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    defensive Thiers wall around Paris, including fortifications, a dry moat, a Rue Militaire and a large berm. In 1859, the military engineering department...
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    Sainte-Marie La Madeleine, a girls' school from primary pupils on rue de Monceau and rue de Tocqueville, the school became mixed. Today, it consists of a college...
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    The Rue de Poitiers Committee (French: Comité de la rue de Poitiers), best known as the Party of Order (French: Parti de l'Ordre), was a political group...
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    debating society founded in 1832. In 1876, it became the Conférence Molé-Tocqueville. Its purpose was to debate legislation, administration, political economy...
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    Constable. p. 71. "Portraits / His friends: Francisque de Corcelle". Alexis de Tocqueville 1805. 15 October 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2016. Unger...
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    Malesherbes was also remembered with reverence by his great-grandson Alexis de Tocqueville; the historian Roger Williams has pointed to this connection as a "legacy...
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    Considérations sur le principe démocratique, to correct what he saw as Alexis de Tocqueville's superficial understanding of American democracy. From 1848 to 1849...
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    part in the far-right demonstrations in Paris, with two groups, one on the rue de Bourgogne, the other near the Petit Palais. They were to converge on the...
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  • Montevideo 16th arrondissement  Mauritius 127, rue de Tocqueville 17th arrondissement  Mexico 9, rue de Longchamp 16th arrondissement  Moldova 95, Boulevard...
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    Russian exiles, but her guests, who included Victor Cousin and Alexis de Tocqueville, were generally drawn from various sectors of French literary, political...
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    Honoré de Balzac to write accounts of other "half-European" parts of Europe, like southern Italy and Russia. In the late 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy...
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    siècle (Paris (21 rue Surcouf, 75007) : P. de Villepin, 1986) 1987: Villepin, Patrick de, "Maintenir" : histoire de la famille Galouzeau de Villepin (1397–1987)...
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    officially named after a couple. The pair lived close to the square at 42 rue Bonaparte. Prix Goncourt, 1954 Jerusalem Prize, 1975 Austrian State Prize...
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    2016. Leur, Thierry Van de. Parisis Code – tome 2 – Le Code secret des rues de Paris. Lulu.com. ISBN 979-1-09-128903-0. Archived from the original on...
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    2004, the junction of the Rues Béranger, Charlot, de Turenne, and de Franche-Comté in Paris was proclaimed the Place Olympe de Gouges. The square was inaugurated...
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    François de La Rocque, who took over in 1930, the Croix-de-Feu took its independence from François Coty and left the building of Le Figaro for rue de Milan...
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    [ʒak pjɛʁ bʁiso], 15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), also known as Brissot de Warville was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading...
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    histoire de la rue, du club, de la famine: composée d'après des documents inédits, particulièrement les rapports de police et les registres du Comité de salut...
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    Peintres Orientalistes Français de Tocqueville, A., Georges Gasté: Traquer le soleil dans l’ombre, p. 25. de Tocqueville, A., "Beyond Orientalism," The...
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    the liberal thought of the early 19th century. The Lycée Condorcet in the rue du Havre, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is named in his honour, as...
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    Military College Saint-Jean. A wing of the Louvre Museum, Paris, France Rue de Richelieu, a Parisian street named in the cardinal's honor, and places located...
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    ample correspondence, much of it published only since 2000. Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner's...
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    of the “Jacobins” in the Rue Saint-Honoré, adjacent to the seat of the Assembly. They changed their name to Société des amis de la Constitution in late...
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    Cannes (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Fydd. Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), a French Romanticism writer. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist & philosopher...
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  • Tocqueville-les-Murs (French pronunciation: [tɔkvil le myʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France....
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    apartment at 120 rue du Bac, Paris, leaving his house only to pay visits to Juliette Récamier in Abbaye-aux-Bois. His final work, Vie de Rancé, was written...
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    or studied there, including Victor Hugo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tocqueville, and Honoré de Balzac. The faculty of law is also mentioned in classical French...
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    Director-General of Finance under King Louis XVI of France and she hosted in Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin one of the most popular salons of Paris. Mme Necker...
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    in the Avenue Foch or the Rue des Saussaies she would be politely received and sent away with comforting words" [No. 11 Rue des Saussaies was the headquarters...
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    L'Imprimerie d'Everat), 2: pp. 494-95. Bulletin de la Société de géographie 5 (1826): 595-96. de Tocqueville, Alexis. (1968). Journeys to England and Ireland...
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