Newfoundland, thus promoting French interests. In 1534, Francis I of France sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland...
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    married the French industrialist Jean Lion, and became a French citizen. They were married in the French town of Crèvecœur-le-Grand, in a wedding presided...
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  • Everts & Vrij 2000, p. 519. Doortmont, Michel R.; Everts, Natalie; Vrij, Jean Jacques (2000). "Tussen de Goudkust, Nederland en Suriname. De Euro-Afrikaanse...
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  • George Bateman Fanny Burney (anonymously) – Cecilia J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur – Letters from an American Farmer Pierre Choderlos de Laclos – Les Liaisons...
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    Bochart - Jean-Jacques Boisard - Adolphe Brongniart - Jacques de Callières - Pierre Chaunu - François Coppée - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur - Pierre...
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    Jacques Higelin at the guitar was released in 1960. Her first musical hit was 1963's Les Vendanges de l'Amour. In 1961 her new husband, director Jean-Gabriel...
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  • Crèvecoeur 1958 : La Passe du diable (The Devil's Pass) with Pierre Schoendoerffer 1960 : Les Distractions "Homme De Conviction, Le Cineaste Jacques Dupont...
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  • first fort on the east bank of the Illinois River, and named it Fort Crèvecœur. Eleven years later, in 1691, another fort was built by de Tonti and his...
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    military adviser, Major Guy Weber, on 13 July 1960 appointed Major Jean-Marie Crèvecœur to train an army for Katanga. To disguise its military nature, the...
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    director Jean Grémillon. By the early 1950s, he had become one of the top male stars of French cinema, second only, perhaps, to actor Jean Marais. He...
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