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    The Musée Cognacq-Jay (English: Cognacq-Jay Museum) is a museum located in the Hôtel Donon in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The museum's collection...
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    press, education and assembly. Ninh was summoned before the governor, Maurice Cognacq, who told him: This country has no need for intellectuals. This country...
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  • Unipectine France that was founded in Paris on 24 February 1933 at Rue Cognacq-Jay. The business was used as a cover company, to distribute monies from...
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  • Maurice Cognacq, Governor Acting to 12 April 1922 24 May 1924 to 17 December 1924 Auguste Eugène Ludovic Tholance, Acting Governor Acting for Cognacq...
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  • Sciences in 1969 Winner of the Grand Prix Cognacq-Jay of the French Academy of sciences with Anatole Abragam and Maurice Chapelier in 1970 Winner of the Holweck...
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    western end of the Île de la Cité. In 1163, during the reign of Louis VII, Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, undertook the construction of the Notre Dame...
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    century, many painters including Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Maurice Utrillo were living there, some at the nearby Le Bateau-Lavoir. The Musée...
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    down to their widows and children by the caretaker of the château, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles. The Jacobite colony at Saint-Germain...
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    Godoy, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Jean-François Lyotard, Nestor Makhno, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Moulin, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jean-Baptiste Say, Emmanuel...
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    York, made in 1924 by the Catalan artist José Maria Sert for its owner Maurice de Wendel, and his wife Misia, for their balls and entertainments. Wendel...
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    since been modified twice, and eventually moved in 1977 to the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, where it is still in use today. The organ was inaugurated...
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    Toulouse-Lautrec's studio was here. Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Maurice Neumont also lived here, as did André Breton, and in 1928 Josephine Baker...
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    by Maurice Fleuret; it was celebrated in Paris in 1982. Music Day later became celebrated in 120 countries around the world. In October 1981, Maurice Fleuret...
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    Marmottan Monet Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Musée Nissim de Camondo Musée Cognacq-Jay Musée Carnavalet Musée Condé in Chantilly Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres...
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    Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac...
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  • Paris Maison de Balzac Musée Bourdelle Musée de la Cinémathèque Musée Cognacq-Jay Musée Grévin Musée Guimet Maison de Victor Hugo Musée Jacquemart-André...
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    Despotism". Inside the monument, a permanent exhibition, conceived by artist Maurice Benayoun and architect Christophe Girault, opened in February 2007. Beneath...
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    corner, to serve as the headquarters of the chief of staff. The generals Maurice Gamelin and then Maxime Weygand directed the defense of France from there...
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    such as Thomas Edison. The design of the Eiffel Tower is attributed to Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two senior engineers working for the Compagnie...
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    Del Ruth, with Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, and Ann Sothern 1935: Folies Bergère de Paris directed by Marcel Achard with Maurice Chevalier, Natalie...
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    church bells. The construction of the cathedral began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully and was largely completed by 1260, though it was modified in succeeding...
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    Paris Maison de Balzac Musée Bourdelle Musée de la Cinémathèque Musée Cognacq-Jay Musée Grévin Musée Guimet Maison de Victor Hugo Musée Jacquemart-André...
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  • garden of Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French statesman and writer Musée Cognacq-Jay 3rd Art (VP) 18th-century French fine and decorative art Musée Curie...
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    Paris Maison de Balzac Musée Bourdelle Musée de la Cinémathèque Musée Cognacq-Jay Musée Grévin Musée Guimet Maison de Victor Hugo Musée Jacquemart-André...
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    As a home its residents included: Suzanne Valadon, her home and studio Maurice Utrillo, Valadon's son, painter André Utter, Valadon's husband, painter...
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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, and others. The gallery is on the bank of the Seine in the old...
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    the best-known figures of the first half of the 19th century – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Prince of Bénévent and Deputy Great Elector. Four times...
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    23 February 1942: Boris Vildé, Anatole Lewitsky, Pierre Walter, Léon-Maurice Nordmann, Georges Ithier, Jules Andrieu, and René Sénéchal; Georges Paulin...
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    du mystère, by Hélène Bertaux The Seine and its tributaries by Désiré-Maurice Ferrary Coat of Arms of Paris by Émile Peynot Quatre saisons by Louis Convers...
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    to manage the project: Madame Montagu, née L. D. de Noailles, President Maurice de Montmorency Mr. Aimard de Nicolaï Madame Rebours, née Barville Madame...
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