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  • from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other monarchies. Initially confined to ...
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  • kingdoms of Europe, threatened by the revolution in France and seeking to protect their fellow king, Louis XVI, threatened the revolutionary French government ...
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  • monarchy in the minds of the commoners of Paris. France was already in turmoil over the ongoing financial struggles of the country and the back and forth ...
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  • Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres from all around the world. It is one of "Big Five ...
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  • of the Estates of the Realm in the kingdom of France. This was a little used institution that met very infrequently, but the king wanted to implement ...
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  • UK already had the Entente Cordiale with France since 1904, while France ... an additional secret agreement with France effectively nullifying her ...
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  • by Pope Eugene III. The initial response to the new crusade bull was poor, and it had to be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France ...
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  • Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France ... she may have been a member of the court in France herself. It is not known ...
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  • on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants ... cause following his coronation as King of France. He had converted to Catholicism ...
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  • Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world ... The Agence France-Presse (AFP) was founded in 1835 by a Parisian translator ...
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  • century, de Vitry specifically explained the new notational examples in his ... prominent in the courts of Charles IV of France, Philippe VI of France and ...
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  • Edward Balliol and he was taken to France for safety, remaining there ... of Edward II of England and Isabella of France. This was an attempt to forge ...
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  • 3, 1368 – October 21, 1422) was King of France (1380–1422) and a member ... Joan of Arc that she determined to restore France's independence and defeat ...
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  • known as Joan the Lame, Queen consort of France, and first wife of Philip ... Duke of Burgundy, and princess Agnes of France. Her mother was the youngest ...
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  • of Cnidaria with over 6,000 species (France 2004). They are found worldwide ... crustaceans that serve as food for people (France 2004). Anthozoans are used ...
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  • a balance of power and preventing France in particular from uniting ... the representatives of Louis XIV of France and Philip V of Spain on ...
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  • He was at first regarded as the savior of France, but his conduct at the meeting ... In October 1776, Necker was made Finance Minister of France in spite ...
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  • in opposition to the then dominant view in France, that of Emile Durkheim. ... Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was born in Paris, France on April 10, 1857. He ...
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  • Egypt, too, developed a relationship with France and with French culture that ... When Napoleon left France for Egypt in July 1798, he did not only ...
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  • :France had lost the Alsace-Lorraine region to Germany following the ... France had suffered very heavy casualties during the war (some 1.24 ...
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  • a large pedestrian square in Nancy, Lorraine, France. Built between the Old Town in the north and the New Town in the south ...
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  • to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop ... Located in central France along the Yèvre River, Bourges is the capital ...
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  • most dominant artists and art theorists of France during the seventeenth century ... employed by several political figures in France. These included Chancellor ...
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  • France was a socialist who supported liberal causes. He was a signatory ... The son of a bookseller, France, a bibliophile, [https://web.archive ...
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  • departement of Meuse) France. He first trained as a military ... before his death, he was invited back to France by Napoleon Bonaparte and ...
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  • Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres from all around the world. It is one of the "Big ...
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  • In 1669, King Louis XIV of France, anxious to obtain Cassini's ... In 1673, he became a French citizen. While in France, Cassini also ...
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  • that eventually became standard throughout France. A strong proponent of reading ... venture led to the founding, in 1680, of a new order, the Institute of the ...
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  • of birth was no protection, to inform new notions about social and political ... army which was then preparing to leave for France. He was present at the Battle ...
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  • who conducted excavations in Egypt’s New Kingdom capital of Tanis, ... Pierre Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône in France. He studied ...
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  • Pierre de Coubertin was born in Paris, France, on January 1, 1863 ... part of the general educational strategy for France. Coubertin was ...
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  • was set in the context of post-Revolution France, and the struggle between ... Denis-Auguste Affre was born at Saint Rome-de-Tam in France into a ...
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  • are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the George Eastman House ... After Atget's death, she arranged for New York's Museum of Modern ...
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  • * Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France ... |Mayotte (overseas territory of France)||Mamoudzou |- |Morocco||Rabat ...
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  • in the defense of the capital of New France, the fortified Quebec City ... Paris that eventually conceded most of New France to the British Empire. ...
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  • a claim such as "The present King of France is bald" into a conjunction ... So the sentence, "The present king of France is bald," is meaningful ...
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  • norm) is a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean ... famous for fine wine as other regions of France, its official status is now ...
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  • 1777, before even leaving Martinique for France. In service to their aunt ... of Joséphine. In June 1795, thanks to a new law, she was allowed to recover ...
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  • in both World War I and World War II. New materials developed by the ... . They were a distinguished family in France with connections to Louis ...
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  • and economic reforms intended to transform France. In 1776, Turgot ... a proposed Bourbon Constitution for the new France. He advocated women's ...
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  • Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ... Ampere explored the new field of electromagnetism he helped establish ...
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  • the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized ... who served as the Grand Provost of France; his mother, Susanne de La ...
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  • The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is the National Library ... coins, and others. All works published in France are deposited to the Library ...
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  • Traetta's operas first began to move in new directions. ... headlong into some support from France. In Parma in 1759, he found ...
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  • of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was designed and completed ... the traditional gardens of 17th century France and was meant to emulate ...
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  • The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during ... the affair, the "greatest disgrace to France which could take place." ...
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  • 14, 2006. At the outset, de Gaulle's France was regarded as possessing press of the period. According to some, The New York Times, the Times or Frankfurter ...
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  • the main interest in Fanon was "the new man" and "black ... After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops ...
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  • Louis Havas and later known as Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Bernhard ... News Agencies: From Pigeon to Internet (New Dawn Press, 2007, ISBN 1932705678 ...
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  • James I (1603–25). King Louis XIV of France (1643–1715), though Catholic ... *The New Testament in which the first obedience is to God and no earthly ...
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  • The César Award is the national film award of France. The awards ... The César Award is considered the highest film honor in France, the ...
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  • and thus obliged to send his findings to France for display in the Louvre ... François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer ...
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  • his father, A.E. Becquerel, who invented a new method for spectroscopic analysis ... Becquerel's investigations were conducted during a period of ...
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  • Orientaux division of National Library of France. The purpose of Jikji ... and Daljam helped in the publication of a new edition of Jikji using movable ...
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  • Born Edith Newbold Jones, to a wealthy New York family often associated ... The novel, a deeply ironical critique of New York upper-class society, ...
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  • In May and June 1789, he had written La France libre, which his publisher ... publication, Histoire des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, which ceased ...
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  • In the New World, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was supplied ... contaminated. One notable exception was the New River, a manmade waterway ...
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  • ===Virtual Museum of New France=== [http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/ The Virtual Museum of New France ...
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  • In 1815, Cauchy won the Grand Prix of the Institute of France for ... , and Mathematical Physics (for the Collège de France). ...
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  • developments then was the institute of a new cult of the "goddess ... Their armies were pressing on the border of France. Foreign powers ...
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  • dynamics, while at the same time it did open new avenues of understanding human ... born on May 7, 1841, in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France as the son of a civil servant ...
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  • around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. ... of the bloodiest in World War I. In both France and Germany, it has come ...
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  • #039; School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France. There she learned to fly ... 1922, at Glenn Curtiss Field in Garden City, New York. Her performance at the ...
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  • 1470 to 1471, and controversial King of France from 1422 to 1453. Henry ... and as the daughter of King Charles VI of France was viewed with considerable ...
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  • l'Institut, professeur au Collège de France CIPB0463.jpg|thumb|right ... work was generally not well received in France due to the dominance of Durkheim ...
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  • period in 1893-1895, never returned to France. He painted many Tahitian ... In 1842, a European crisis involving Morocco escalated between France ...
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  • Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the ... instructors in local schools throughout France. Among the teachers at the ...
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  • withdrew from the proceedings. Later, a new German foreign minister, Hermann ... Kingdom, President Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy ...
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  • in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, near Paris, France. He was the son of Thomas ... during the glory years of Napoleon I of France spawned Alexandre's ...
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  • of calypso, in his 1986 book Calypso from France to Trinidad, 800 Years of ... these have now become showcases for new music. The first major stars ...
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  • remnant of its vast former territories of New France. Originally settled ... the Treaty of Paris (which ceded all of New France to Britain except for Saint ...
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  • France remains the greatest European hemp fiber producer with 50,000 ... * Lorenzani, Shirley S. Dietary Fiber. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats ...
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  • Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin was born in Paris, France, on February ... In 1825, a new turn was given to his thoughts and his life by the ...
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  • sparsely settled, fur-trading colony of New France (also called Canada). Sovereign Council, the territories of New France were developed as mercantile ...
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  • , born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370 ... John, suggesting that his loyalties to France sometimes got in the way ...
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  • and was also related to royalty in France and England. ... was defeated in Normandy, Philip II of France exchanged her properties ...
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  • (Saint Crispin's Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years ... the English King Henry V and Charles VI of France. Charles did not command ...
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  • and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published ... regiment recently returned from Dunkirk, France. Sterne’s father’s regiment ...
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  • in December 1994, which introduced a new power-sharing arrangement ... In 1957 the colony became a department of France, with its own elected legislature ...
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  • Marcel Mangel was born in Strasbourg, France, the son of Anne Werzberg ... to flee from their home to Limoges when France entered the Second World ...
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  • Emmanuel Mounier contributed for the development in France. ... In France, philosopher Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) was the leading ...
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  • as the founder of the field of folklore in France. He remains famous for his ... moved with his mother to live in Lyons, France. He initially enrolled in ...
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  • Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. New York: Peter Bedrick. ISBN ...
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  • a talented musician and was pre-eminent in France in the early eighteenth century ... Corelli's trio sonata form to France. Couperin's grand trio ...
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  • a source of aesthetic experience, placing a new emphasis on such emotions ... later become the Romantic movement in France. Later scholarship has cast ...
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  • was also inspired and developed based on the new ideals of Humanism. Individual ... facade), Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey]] ...
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  • Nicole himself was obliged to flee France for Belgium in 1679, returning ... Pierre Nicole was born in Chartres, France, in 1625, the son of a ...
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  • with mentally handicapped children in France and the United States. He ... Edouard Seguin was born on January 20, 1812, in Clamecy, France, into ...
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  • team. After graduating in 1934, she moved to New York City where she worked ... with the United States Information Agency to Paris, France. ...
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  • Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, and France had already carved out large ... As in the case of France, this view saw the Mediterranean as an extension ...
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  • before being ousted by then Prime Minister France-Albert René in 1977. ... France-Albert René founded an opposition party, the Seychelles People ...
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  • Born in Paris, France, the son of Sophie-Claire Depouilly, daughter ... the density increasing with depth. But this new arrangement, with the directional ...
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  • a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy ... writing a poem on the sale of Dunkirk to France. His poem was seen as evidence ...
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  • world, a title it retained until 1930, when New York City's Chrysler ... The tower is the second-highest structure in France, after the 350 ...
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  • comprehensives, whilst a number of new schools were built to accommodate ... Secondary education in France Secondary education in France is a combination ...
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  • degree in Aberdeen, and also traveled to France, where he obtained material ... of which was a travelogue, Travels through France and Italy, which remains ...
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  • close to the Palais Royal this afforded her new opportunities for drawing ... of an Artist in an Age of Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University ...
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  • III, the other German princes, Spain, France, Sweden, and representatives ... of the twenty-first century. However, many new nations were artificial creations ...
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  • 24, 1567. She also sat as Queen Consort of France from July 10, 1559 to December ... to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among ...
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