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    Soleil Royal (Royal Sun) was a French 104-gun ship of the line, flagship of Admiral Tourville. She was built in Brest between 1668 and 1670 by engineer...
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  • Régime have borne the name Soleil Royal ("Royal Sun"), honouring the personal emblem of Louis XIV: French ship Soleil Royal (1669), present at the Battle...
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  • 425". The London Gazette. 9 December 1669. p. 1. "French First Rate ship of the line 'Le Soleil Royal' (1669)". Threedecks. Retrieved 23 August 2019...
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    the warship Soleil Royal (1669), named for the King. In addition to interior decoration, he designed the costumes and scenery for the royal theaters, including...
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    The Royal Louis was a ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was constructed at Toulon between 1666 and 1669 under the direction of Rodolphe Gédéon...
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    the Du Roy-Soleil à la Révolution, l'orgue de la Chapelle royale de Versailles / From the Sun King to the Revolution, the organ of the Royal Chapel of...
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    Soleil Royal, launched in 1669, flagship at the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690, burnt in 1692 following the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue. Soleil Royal...
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    Montespan Anne de Rohan-Chabot (1648–1709), princess of Soubise, on-and-off in 1669–1675 Claude de Vin des Œillets (c. 1637 – 1687) in 1670–1676 Diane-Gabrielle...
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    Louis XIV (redirect from Le Roi Soleil)
    also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign...
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    in 1690 during the Nine Years' War. He flew his personal flag on the Soleil Royal, where it would stay until the battles of Barfleur and La Hougue in 1692...
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  • lightning"): Foudroyant (1669), a 70-gun ship of the line Foudroyant (1691), an 82-gun ship of the line Foudroyant, renamed Soleil-Royal in 1693 Foudroyant (1693)...
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    illustration of gigantomastia dates to 1669. In July of that year the Plymouth physician William Durston wrote to the Royal Society, reporting the case of a...
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  • Francis (2024). Le cinquième soleil: une autre histoire des Aztèques. Paris: Albin Michel. p. 94. ISBN 978-2-226-46029-5. "Royal Newlywed Lord Ivar Mountbatten...
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    reasonable degree of accuracy in an arc measurement survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge. Guided by...
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    June 1671 and broken up 1688 Soleil Royal 106, later 110 guns (designed and built by Laurent Hubac, launched 13 December 1669 at Brest) – burnt by the English...
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    home to one of the world's largest cultural enterprises, the Cirque du Soleil. Montreal is also a global hub for artificial intelligence research with...
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    Haddock.: 14–16  Destruction of 15 French ships of the line, including Soleil Royal, Admirable and Triomphant, in 1692, after the Battle of La Hougue.: 16–18 ...
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    ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates)....
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    Classical & Operatic Marie Deina 28136 Romeo et Juliette – Ah, leve toi soleil Classical & Operatic Gaston Du Bois 28137 Tosca - Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amour...
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    had their last child in August 1669, a daughter who was baptized Anne Marie at the private chapel of the Palais-Royal on 8 April 1670 by Philippe's first...
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    ISBN 978-2-02-009753-6. Zysberg, André (2007). Marseille au temps du Roi-Soleil, la ville, les galères, l'arsenal [Marseille at the time of the Sun King:...
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    Giovanni Domenico Cassini (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    on 25 February 1669. Cassini's determinations of the rotational periods of Jupiter and Mars in 1665–1667 enhanced his fame, and in 1669, with the reluctant...
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    2008. Hazlehurst 1980, pp. 62–64. Comme le soleil est le devise du Roi, et que les poëtes confondent le soleil et Apollon, il n'y a rien dans cette superbe...
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  • ( French Navy) was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Soleil ( French Navy) was expended in battle. 18 September — Action of 18 September...
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    Satires 7 and 9. Boursault replied to Boileau in his Satire des satires (1669), but was afterwards reconciled to him, when Boileau on his side erased his...
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    OCLC 894499177. "Première détermination de la distance de la Terre au Soleil | Les 350 ans de l'Observatoire de Paris". 350ans.obspm.fr (in French)....
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    Palace (1664) Grand Canal of Gardens of Versailles (1668–1669) Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1669–1673) Parc de Sceaux (1670) Château de Dampierre (1673–1783)...
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  • leader of the West End Gang, assassinated on November 13. 1984 – Cirque du Soleil founded. 1984 – Île de la Visitation opens as a park and historic site....
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    shall no longer be here." ("Vous ne me trouverez pas vivant au lever du soleil.") — Nostradamus, French seer (2 July 1566), correctly predicting his death...
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    permanently. The city's name is derived from Le Soleil d'Orient, the first ship constructed at the site, in 1669. Workers gave the site the name of the ship...
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