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    Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (Charles XII) (1931–1936) Alfonso XIII of Spain (Alphonse I) (1936–1941) (did not claim the Throne of France) Jaime, Duke...
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    building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various...
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    Sully, Henri IV's great minister No. 8: poet Théophile Gautier and writer Alphonse Daudet No. 9 (Hôtel de Chaulnes): seat of l'Académie d'Architecture, currently...
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    the presence of King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. In 1666, Pierre-Paul Riquet started the construction of the Canal du Midi which links Toulouse...
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    Historia de España/ 3, Al-Andalus: musulmanes y cristianos (siglos VIII - XIII), capítulo 4: los nuevos musulmanes (in Spanish). Planeta. p. 591. ISBN 9788432083730...
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    explorer Alphonse de Pontevez, commanding the frigate Le Lys, claims an Indian Ocean atoll for France and names it after himself as the Alphonse Atoll....
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    03.08 – 1896.06.22) Giovanni Nepomuceno Glavina (1896.12.03 – 1899.11) Alphonse-Martin Larue (1899.12.14 – 1903.05.01) Theodor Kohn (1904.06.10 – 1915...
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    artists such as Louis Tiffany. It appeared in graphic arts in the posters of Alphonse Mucha, and the glassware of René Lalique and Émile Gallé. From Britain...
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    bastides of southern France. Its foundation dates from 1144 when Count Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse, granted it a liberal charter. The inhabitants were...
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    Marie de' Medici, the widow of Henry IV and the regent for the King Louis XIII, decided to build a palace in imitation of the Pitti Palace in her native...
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    1902 when it entered the final of the Campeonato de Copa de S.M. Alfonso XIII. Real Madrid was one of the founding members of La Liga in 1929, and is one...
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    Pierre Bonnard, Georges de Feure, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Paul Gavarni and Alphonse Mucha. Paris and its close suburbs are home to numerous newspapers, magazines...
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    of San Jaime (Spanish: Alfonso Carlos Fernando José Juan Pío; French: Alphonse Charles Ferdinand Joseph Jean Pieux; 12 September 1849 in London – 29 September...
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    the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Firire, Girard Alphonse (27 August 1999). "Haiti And Its Diaspora: New Historical, Cultural And...
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    Daguerreotype by Alphonse Louis Poitevin, 1842...
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    The house was founded by Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger son of Louis XIII and younger brother of Louis XIV, the "Sun King". From 1709 until the French...
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    lost its independence when the two younger brothers of King Louis IX, Alphonse of Poitiers and Charles of Anjou (Charles I of Naples) took back control...
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    also includes a colourful variety of posters from the epoch created by Alphonse Mucha and other artists, including posters for the Chat Noir and Moulin...
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    Kingdom of Kongo (complete list) – Henrique III, King (1842–1857) Álvaro XIII, King (1857–1859) Peter V, King (1859–1891) vassal to Portugal: 1888–1914...
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  • Spain KG 1881 Royalty King Alfonso XIII Spain GCVO 1897 Royalty King Alfonso XIII Spain KG 1902 Royalty King Alfonso XIII Spain RVC 1905 Royalty King Juan...
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    Gort) to the command of the BEF on 3 September, subordinate to General Alphonse Georges, the French commander of the North-eastern Theatre of Operations...
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    governor of the Louisiana Territory for the next 20 years. His brother Alphonse de Tonty (Alfonso de Tonti), with French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac...
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    Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 1891: Pope Leo XIII issues the papal encyclical Rerum novarum, the first major document informing...
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    businessman, statesman Jérémie-Louis Décarie (1870–1927), politician Alphonse Desjardins (1854–1920), founder of the Desjardins financial coops Bernard...
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    chronological order: In 1865 Ryan joined James Foster and Brockville contractor Alphonse Brooks as subcontractors on the Pictou branch of the Nova Scotia Railway...
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  • French Baroque, Classicism, (1629–1740) The church was begun by King Louis XIII, to celebrate his victories over the Protestants at La Rochelle in the French...
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    1888–1961, Bruxelles, editions Racine, 2002 (preface by Pierre Harmel), p. 18. Alphonse Wauters, Histoire des environs de Bruxelles, book 10 A, re-edited in 1973...
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    machines with rotors made of tin sheets. French engineer and inventor Alphonse Pénaud would later develop coaxial rotor model helicopter toys in 1870...
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  • August 15, 1963: Alphonse Massamba-Débat overthrew Fulbert Youlou. June 27-July 1966: Marien Ngouabi attempted to overthrow Alphonse Massamba-Debat. September...
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    enterprise. In 1838 Pallu et Compagnie, a société en commandite headed by Alphonse Pallu, took over the mining concession and the foundry. At that time four...
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