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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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  • from weakening the government of the new republic. Federalist proponents ... the conflict between Great Britain and France. Some saw France, which championed ...
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  • They also had settlements in Ireland, France, and Normandy and traded ... John) in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France in 1733. All of the islands ...
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  • rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France. Found during construction ... 1993), and for more than 10,000 years in France (Gravina 2005). ...
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  • of Philip III, reigned as King of France from 1285 until his death ... of what would later be the nation state of France. The firmness with which ...
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  • to scholars because opera was still quite a new medium when Cavalli began ... * Bukofzer, Manfred. Music in the Baroque Era. New York: W.W. Norton ...
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  • attempting to sail from Europe to Asia via a new route under the commission ... had yet been established in the "New World." Cartier was one ...
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  • |death_place=Paris, France |education= |label_name=Chanel ... Stravinsky, and Cocteau, she sought a new form of self expression, one ...
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  • girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. She was canonized as a saint ... When hard times fell on rural France the family lived in extreme poverty ...
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  • Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte was ceded to France along with the other Comoros in 1843. ...
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  • of tourists, economic dependence on France persists as a hurdle to eventual ... in 1797, were the first European settlers. France annexed the islands beginning ...
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  • be done directly in the battle zones of northern France. ... other supplies for displaced persons in France. Quakers were asked to collect ...
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  • Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, France to Charles and Augustine ... Braque's paintings of 1908–1913 began to reflect his new interest ...
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  • French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... indigenous tribes as well as people from France, the French-speaking Caribbean ...
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  • painter best known for his invention of a new genre, the fête galante, ... had recently been annexed by the King of France, Louis XIV. The Watteau family ...
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  • **Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki), twelfth century France **Abraham ibn Ezra ... **Samuel ben Meir, the Rashbam, twelfth century France **Rabbi Levi ...
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  • the ease and frivolity of life in France during the late nineteenth ... but he changed it to Jacques when he settled in France. ...
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  • of the Discount Bank (later the Banque de France); and a powerful member of ... Due to his prominence in the pre-revolutionary government in France ...
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  • his vision of ending war and of forging a new relationship between Germany ... the common good at the center of the new European Community. This has ...
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  • With the outbreak of World War II, the Nazi occupation of France led ... By 1949, he was working in Provence, France with acclaimed portrait ...
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  • turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main energy source ... great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses ...
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  • Other states joined the coalition opposing France and Spain in an attempt to ... Duc de Villars and the Duke of Berwick for France, the Duke of Marlborough ...
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  • of the ancien régime of pre-revolutionary France. France soon became a republic ... This contrasts with the pre-revolutionary situation in France, where ...
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  • Egypt. Today, faience is usually made in France, Germany, Spain, and Scandinavia ... In the New Kingdom (1539–1075 B.C.E.), during the reigns of Amenhotep ...
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  • Communist movements, such as Italy and France, were given a variety of ... of the Korean War, Truman attempted to aid France's bid to hold onto its ...
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  • Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the United States ... Japan's international status reached a new high. Ten years previous, ...
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  • look, which Dior created with his "New Look" line of clothing ... with their main flagship stores located in New York, Beverly Hills, Waikiki ...
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  • an outcry which forced him to leave France and go to Leiden, where he ... La Mettrie was born at Saint-Malo, France on December 25, 1709, to ...
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  • He was one of five directors who led France beginning in 1796 in the ... Carnot's father returned to France after two years in exile, ...
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  • as Le nouvel esprit scientifique ("The New Scientific Mind") (1934 ... He showed that new theories integrated old theories in new paradigms ...
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  • The agreement, signed by Nazi Germany, France, Britain, and Italy, permitted ... alliances between Czechoslovakia and France were not honored. ...
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  • painting Marie de' Medici, Queen of France, Landing in Marseilles. ... * Catherine de' Medici (1519 – 1589), Queen of France. ...
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  • achieve their goals. She established the New York Infirmary in 1857, thereby ... the United States, and set up a refinery in New York City. Unfortunately, ...
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  • According to Tristan Tzara, "God and my toothbrush are Dada, ... After the cabaret closed down, activities moved to a new gallery, ...
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  • ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ... The August 27, 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz already threatened France ...
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  • he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France (1285–1314) by a formal ... Philip IV The Fair of France's understanding of his role as God ...
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  • private tutor at the Berlitz School in Bordeaux, France. ... In July of 1918, Owen returned to active service in France, though ...
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  • figure in the political liberalization of France. Zola risked his career and ... known as Les Rougon-Macquart. Set in France's Second Empire, the ...
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  • Academy was refounded (Cameron 1965) as a new institution of some outstanding ... #039; Medici took a personal interest in the new Platonic Academy that he determined ...
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  • Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ... his studies at the University of Louvain, France, where he pursued philosophy ...
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  • New Citroën factories were constructed, and his firm became one of ... little Jew whom everyone calls the Ford of France"—language that would ...
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  • and set the stage for rivalry with France, which would continue intermittently ... Normandy is a region in northwest France, which in the 155 years prior ...
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  • Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. At the age of ... of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype. New York: Dover Publications, ...
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  • citing their rivalry with Britain and France in the fishing industry. ... European nation, such as Britain, France, and Spain. These confederacies ...
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  • Danton was born at Arcis-sur-Aube in northeastern France, to a respectable ... for the "popular principle" that France was to be a country of its ...
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  • . He spent most of his childhood in France, but returned to Romania ... stories. He and his family returned to France in 1938 for him to complete ...
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  • abroad, where he studied in Italy and France. During this time, he met ... exhibition in 1959, and a one-man show in New York City in 1975. Among his ...
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  • Durkheim was born in Épinal, in the Lorraine province of France. ... would go on to become major figures in France's intellectual life ...
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  • was one of the founders of Romanticism in France. In art and literature Romanticism ... Born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris, France, she was the daughter ...
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  • Gide was born in Paris, France, on November 22, 1869. His father was ... magazine Nouvelle Revue française (The New French Review). In 1916, Marc ...
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  • her dominions and colonies, and by France. When France fell, Britain ... of Poland started World War II. Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand ...
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  • Dr. King gave his famous speech at the Riverside Church in New York ... to Vietnam, and he went into exile in France. From 1976 through 1977, ...
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  • predominantly Catholic countries, such as France, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. ... and massacre of priests throughout France. Napoleon Bonaparte reestablished ...
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  • This world-renowned Order is the highest decoration in France and ... of services rendered to the country, this new order reflected the ideals ...
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  • it became very popular, especially in France. His works influenced the ... quarters.” In 1793 Utamaro released a new series of prints of women ...
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  • the age of 21 he left for Cambodia with his new wife, Clara Goldschmidt, a ... On his return to France he published his first novel, The Temptation ...
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  • . The southern shore of the lake is in France, taking in the mighty Savoy ... instead of settling in Southern France. The Romans occupied the ...
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  • hypnosis gradually moved from Scotland to France. His book has remained influential ... by Baron Reichenbach and others to a "new imponderable." Edinburgh; ...
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  • by founding what can be considered France's first central bank ... again. He spent ten years moving between France and the Netherlands, dealing ...
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  • In 1748, he left England to tour France and Italy. Upon his return ... privateers. He was imprisoned in Brest, France, for six days before being ...
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  • physician and journalist. He led France during World War I and was ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...
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  • Egypt against Israel, the United Kingdom, and France. The Suez Canal ... The alliance between the United Kingdom, France, and Israel was largely ...
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  • revived the popularity of philosophy in France. He developed a system that ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...
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  • of Korea to the world. When Japan, Russia, France, and the United States knocked ... and Korean converts alike. That same year France launched a punitive expedition ...
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  • decided to move near Versailles in Paris, France to be with Claude's ... with great interest. At that time in France, anthropology was not a separate ...
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  • most prominent in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and France, where ... RFU-affiliated Rugby Unions in Australia and New Zealand in 1907 and 1908, ...
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  • Paul Ricoeur was born on February 27, 1913 in Valence, France. His ... doctorate, submitting (as is customary in France) two theses: A "minor ...
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  • Napoleon had declared himself Emperor of France on May 18, 1804. ... == Habsburgs as Queens Consort of France == From the sixteenth through ...
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  • months, Nureyev performed in Paris, New York City, London, and Chicago ... of his tenure, he worked tirelessly, staging new versions of old standbys and ...
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  • Barred from settling in New France, many Huguenots moved instead to ... to allow Protestants to settle in New France was a factor behind that ...
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  • in both religious and political affairs in France. However, with the French ... to language or regional origin, those of France, Normandy, Picard, and England ...
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  • ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous ... Pierre Lescot introduced to Paris the new design vocabulary of the Renaissance ...
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  • Alfred Binet was born on July 11, 1857, in Nice, France. He was the ... and Simon created a test called the "New Methods for Diagnosing Idiocy ...
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  • a deep concern with how the place of the new natural philosophy should ... (Paris, Oxford) were still resistant to the new philosophies and sciences ...
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  • also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills). ... from lung cancer, and she died in 1924 at New Romney, Kent. She was buried ...
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  • was executed but Mortimer escaped to France. When Queen Isabella went ... defeat in Scotland, Edward, assisted by his new chamberlain and favorite, ...
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  • Fauré was elected to the Institut de France in 1909, but at the same ... During World War I, Fauré remained in France. In 1920, at the age of 75 ...
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  • in the Languedoc region of southwestern France. It is known internationally ... The story achieved national fame in France, and was then enhanced and ...
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  • Literary Realism began as a cultural movement with its roots in France ... (notably W. D. Howells) were based in New England. Among the Midwestern ...
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  • In 1655, Huygens traveled to France and was awarded his doctorate ... In 1660, Huygens spent a year in France, and another year in England ...
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  • altered the landscape of art, introducing new techniques, but their approach ... and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting ...
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  • recognition, Gauguin left his native France, eventually settling in Polynesia ... Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin ...
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  • New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of France. British explorer James Cook named the territory’s main island “New ...
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  • (including the North American colony of New France and the French East India ... 1758, the British mounted an attack on New France by land and by sea. The ...
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  • Alfred Louis Kroeber was born on June 11, 1876, in Hoboken, New Jersey ... teaching and became the first member of the new Department of Anthropology ...
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