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    Languedoc was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy and flagship of Admiral d'Estaing. She was offered to King Louis XV by the Languedoc, as part...
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  • aviator Paul Languedoc, rock music sound engineer and guitar maker French ship Languedoc (1766), a naval ship-of-the-line French battleship Languedoc, an uncompleted...
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  • French Navy have been named Languedoc: French ship Languedoc (1766), a Saint-Esprit-class ship of the line launched in 1766, renamed Anti-fédéraliste and...
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    Languedoc in Rivière-Ojima, Quebec, Canada, was named after the regiment. Languedoc New France Military of New France French ship ''Languedoc'' (1766)...
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  • frigate 'La Dédaigneuse' (1766)". Threedecks. Retrieved 6 September 2021. "French Third Rate ship of the line 'Le Languedoc' (1766)". Threedecks. Retrieved...
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    Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (category 1766 births)
    Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, comte de Las Cases (21 June 1766 – 15 May 1842) was a French atlas-maker and author, famed for an admiring book about...
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  • Victoire (1757), a 40-gun frigate. Victoire (1770), a 74-gun ship of the line. Languedoc (1766), a 80-gun ship of the line, bore the name Victoire late in her career...
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    the navy at 13, he was a volunteer on the ship-of-the-line Protecteur in 1766, he served in several campaigns in the Levant. Becoming a Garde de la marine...
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    on 26 january 1795 Languedoc, renamed Anti-fédéraliste and Victoire. Builder: Toulon Ordered: 9 December 1761 Launched: 15 May 1766 Fate: Broken up in...
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    Jean Astruc (category 1766 deaths)
    Jean Astruc (19 March 1684, in Sauve, France – 5 May 1766, in Paris) was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first...
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    1750 to 1752. John Ligonier was born Jean-Louis de Ligonnier in Castres, Languedoc, the second son of Louis de Ligonnier, sieur de Montcuquet, and Louise...
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    Brittany and Languedoc refused. The royal government closed down the Parlement of Brittany, ordered the members of the Parlement of Languedoc to return to...
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    p. 555. Pierre David, "La Pologne dans l’obituaire de Saint-Gilles en Languedoc au XII e sičcle", Revue des Études Slaves, 19 (1939). Danuta Borawska...
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    from 26 November, the syndic Étienne Lafont affirmed to the intendant of Languedoc: "We no longer hear of anything relating to the beast". But quickly, rumours...
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  • Viviers and Valence, and viguier of Bagnols and Pont-Saint-Esprit in Languedoc, acquired the estate of Luynes in the 16th century. The grandfather of...
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    In the pays d'état ("provinces with provincial estates"), Brittany, Languedoc, Burgundy, Auvergne, Béarn, Dauphiné, Provence and portions of Gascony...
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    a cultured spinster, Claire Françoise du Barry, who was brought from Languedoc to instruct her in etiquette. Later on, she also befriended the Maréchale...
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    for eating and baking with sweet-tart flavor. Eating, cooking Gradirose Languedoc-Roussillon, France 2004 Created by Pépinières Grard. Early dessert apple...
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  • Thumbnail for French ship Actif (1752)
    companies of the régiment de Languedoc. On 11 September 1759 she fought at the Battle of Pondicherry. She left the fleet in 1766. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005)...
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    Rouvray-Saint-Florentin 1766 Guéau Reynel Champagne 52 Reynel 1560 Croÿ (de) Rians Provence 83 Rians 1657 Fabri (de) Extinct Ribaute Languedoc 30 Ribaute-les-Tavernes...
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    Street, Hereford in 1717 into a family with French Huguenot roots in Languedoc, Southern France. His grandfather, David Garric, was in Bordeaux in 1685...
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    only the elder survives. Notable members include Étienne de Perier (1686-1766), colonial governor of French Louisiana, grand-croix of Saint Louis and lieutenant...
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    before settling in 1820 at the Château de Restinclières, in the région of Languedoc-Roussillon. Their new house was large, with extensive grounds, and Bentham...
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    turmoil of the Hundred Years' War, King Charles VII of France granted Languedoc its own parlement by establishing the Parlement of Toulouse, the first...
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    donation from the Chamber of Commerce of Marseille, she was launched in 1766 as the Marseillois. She took part in the naval operations in the American...
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    sandstone paving stones in geometric patterns, and the coping was made of Languedoc marble by Louis-François Trouard. The interior was richly decorated, despite...
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    National Assembly: The regional sub-dialect spoken in Aveyron is a form of Languedoc Occitan called Rouergat. Faced with the risk of disappearance of the language...
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    higher water levels, they proved to be insufficient in 1766 when a severe storm in the Languedoc area caused the canal to burst her banks near Capestang...
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    in Castelnaudary, Languedoc. He entered the Royal French army as a second lieutenant in the engineering school of Mézières in 1766. At the time of the...
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  • Montpellier [fr] established. 1755 - Place de la Comédie first mentioned. 1766 - Birth of François-Xavier Fabre, painter. 1789 - Population: 29,500. 1790...
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