Louis Jean Nicolas, baron Abbé (French pronunciation: [lwi ʒɑ̃ nikɔlɑ abe]; 28 August 1764 – 9 April 1834) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars...
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(1919–2014), American photographer Kenshiro Abbe (1915–1985), Japanese martial artist Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé (1764–1834), French general Maurice L'Abbé...
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Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer...
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Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac, Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé, and Augustin Darricau. These troops held a line from Ainhoa to the mountain fortress of St-Jean-Pied-de-Port...
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at the cathedral of Sées. He went to Paris to study harmony with the Abbé Nicolas Roze, chorus master at the Saints-Innocents. Le Sueur was named to positions...
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Jacques Pierre Abbatucci (général de division) Jean-Charles Abbatucci (général de brigade) Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé (général de division) Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville...
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Jean-Louis de Lolme (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi də lɔlm]) or Delolme (1740 – 16 July 1806) was a Genevan and British political theorist and writer...
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (redirect from Abbé Sieyès)
1748 – 20 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (French: [sjejɛs]), was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, and political writer who was a...
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lieutenancy. This included the infantry divisions of Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac, Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé and Jean-Pierre Maransin. Honoré Charles Reille led the...
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administered Extreme Unction to the republican Abbé Grégoire despite the opposition of Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen, Archbishop of Paris. Among his many...
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writers who at the time were placed in the very first rank, such as Jean Chapelain, the abbé Charles Cotin, Philippe Quinault and Georges de Scudéry; he openly...
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Jean-Nicolas or Nicolas Bassenge (24 November 1758, in Liège – 16 July 1811) was a politician from the Principality of Liège. He was active in the Liège...
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instructors may have also had a good hand in shaping Louis-Auguste into the indecisive king that he became. Abbé Berthier, his instructor, taught him that timidity...
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The Abbé Jean-Louis de Cordemoy (1655–1714) was a French architectural historian, prior of St-Nicolas at La-Ferté-sous-Jouarre (Seine-et-Marne), and a...
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000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry. After sending the division of Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé to reinforce the garrison of Bayonne, raising its strength to 14...
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1767 – Louis-Jacques Pilon 1768 – Jean Guillaume Moitte 1769 – Jean Joseph Foucou 1770 – René Millot 1771 – Joseph Deschamps 1772 – François-Nicolas Delaistre...
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the infantry divisions of Generals of Division Jean Barthélemy Darmagnac, Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé, and Jean-Pierre Maransin. Darmagnac's 2nd Division counted...
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tutored by Nicolas-Hubert Mongault, the illegitimate son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Saint-Pouange, a cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister...
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variously called Charles-Nicolas Cochin le Jeune (the Younger), Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (the son), or Charles-Nicolas Cochin II. Cochin was born...
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Shortly after, Jean Faurye died, and his family reported the matter. The marriage certificate proved to be a forgery issued by Abbé Nail, who had appeared...
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Geography) by Pinkerton and Waldkenaer, he is best known for the maps for abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's Voyage du jeune Anacharsis (1788 and 1799) and for...
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included the divisions of Durutte and General of Brigade Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé and the 8th Hussars. Abbé was in acting command of Grenier's former division...
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dragged on for several years. The first priest of the separated parish was the Abbé Pem de Matignicourt from the Chalon-sur-Marne district in France. On March...
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Nicolas Beaujon (1718–1786) was a wealthy French banker at the court of King Louis XV. The portrait of Nicolas Beaujon seen here was painted by Élisabeth...
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was named under-governor, and Jean-François Boyer, formerly bishop of Mirepoix, was named preceptor. From an early age Louis took a great interest in the...
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undertaken construction of the Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes. In 1841 he built the tomb of the Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée in Saint-Roch, Paris....
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Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (French: [ʃɑ̃fɔʁ]; 6 April 1741 – 13 April 1794)...
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On the opposite side of the Ebro, five battalions under General Louis Jean Nicolas Abbé blocked the bridge through which Tortosa communicated with Valencia...
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ambitious and unsatisfied; as a musketeer, he yearns to become an abbé; but as an abbé, he wishes for the life of the soldier. In The Three Musketeers,...
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Jean de La Bruyère (UK: /ˌlæ bruːˈjɛər/, UK: /ˌlɑː bruːˈjɛər, ˌlɑː briːˈɛər/, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la bʁɥijɛʁ]; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French...
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