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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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