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    René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART, also UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58  was a French philosopher...
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    driver Cathy Muller. Ever the optimists, the small French team of Louis Descartes embarked on another run in the world championship. They built a second...
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    amateurs and a number filled out the grids. French driver-constructors Louis Descartes and Jacques Heuclin had started the season with their ALD 02 but arrived...
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    After reasonable success recently, small French driver-constructor Louis Descartes had four cars at Le Mans. Along with last year's 04, there was the...
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    co-driver. Another small French driver-constructor partnership was Louis Descartes and Jacques Heuclin. After a good race in 1987, they returned to Le...
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  • Jabouille 4 6 Keke Rosberg All Yannick Dalmas All Pierre-Henri Raphanel 4 Louis Descartes ALD C91 Spice SE89C Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 L V8 Ford Cosworth DFZ 3...
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    two inventors of the mechanical calculator. Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal...
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  • Fukuyama 10 Kiyoshi Misaki 10 Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 03 ALD 04 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 A 177 Louis Descartes 1–2, 5–6, 8–9 Gérard Tremblay 1, 3–4, 6–8...
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    8 24 Alan Serpaggi Automobiles Louis Descartes Ret DNS Ret Ret Ret 5 DNS 8 24 Marc Fontan Automobiles Louis Descartes Ret Ret 5 DNS 8 24 Jean Messaoudi...
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    Descartes (French pronunciation: [dekaʁt] ) is a large village and commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is approximately 29...
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  • 91 Richard Piper 2 David Brodie 2 Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 02 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 A 92 Louis Descartes 1–3, 5, 7–8 Jacques Heuclin 1–3, 5, 7–8 Hubert...
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  • Belmondo Ukyo Katayama Cougar C22-Porsche C1 66 DNF DNF 1990 Automobiles Louis Descartes Gérard Tremblay Jacques Heuclin ALD C289-Ford Cosworth C2 36 DNF DNF...
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    Lycée Louis-le-Grand in 1814, Collège royal de Louis le Grand in 1815, Collège royal Louis-le-Grand in 1831, Lycée Descartes in 1848, Lycée Louis-le-Grand...
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    heavier than any other car in the class. Parisian driver-constructor Louis Descartes brought his C289 back to the C2 class. This had been his first modern...
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    others in their class. Another amateur racer was Parisian PR executive Louis Descartes. He commissioned Jean-Paul Sauvée to design a C2 car, using the reliable...
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  • Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 03 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 A 177 Jacques Heuclin 3–5, 7, 9 Dominique Lacaud 3, 5, 7–9 Gérard Tremblay 3, 8 Louis Descartes 4–5, 7–9...
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  • Jean-Marie Alméras 2, 4–6, 8–9 Louis Descartes ALD C289 Ford Cosworth DFL 3.3 L V8 D 35 François Migault 1–8 Louis Descartes 1 Denis Morin 2–4 Gérard Tremblay...
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    philosopher best known for her correspondence with René Descartes. She was critical of Descartes' dualistic metaphysics and her work anticipated the metaphysical...
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  • Treatise on Man (category Works by René Descartes)
    du fœtus), the remarks of Louis La Forge and the translated preface from the Latin edition by Florent Schuyl. René Descartes begins to write the treaty...
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  • Jacques Isolle, « Un Disciple de Descartes : Louis de La Forge », 1971, XVII siècle n° 92, pp. 98–131 Clarke, Desmond. "Louis de La Forge". In Zalta, Edward...
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    Micangeli BMW M1 D 71 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 23 NC C2 93 Automobiles Louis Descartes Louis Descartes Jacques Heuclin ALD 01 A 63 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 24 DNF C2 80 Carma...
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  • The Descartes Prize was an annual award in science given by the European Union, named in honour of the French mathematician and philosopher, René Descartes...
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    Michel Maisonneuve Gr.C2 291 23rd 2nd 1991 Graff Racing Automobiles Louis Descartes 39 Spice SE89C-Cosworth Jean-Philippe Grand Xavier Lapeyre Michel Maisonneuve...
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    Margie Smith-Haas 4 Martin Birrane 5 Automobiles Louis Descartes ALD 01 BMW M88 3.5 L I6 A 93 Louis Descartes 4–5, 7 Jacques Heuclin 4–5, 7 Daniël Hubert 4...
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    the cars were often the fastest on the tracks. Gentleman-drivers Louis Descartes and Jacques Heuclin carried on working on their ALD. With the 02 version...
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    Mans over the past decade, however the tragic death of team principal Louis Descartes in a road-accident in December spelled the end for the small French...
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    956B. The older 956 would be run by young F1 driver Stefan Johansson, Jean-Louis Schlesser and wealthy Colombian flower-merchant Mauricio de Narvaez. Dieter...
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  • Lionel Robert Cougar C24S-Porsche C1 347 7th 7th 1991 Automobiles Louis Descartes Racing Organization Corse (ROC) Bernard Thuner ROC 002-Ford Cosworth...
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    Auch) was a French landscape painter. M.Philippe VERGNES, Histoire des soins dentaires en Armagnac - Etude de l'Université Paris V René Descartes v t e...
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    Citroën. It was fitted with one of the race-proven Simca-ROC engine. Louis Descartes and Hervé Bayard would be the drivers. The Porsche 935 remained the...
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