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    Félix François Faure (French pronunciation: [feliks fʁɑ̃swa fɔʁ] ; 30 January 1841 – 16 February 1899) was the president of France from 1895 until his...
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    Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers...
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    by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional...
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    Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1893. It was originally an orchestral piece, written for a theatrical production that was abandoned. In 1898 Fauré arranged...
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    Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead...
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    incomplete works and enlisted the help of his pupil Charles Koechlin, who orchestrated the music. Fauré later constructed a four-movement suite from the...
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    Dolly Suite, Op. 56, is a collection of pieces for piano duet by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of six short pieces written or revised between 1893 and 1896...
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    Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served...
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    following is a complete list of the compositions by the French composer Gabriel Fauré. Works are listed both by genre and by opus number. Fugue à trois parties...
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    affairs with important men. She was present at the death of President Félix Faure, who was rumoured to have died after having a seizure while allegedly having...
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    student of Gabriel Fauré, along with Maurice Ravel and Jean Roger-Ducasse. Fauré had a great influence on Koechlin, who wrote the first Fauré biography (1927)...
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  • The Faure Electric Accumulator Company (FEAC) was a company founded in 1881 in London to supply electric batteries suitable for lighting and other purposes...
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    Construction. 14 (2): 253–264. doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2004.07.002. Dapogny, Charles; Faure, Alexis; Michailidis, Georgios; Allaire, Grégoire; Couvelas, Agnes;...
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    community in the area, and placed Father Charles Faure in charge of the project. On 25 March 1865, Father Faure purchased a circular building off Leicester...
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  • the Gallican Congregation, in the 16th century, by a holy man called Charles Faure; and had, at the outbreak of the Revolution, no fewer than one hundred...
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    the reforms required by the Council of Trent. He brought from Senlis Charles Faure (d. 1644), who had already restored the canonical rule in the ancient...
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    Félix Faure (French pronunciation: [feliks fɔʁ] ) is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro in the 15th arrondissement. It is named after the nearby avenue...
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    d'Indy's inflexibility led a new generation of composers, led by Fauré's pupils Ravel and Charles Koechlin, to break away and found a new group, Société Musicale...
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    The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works. His compositions...
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    The Shylock Suite, Op. 57 is a six-movement work by Gabriel Fauré, first performed in 1890. In addition to four purely orchestral movements it includes...
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    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against...
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    mélodies for solo voice and piano, by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of "Après un rêve" (Op. 7, No. 1), one of Faure's most popular vocal pieces, "Hymne" (Op. 7...
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  • competitions. Francis was brother of Benoît Faure and Eugène Faure. On July 7, 1933, Faure rode a Vélocar developed by Charles Mochet in the Vélodrome d'Hiver in...
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  • Fauré Le Page (French pronunciation: [fɔ.ʁe lə‿paʒ]) is a French firearms manufacturer (arquebusier and fourbisseur) founded in Paris in 1716 by Louis...
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    studying composition with Fauré, and taking private lessons in counterpoint with André Gedalge. Both these teachers, particularly Fauré, regarded him highly...
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    Émile Loubet (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint-Charles)
    February 1899 he was chosen president of the republic in succession to Félix Faure by 483 votes as against 279 recorded by Jules Méline, his only serious competitor...
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    Amédée Faure or Victor-Amédée Faure (1801–1878) was a French painter and portraitist. His portrait subjects include the brothers Louis-Charles, Count...
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    African history", having been president for 38 years. In 2005, his son Faure Gnassingbé was elected president. Togo is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation...
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    also a strand of classical restraint and elegance that influenced Gabriel Fauré. Claude Debussy wrote that Gounod represented the essential French sensibility...
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  • La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, by Gabriel Fauré, is a song cycle of nine mélodies for voice and piano. He composed it during 1892–94; in 1898 he created a...
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