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    Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French...
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    Eddi-Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles on television sitcoms, including Vivian...
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    monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John (Norwegian: Karl III Johan) and before he became royalty in Sweden, his name...
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  • the Bank of England, to design new bank notes carrying King Charles III's portrait. De La Rue sells high-security fully finished banknotes, polymer substrate...
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    Haussmann's renovation of Paris (category Napoleon III)
    Revolution, and begun by Napoléon I; Napoléon III was determined to complete it. Completion of the rue de Rivoli was given an even higher priority, because...
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    the Haussmannian redesign of Paris under Napoleon III. The building at No. 2, on the corner of the Rue du Quatre-Septembre, was built between 1868 and 1873...
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    Lorraine—Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myre. The church is located on No. 47 rue Charles-III. The church is of a Renaissance style, breaking away from the neogothic...
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    block in Paris, surrounded by rue de Richelieu (west), rue des Petits-Champs (south), rue Vivienne [fr] (east), and rue Colbert [fr] (north). There are...
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    Eva Maria LaRue (/ləˈruː/; born December 27, 1966) is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles as Maria Santos on All My Children and...
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    Bourbon King Charles X continued the Rue de Rivoli eastwards from the Louvre, as did King Louis-Philippe. Finally, Emperor Napoleon III extended it into...
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    rue Vieille du Temple, herodote.net Archived 11 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine R.C. Famiglietti, Royal Intrigue: Crisis at the Court of Charles...
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    and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Charles Garnier was born Jean-Louis Charles Garnier on 6 November 1825 in Paris, on the Rue Mouffetard, in the present-day...
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    Charles I (German: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria, Hungarian: Károly Ferenc József Lajos Hubert György Ottó Mária; 17 August 1887 – 1...
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    de la rue Saint-Jacques was a Dominican monastery on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. Its complex was between what are now rue Soufflot and rue Cujas...
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    forced Charles to remain in Navarre. Instead he sent off his eldest son to Normandy, with a number of officials, including his chamberlain Jacques de Rue, who...
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    Napoleon III, was born at number 15 on 20 April 1808.[citation needed] After the Bourbon Restoration, the street's name was changed back to Rue d'Artois...
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    street surrounding the Place de l'Étoile was named Rue de Presbourg (south of the Axe historique) and Rue de Tilsitt (north of the Axe historique), after...
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    Henry III, who had succeeded Charles IX in 1574. Given that Henry of Navarre was the next senior agnatic descendant of King Louis IX, King Henry III had...
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    Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzog Ludwig III von Hessen und bei Rhein; 9 June 1806, Darmstadt – 13 June 1877, Seeheim) was...
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    the north end, near the Rue de Rivoli, is the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume. It was built under Emperor Napoleon III as the imperial tennis court...
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  • Nouvelles Catholiques Visitandines de la rue du Bac Bénédictines de Saint-Louis (Rouen) [fr] Marie-Agnès Férault, Charles Chamois, architecte parisien du XVIIe...
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    Alexander III (Russian: Александр III Александрович Романов, romanized: Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich Romanov; 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) was Emperor...
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    The Pont Alexandre III (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ tʁwa]) is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées...
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    of the Crown of Siam, in Diamonds  Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, with Collar, 15 April 1888 Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 7...
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    Frederick III (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl; 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888), or Friedrich III, was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days...
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  • Charles III of Alençon (1337 – 5 July 1375) was a French nobleman of the Capetian House of Valois. He was count of Alençon and Perche from 1346 until...
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    of Artois, Henri's older sister: Louise married her distant relative Charles III of Parma, who came from the Spanish collateral branch of Bourbon-Parma...
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    found Cosette's address. She leads him to Valjean and Cosette's house on Rue Plumet, and Marius watches the house for a few days. He and Cosette then...
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    has been housed in the deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs on the Rue Réaumur [fr] in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Today the museum, which...
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    ground, filling the land between the present rue Saint-Denis, rue de la Ferronnerie, rue de la Lingerie and the rue Berger, had become the city's principal...
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