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Henriette Guizot de Witt


Henriette Guizot de Witt (August 6, 1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris) was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot. Henriette Guizot de Witt was the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt. She was the sister of Guillaume Guizot. Her younger sister Pauline married Cornélis Henri de Witt, Conrad de Witt's brother. One of Henriette's daughters was the pronatalist and feminist activist Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger. In order to support family
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Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger


Honour in 1920. Marguerite de Witt was the daughter of , a mayor of Saint-Ouen-le-Pin who later became a conservative deputy representing the Calvados Department in the French National Assembly. The name "de Witt" disclosed the family's Dutch origins, as a result of which they also were members of France's minority Protestant community. Marguerite's mother, Henriette Guizot de Witt, was a prolific novelist who, as the daughter of François Guizot, also came from a leading family of French Protestants. Marguerite
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and her sister, Jeanne, were educated by their mother. While girls, they lived in a family environment in which they were surrounded by cousins. Along with members of the extended de Witt-Guizot families, there was an abundance of Broglie relatives as well as some of the younger kinsfolk of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, who was a family friend of the Guizots. Marguerite and Jeanne participated actively in their mother's philanthropic ventures. In 1865 a "workplace" for young girls was opened at
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François Guizot


Val Richer, years passed smoothly and rapidly away; and as his grandchildren grew up around him, he began to direct their attention to the history of their country. From these lessons sprang his last work, the "Histoire de France racontée à mes petits enfants". The history came down to 1789, and was continued to 1870 by his daughter Madame Guizot de Witt from her father's notes. Down to the summer of 1874 Guizot's mental vigour and activity were unimpaired. He died peacefully, and is said to
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who married two descendants of the illustrious Dutch family of De Witt, so congenial in faith and manners to the Huguenots of France, kept his house. One of his sons-in-law farmed the estate. And here Guizot devoted his later years with undiminished energy to literary labour, which was in fact his chief means of subsistence. Proud, independent, simple and contented he remained to the last; and these years of retirement were perhaps the happiest and most serene portion of his life. Two institutions may be said
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Jacomina de Witte


Jacomina de Witte (1582, The Hague – 1661, Zierikzee?) was the central figure in a famous corruption case in the Netherlands in 1649. Daughter of mayor Jacob de Witte and Jacomina Weijtsen. Since 1617 the spouse of Johan Oem van Wijngaarden, president of the legal court, she was accused of having accepted bribes in exchange for manipulating court cases through the office of her husband, for selling information and bribing officials of the court. She was put on trial in 1649, and was said to have been active
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Henriette Lorimier


exhibited at the 1804 Salon and in 1806 Henriette Lorimier was awarded a First Class Medal for her painting of ""Jeanne de Navarre"" which was then purchased by the Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, consort of the Emperor Napoleon Ier. The painting is still displayed at Josephine's Chateau de la Malmaison to this day. The painting depicts Jeanne of Évreux-Navarre, daughter of Charles II (King of Navarre) and widow of Jean V of Montfort Duke of Brittany who died in 1399 and whose third spouse she was.
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Sarah Monod


Sarah Monod and Isabelle Bogelot visited the International Congress of Women in London. Monod collaborated closely with two other activists pastors' daughters, Julie Siegfried (née Puaux) and Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (granddaughter of François Guizot). The National Council of French women ("Conseil national des femmes françaises") was established in 1901. The initial committee headed by Isabelle Bogelot included Sarah Monod, Avril de Sainte-Croix and Julie Siegfried from the Congress of works and women's institutions, and Marie Bonnevial, Madame Wiggishoff and
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She died in 1827. (An only son, François, born in 1819, died in 1837 of consumption.) In 1828 Guizot married Elisa Dillon, niece of his first wife, and also an author. She died in 1833, leaving two daughters, Henriette (1829-1908), a co-author with her father and prolific writer herself, and Pauline (1831-1874) and a son, Guillaume (1833–1892), who attained some reputation as a scholar and writer. He and historian Francois Mignet
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Jean Schlumberger


Jean Schlumberger (26 May 1877 – 25 October 1968) was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Guebwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, and died in Paris. Pierre Conrad Nicolas Jean Schlumberger was the son of Paul Schlumberger, the scion of a textile manufacturing family of German origin, and Marguerite de Witt, the granddaughter of François Guizot. Two of his brothers, Conrad and Marcel, founded the Schlumberger company. Jean Schlumberger is best known as a writer of novels, plays and books of poetry. He was
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Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet


as she is frequently called, was a witness to the private lives of the royals, and her memoirs serve as unique testimony to much unchronicled history. Henriette-Lucy Dillon was born into a prominent Irish Wild Geese Jacobite military family in France. She was daughter of Arthur Dillon, colonel-proprietor of the Dillon Regiment, and his first spouse Therese-Lucy de Rothe (1751–1782). Her father had been born in England, so she was often regarded in France as English. However the family, of Norman descent
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, a former abbey that had been a Guizot family property since 1836. Five years later, a children's asylum was added. For twenty years Marguerite served as a Protestant prison visitor, becoming associated with the campaigning of the abolitionist Protestant philanthropist Sarah Monod in respect of the "fallen women" detained in the Hospital-prison of Saint-Lazare. During that time, she married Paul Schlumberger (1876). She took over her mother's work that involved the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She campaigned with energy for the abolition
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Henriette Campan


own house pillaged and burned that day, Henriette sought asylum in the countryside. She survived the Reign of Terror, but after the 9th of Thermidor, finding herself almost penniless, and being thrown on her own resources by the illness of her spouse, Campan determined to support herself by in 1794 establishing a school at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The institution prospered, and was patronized by Hortense de Beauharnais, whose influence led to the appointment of Campan as superintendent of the academy founded by Napoleon at Écouen for the
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father to the Opera in Paris, and hunted with him five days a week from the beginning of 1746 onward. Her twin Élisabeth, who was described as ambitious, was not satisfied as the spouse of a prince without a throne; she kept in contact with the French court through correspondence, and had already by 1740 established a net of contacts there to assist her in her ambition to obtain independent power positions for herself and her spouse "worthy of the birth of both"; Henriette was one of her most fervent champions
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have recited verses of Corneille and texts from Scripture on his death-bed. During the 1820s, Guizot was among the darlings of the European liberal intelligentsia. His historical works such as "Histoire générale de la civilisation en Europe" (1828) and "Histoire de la civilisation en France" (1830) were widely admired by such luminaries as John Stuart Mill ("I have dinned into people's ears that Guizot is a great thinker and writer"), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("Guizot is a man after
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Monica Witt


While in Tehran, Witt spoke with Kevin Barrett saying "she had been involved in horrific war crimes with the Air Force, […] And she just felt really bad about it." Witt also took time to participate in more, similar anti-American videos as before. Beginning July 2013, Witt repeatedly searched Facebook for former counterintelligence coworkers, including an intelligence operative who worked with Witt's previous special access program, and the spouse of another. On August 25, 2013, Witt emailed Hashemi with evidence of her
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twenty-two, he wrote a review of François-René de Chateaubriand's "Martyrs", which won Chateaubriand's approbation and thanks, and he continued to contribute largely to the periodical press. At Suard's he had made the acquaintance of Pauline de Meulan (born 2 November 1773), a contributor to Suard's journal. Her contributions were interrupted by illness, but immediately resumed and continued by an unknown hand. It was discovered that François Guizot had substituted for her. In 1812 Mademoiselle de Meulan married Guizot.
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) through hard work and thrift. As Prime Minister, it was Guizot's ban on the political meetings (called the campagne des banquets or the Paris Banquets, which were held by moderate liberals who wanted a larger extension of the franchise) of an increasingly vigorous opposition in January 1848 that catalyzed the revolution that toppled Louis Philippe in February and saw the establishment of the French Second Republic. Guizot was born at Nîmes to a bourgeois Protestant family. On 8 April 1794, when François Guizot was 6, his father was executed
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which led to a temporary estrangement between the sisters. In 1747, her brother Louis was forced to marry Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, against his will shortly after the death of his beloved first spouse, Maria Teresa Rafaela, in childbirth. This caused Louis to initially be hostile toward Maria Josepha, even more so when his only child with the Spanish Infanta died at the age of two, but she eventually managed to win his affection, upon the advice of Henriette. Henriette died of smallpox in 1752 at
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Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (artist)


16 February 1822, the son of Jan Herman ten Kate (1789–1860), and Johanna Henriette Adriana de Witte van Haemstede (1792–1858). He was a student of Cornelis Kruseman from 1837 and 1841. After his education he traveled to Belgium, Germany, Italy and France, during 1841–42. In Paris, Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier advised him on his painting. On his return from his travels, he studied in the Municipal Academy (1842) and at the Royal Academy of Art (1841–42). His career started
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invented the concept of the bourgeois revolution. During the First French Empire, Guizot, entirely devoted to literary pursuits, published a collection of French synonyms (1809), an essay on the fine arts (1811), and a translation of Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", with additional notes, in 1812. These works recommended him to the notice of Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, grand-master of the University of France, who selected Guizot for the chair of
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Doctrinaires


Collard himself, Jean Maximilien Lamarque and Maine de Biran had sat in the revolutionary Assemblies. Pasquier, the comte de Beugnot, the baron de Barante, Georges Cuvier, Mounier, Guizot and Decazes had been imperial officials, but they were closely united by political principle and also by a certain similarity of method. Some of them, notably Guizot and Maine de Biran, were theorists and commentators on the principles of government. The baron de Barante was an eminent man of letters. All were noted for the doctrinal coherence of their
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, but to establish a liberal monarchy and to combat the reactionary ultra-royalists. On the second restoration, Guizot was appointed secretary-general of the ministry of justice under de Barbé-Marbois, but resigned with his chief in 1816. In 1819 he was one of the founders of the Liberal journal "Le Courrier français". Again in 1819 he was appointed general director of communes and departments in the ministry of the interior, but lost his office with the fall of Decazes in February 1820. During these years Guizot
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Johan de Witt


and ahead of its time. In modern terminology, De Witt expressed the value of a life annuity as the expected value of a random variable. Assessment of life annuities by De Witt anticipated later developments: Currently one Dutch warship is named after Johan De Witt. HNLMS "Johan de Witt" (L801) is an amphibious Landing Platform Dock vessel from the Rotterdam Class LPD. Additionally, three statues of Johan de Witt can be found in the Netherlands. The lynching of the De Witt brothers is depicted with a dramatic intensity
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-wrote a critical assessment of this two-volume history. In 1854 Guizot published his "Histoire de la république d'Angleterre et de Cromwell" (2 vols., 1854), then his "Histoire du protectorat de Cromwell et du rétablissement des Stuarts" (2 vols., 1856). He also published an essay on Peel, and amid many essays on religion, during the ten years 1858–1868, appeared the extensive "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de mon temps", in nine volumes. His speeches were included
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such as Guizot ("le parti de la Résistance", the Party of Resistance) and liberal reformers such as the journalist Adolphe Thiers ("le parti du Mouvement", the Party of Movement), the latter never gained prominence. Perier was succeeded as premier by Count Molé, another conservative. Thiers, a reformer, succeeded Molé but was later sacked by Louis-Philippe after attempting to pursue an aggressive foreign policy. After Thiers the conservative Guizot was selected as premier. In particular, the Guizot administration was marked
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Andries de Witt


Andries de Witt (16 June 1573, Dordrecht - 26 November 1637, Dordrecht) was Grand Pensionary of Holland between 1619 and 1621. He was the successor of Johan van Oldebarnevelt, who had been executed in 1619. Andries de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt. He was the oldest son of Johanna Heijmans and Cornelis Fransz de Witt (1545-1622), 16-fold burgomaster of Dordrecht. He was the uncle of Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary from 1652 to 1672
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Henriette of Cleves


Henriette of Cleves (31 October 1542 – 24 June 1601) was a French courtier and noble, heir of the Cleves-Nevers family. She became the "suo jure" 4th Duchess of Nevers and the "suo jure" Countess of Rethel, upon the childless death of her brother, James of Cleves, Duke of Nevers and Count of Rethel, in 1564. She was the spouse of Louis I Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, 1st Duke of Rethel, and Prince of Mantua and Duchess of Rethel and Princess of
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and Lord Aberdeen, the foreign secretary to Sir Robert Peel, carried on well, and thus they secured France and Britain in the entente cordiale. Part of the formation of the entente came about when Guizot secured the transfer of Napoleon’s ashes from St. Helena to the French government. The opposition in France denounced Guizot's foreign policy as basely subservient to England. He replied in terms of unmeasured contempt: "You may raise the pile of calumny as high as you will; "vous n'arriverez jamais a la hauteur de mon
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my own heart...He possesses deep knowledge, combined with an enlightened liberality"), Charles Sainte-Beuve ("this astonishing man about whom one could say so many things"), and Alexis de Tocqueville. Guizot's later resolute opposition to universal suffrage has led his critics to argue that he was a conservative or even reactionary. However, it is more accurate to describe Guizot as a proponent of the "juste milieu" or political center that defended representative government against absolutism and the excesses of democracy. His doctrine
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Doctrinaires


laws (only around 100,000 Frenchmen had at the time the right to vote). During the July Monarchy, they were an intellectual and political group within the Resistance Party. Led by the Duke of Broglie and François Guizot, the Doctrinaires held powerful posts throughout the reign of Louis-Philippe. Broglie (1835–1836) and Guizot (1847–1848) were both Prime Ministers of France, although Guizot and the Doctrinaires dominated the political scenery during the premiership of Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1840–1847). The Doctrinaires first obtained
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Affair of the Spanish Marriages


had been brought to the brink of war on the matter of the Syrian question, before France's king Louis-Philippe intervened to de-escalate the crisis. The second Soult government was formed in autumn of 1840 in France with Guizot as foreign minister, and Guizot set himself to the task of restoring friendly relationships with other European powers – including Britain – who had sided with the Ottoman Empire in the crisis. Guizot became a personal friend of the British foreign minister, Lord Aberdeen. Relations between Britain and France warmed significantly
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Henry Reeve (journalist)


and numbered among his friends Alphonse de Lamartine, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Alfred de Vigny, Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and Alexis de Tocqueville, of whose books, "Démocratie en Amérique" and the "Ancien Régime", he made standard translations into English. In 1837 he was made clerk of appeal and then registrar to the judicial committee of the Privy Council. From 1840 to 1855 he wrote for "The Times", his close touch with men like Guizot, Christian
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Henriette Louise de Bourbon


Henriette Louise de Bourbon (Henriette Louise Marie Françoise Gabrielle; 15 January 1703 – 19 September 1772) was a French princess by birth and a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey. Henriette Louise was born at the Palace of Versailles, the seventh child and fifth daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé and his wife, Louise-Françoise de Bourbon. Henriette Louise's father was a grandson of "le Grand Condé", and her mother was the
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in the hope of obtaining assistance for Brandenburg's struggle for influence in Pomerania. The couple lived in Cleves for the first years of their marriage, but they moved to Brandenburg, Frederick William's seat, in 1648. During her marriage, Luise Henriette followed her spouse and traveled between The Hague, Königsberg, Berlin and Cleves on campaigns, inspections, war and battle fields in Poland and Denmark. She acted as her husband's political adviser and was described as a pragmatist. She managed, through correspondence with the Queen of
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Christiane Henriette Louise Juel


Christiane Henriette Louise Juel née von Schleinitz (1709-1756) was a Danish noblewoman and courtier. She served as maid-of-honor to the queen, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and married the queen's courtier Carl Juel in 1738. She and her spouse where powerful central figures at the Danish royal court and their careers there took place in parallel: in 1742-43 they served as chamberlain and chief lady-in-waiting to Princess Louise of Denmark (1726–1756), and in 1743 they were
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Johan de Witt Jr.


Johan de Witt Jr., heer van Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard and IJsselveere (1662–1701) was the son of Johan de Witt and his wife Wendela Bicker (1635-1668). Having been part of the old Dutch patrician De Witt family, De Witt Jr. took a seat as secretary of the city of Dordrecht. In 1672, after the murder of his father, his uncle Pieter de Graeff became the guardian of Johann and his siblings. Johan de Witt Jr. later became the overseer of the orphanage in Dordrecht
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Jan de Witte (bishop)


Jan de Witte O.P. (1475–1540), also Joannes Albus in Latin and Juan de Witte Hoos or Juan de Ubite in some Spanish sources, was a Flemish renaissance humanist and Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Cuba (1518–1525). Jan de Witte was the son of Maria Hoose and the merchant Jan de Witte, lord of Ruddervoorde, who was mayor of Brugge in 1473. The De Witte family traded with Spain and Jan was sent to Valladolid for training, where he ended up being ordained a priest
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Cornelis de Witt


released, victim of a conspiracy by the Orangists Johan Kievit and Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp. Both their bodies were mutilated and their hearts were carved out to be exhibited as trophies. Cornelis de Witt was married to Maria van Berckel (1632–1706). The couple had one daughter, Wilhelmina de Witt (1671–1702). She married her first cousin (the son of Johan de Witt) Johan de Witt Jr. (1662–1701), secretary of Dordrecht. Cornelis de Witt and his role in Dutch politics was depicted in the 2015
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Jacob H. De Witt


Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt (October 2, 1784 – January 30, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Marbletown, New York, De Witt was raised in Twaalskill (now part of the city of Kingston). His father was Colonel Thomas De Witt, a veteran of the American Revolution. His aunt Mary De Witt was the first wife of General James Clinton, and was the mother of DeWitt Clinton. Jacob De Witt attended the rural schools of Twaalskill and the Kingston (New York) Academy
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Gaspar de Witte


Gaspar de Witte (variations on his first name: Caspar, Jasper, and Jaspar) (bapt. 5 October 1624, Antwerp - 20 March 1681, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter who is known for his landscapes and gallery paintings. Gaspar de Witte was born in Antwerp as the son of Peter de Witte II en Barbara Remeeus. He was member of a prominent painting family. His father and his brothers Peter de Witte III and Jan Baptist de Witte were all painters. Gaspar was also the godchild of Gerard Seghers
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Emanuel de Witte


Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692) was a Dutch perspective painter. In contrast to Pieter Jansz Saenredam, who emphasized architectural accuracy, De Witte was more concerned with the atmosphere of his interiors. Though few in number, de Witte also produced genre paintings. De Witte was born in Alkmaar and learned geometry from his father a schoolmaster. He joined the local Guild of St Luke in 1636. After a stay in Rotterdam, he moved to Delft and studied with Evert van Aelst. In 1651 de Witte settled in Amsterdam where his
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Karolina Sobańska


Countess "Karolina" Rozalia Tekla Sobańska (née Rzewuska) (25 December 1795 – 21 July 1885) was a Polish agent and noblewoman. She was a Russian agent, the mistress of the Tsarist general Jan Witt and a reputed lover of Poland's national poet Adam Mickiewicz. Karolina Sobańska belonged to the well-known "szlachta" family of Rzewuski. Sister of Ewelina Hańska, wife of Honoré de Balzac. Karolina's first spouse was a Russian officer, Stefan Cerkovic. In 1814, she married marszałek Hieronim Sobański h.
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Sophie von Knorring


de Staël, for whom she felt deep admiration. She also watched Racine and Corneille performed by the French theatre company, including the famous Marguerite Georges, which had been expelled from Russia, and tableau vivants and pantomimes performed by Henriette Hendel-Schütz, which made a great success in Stockholm. In 1814, her father was ruined, and the family lived under limited circumstances. In 1820, she married colonel Baron Sebastian von Knorring. Her marriage in did not change her economic situation much, as though her spouse was a
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François Guizot


until 11 October 1832 that a stable government was formed, in which Marshal Soult was first minister, Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie took the foreign office, Adolphe Thiers the home department, and Guizot the department of public instruction. Guizot, however, was already unpopular with the more advanced liberal party. He remained unpopular all his life. Yet never were his great abilities more useful to his country than while he filled this office of secondary rank but of primary importance in the department of public instruction. The duties it imposed
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Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau


Europe. In 1665, she founded an orphanage with places for 24 children. She was described as truly kind and gentle with a sharp intellect: her advice was vital for her spouse, and their marriage was considered a role model. During time of war, she made great efforts to soften the damages upon society. A Protestant religious community known as the "Luise-Henrietten-Stift" in nearby Lehnin Abbey was named after her. With Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, she had six children. Luise Henriette died
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Dora Maar


Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Henriette Theodora Markovitch was the only daughter of Joseph Markovitch (1875–1969), a Croatian architect who studied in Zagreb, Vienna, and then Paris where he settled in 1896, and of his spouse, Catholic-raised Louise-Julie Voisin (1877–1942), originally from Cognac, France. In 1910, the family left for Buenos Aires where the father obtained several commissions including for
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De Witt (family)


De Witt (also: De Wit, De Witte and De With) is the name of an old Dutch patrician and regenten family. Originally from Dordrecht, the genealogy of the family begins with Jan de Witte, a patrician who lived around 1295. The family have played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age. They were at the centre of Dordrecht and Holland oligarchy from the end of the 16th century until 1672. During the Dutch Golden Age, the republican De Witt family opposed the royalists associated with the House of
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during his exile in England after 1848. The Martignac administration restored Guizot in 1828 to his professor's chair and to the council of state. During his time at the University of Paris his lectures earned him a reputation as a historian of note. These lectures formed the basis of his general "Histoire de la civilisation en Europe" (1828; Eng. trans. by William Hazlitt, 3 vols., 1846), and of his "Histoire de la civilisation en France" (4 vols., 1830),
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and a host of more recent celebrities were added by election for the free discussion of the great problems of political and social science. The Société de l'histoire de France was founded for the publication of historical works, and a vast publication of medieval chronicles and diplomatic papers was undertaken at the expense of the state. The July Monarchy was threatened in 1839 by Louis-Mathieu Molé, who had formed an intermediate government. Guizot and the leaders of the left centre and the left, Thiers and Odilon Barrot worked together to stop Molé
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Adolphe Monod


Guizot (1833-1892), son of the French statesman and Protestant historian François Guizot (1787-1874) referred to him in an article published in the “Journal des débats politiques et littéraires” (Journal of political and literary debates) on April 11, 1856, i.e. a few days after Adolphe Monod's funeral, as "one of the foremost Christian speakers of his time." He published three volumes of sermons in 1830, another, "La Crédulité de l'incrédule" in 1844, and two more in
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were detained. Following these riots, Interior Minister Guizot requested the resignation of the prefect of the Seine, Odilon Barrot, who had criticized the parliamentarians' address to the king. Supported by Victor de Broglie, Guizot considered that an important civil servant could not criticize an act of the Chamber of Deputies, particularly when it had been approved by the King and his government. Dupont de l'Eure took Barrot's side, threatening to resign if the King disavowed him. The banker Laffitte, one of the main figures of the "
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Simeon De Witt


New Brunswick, New Jersey. After the capture of New Brunswick by the British during the war, De Witt fled to New York City where he joined the Revolutionary Army. In June 1778, having been trained as a surveyor by James Clinton, the husband of De Witt's Aunt Mary, De Witt was appointed as assistant to the Geographer and Surveyor of the Army, Colonel Robert Erskine, and contributed to a number of historically significant maps. After Erskine's death in 1780, De Witt was appointed to his post.
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a State Senator – and was a Democratic-Republican, De Witt was never removed from office. Both Federalists and Bucktails recognized his outstanding qualification for the office. In 1796, George Washington favored De Witt to become the Surveyor General of the United States, but De Witt turned down the nomination. Washington wrote to Thomas Jefferson about De Witt "I can assure you, he is extremely modest, sensible, sober, discreet, and deserving of favors. He is esteemed a very good mathematician," but despite this praise
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Jacob de Witt


Jacob de Witt, "heer van Manezee, Melissant and Comstryen" (born 7 February 1589 in Dordrecht – died 10 January 1674 in Dordrecht) was a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant. He was also a younger brother of Andries de Witt and the father of Johan and Cornelis de Witt. Jacob was a member of the patrician De Witt family. He studied law at Leiden University and obtained a law degree there. In 1618, he became treasurer of the Synod of Dort, where he held
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Cornelis de Witt


Cornelis de Witt () (15 June 1623 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch politician. Cornelis de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt. He was born on 15 June 1623 in Dordrecht, Holland, Dutch Republic. He was the son of Jacob de Witt and the older brother of Johan. In 1650 he became burgomaster of Dordrecht and member of the States of Holland and West Friesland. He was afterwards appointed to the important post of "", who combined the functions of chief
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"Rampjaar" (1672). In the hysteria that followed the effortless invasion by an alliance of three countries, he and his brother Cornelis de Witt were blamed and lynched in The Hague, whereafter rioters partially ate them. The rioters were never prosecuted, and historians have argued that William of Orange may have incited them. Johan de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt. His father was Jacob de Witt, an influential "regent" and burgher from the patrician class in the city of Dordrecht
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stirred into life again by the attitude of Thiers in the Eastern Question and of Guizot in the affair of the Spanish Marriages. From 1836 to 1848, De Broglie held almost completely aloof from politics, to which his scholarly temperament little inclined him, a disinclination strengthened by the death of his wife on 22 September 1838. His friendship for Guizot, however, induced him to accept a temporary mission in 1845, and in 1847 to go as French ambassador to London. The revolution of 1848 was a great blow to him,
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Simeon De Witt


Simeon De Witt (December 25, 1756 – December 3, 1834) was Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Surveyor General of the State of New York for the fifty years from 1784 until his death. De Witt was born in Ulster County, New York, one of fourteen children of physician Dr. Andries De Witt and Jannetje Vernooy De Witt, both of Dutch ancestry. He was the only graduate in the class of 1776 at Queens College – now Rutgers College of Rutgers University – in
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De Witt Township, Clinton County, Iowa


De Witt Township is a township in Clinton County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 6,346. De Witt Township was organized in 1843. It is named for DeWitt Clinton. De Witt Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, De Witt. According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Elmwood and Saint Joseph. Crystal Lake is within this township. The streams of Ames Creek, Crystal Creek, Rock Creek and Silver Creek run through this township. The Ames Creek
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Ivan De Witte


he finished his studies, he worked a year as an assistant of the university. Since his teens, De Witte has played soccer at the amateur level. De Witte served on the Board of Directors of the Ghent steel company Sidmar for ten years, during which he met fellow worker Maarten Morel. In 1982, they left Sidmar and founded De Witte & Morel, a company that was specialised in human resources management. In 1995, the consultancy company was acquired as a subsidiary by Ernst & Young. De Witte remained delegate
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Johan de Witt Jr.


(1684-1685). After that he became secretary (1688-1701) and member of the College of forty (1695) of Dordrecht. Johan de Witt Jr. married his cousin Wilhelmina de Witt (1671-1701), the daughter of his uncle Cornelis de Witt (1623-1672) en Maria van Berckel (1632-1706). The couple had two children: Johan de Witt Jr. owned an extensive library, consisting of books that previously belonged to his father as well as additions of his own.
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David M. De Witt


David Miller De Witt (November 25, 1837 – June 23, 1912) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, De Witt moved to New York in 1845 with his parents, who settled in Brooklyn. As a youth, De Witt attended the public schools of Brooklyn, a select school at Saugerties, and the local academy at Kingston. He was graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1858, where he studied law. De Witt was admitted to the
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Zofia Potocka


1781 Zofia gave birth in Paris to a son. When this news reached the Polish king, she personally visited Kamianets and congratulated her father-in-law Josef Witt with the birth of a grandson, promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant General and volunteered to be the godfather of the newborn. In 1782, the couple returned to Kamianets visiting Vienna, Moravia, Slovakia and Galicia on the way. In 1785, her spouse Joseph Witte succeeded his father as commandant of Kamianets-Podilskyi, making Zofia first lady of Podolia
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Henriette of Cleves


of Nevers and 1st Duke of Rethel by right of his wife, while Henriette acquired the new titles of Duchess of Rethel and Princess of Mantua. Louis and Henriette had five children: Henriette of Cleves had an office at court as the lady-in-waiting or "Dame" of queen Catherine de' Medici, and was known as the intimate personal friend and confidant of Marguerite of Valois. Henriette became the mistress of Annibale Coconna, a Piedmontese adventurer who was beheaded in 1574, along with Joseph Boniface de La Mole
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Henriette Wienecke


father, and married her singing teacher after her confirmation. The couple had one daughter, who died as an infant. She had a wish to become an actress, but her spouse did not consider it suitable for a person of her social class. She did, however, take piano lessons. In 1840, she moved permanently to Copenhagen with her spouse and mother. In 1848, after having lost her mother, newborn son and parents-in-law, she retired from social life, had a religious conversion,
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Amalie Sophie Holstein


. Influencing government policy in this manner was regarded as a scandal. As a result the king appointed her spouse to a post in the Danish countryside, which reportedly they both found a less than pleasing place to reside. She was a cousin of Ida Hedevig Moltke, and her relative Charlotte Elisabeth Henriette Holstein served as the chief lady-in-waiting to queen Caroline Matilda. Upon the recommendation of the queen's friend Christine Sophie von Gähler, her spouse was given a political post by the queen's lover Johann Friedrich Struensee
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Emanuel de Witte


in exchange for training him as a painter of church interiors. According to Arnold Houbraken, after an argument about the rent, de Witte hanged himself from a canal bridge in 1692. The rope broke and de Witte drowned. Because the canal froze that night, his corpse was not found until eleven weeks later. De Witte initially painted portraits as well as mythological and religious scenes. After his move from Delft to Amsterdam in 1651, de Witte specialized more and more in representing church interiors, and also he painted the old
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Peter de Witte III


Peter de Witte (1617, Antwerp, to 1667, Antwerp), was a Flemish Baroque painter. According to the Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken, the painter whose name was spelled Peter de Wit was worthy of indexing in Houbraken's "De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen" ("The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters") (1718), with a snippet of poetry about deWit by Cornelis de Bie that mentioned de Wit's talents as a landscape painter. De Witte was the illegitimate son of Pieter de Witte
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Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata


was tied with free trade, Brazil should accept extending their free trade agreement with Britain before imposing it on Rosas, and that if Brazil was concerned with humanitarian reasons they should start by abolishing slavery in their own country. Then he met Guizot, who was not receptive either. Guizot felt forced by circumstances to join a war where he did not expect to earn anything, and was reluctant to involve French troops in it. Britain would not resort to ground troops either, as the British invasions of the Río de la Plata
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Henriette Louise de Bourbon


eldest surviving legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. Henriette Louise grew up at Fontevraud Abbey. She was one of nine children. Henriette Louise was a member of the House of Condé, a cadet branch of the reigning House of Bourbon. As a result, she was a "princesse du Sang" at court. This rank allowed Henriette the style of "Serene Highness". From birth, she was known as Mademoiselle de Vermandois, Vermandois being a county that had long belonged
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Orphans of the Storm


Louise into begging. Meanwhile, de Vaudrey proposes to Henriette and she refuses. After expressing love for each other, he promises Henriette that Louise will be found. King Louis XVI orders Henriette to be arrested, due to his disapproval of de Vaudrey's choice of wife, and the Chevalier is also sent away while his aunt visits Henriette. During the meeting, Louise is heard singing outside, where Frochard has told her to walk blindly and sing. Henriette calls out from her upstairs balcony, but the panicked Louise is dragged
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Johan de Witt


-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, as supreme commander of the confederate fleet. Later De Witt became a personal friend of Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. The Second Anglo-Dutch War began in 1665, lasting until 1667 when it ended with the Treaty of Breda, in which De Witt negotiated very favorable agreements for the Republic after the partial destruction of the English fleet in the Raid on the Medway, initiated by De Witt himself and executed in 1667 by De Ruyter. At about the time the Treaty of Breda was
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HNLMS Witte de With (1984)


HNLMS "Witte de With" (F813) () was a frigate of the . The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1986 to 2006. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Witte Corneliszoon de With. The ship's radio call sign was "PAVP". HNLMS "Witte de With" was one of two s and was built at the KM de Schelde in Vlissingen. The keel laying took place on 15 December 1981 and the launching on 25 August 1984. The ship was put into
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Johan de Witt


). Jan Bicker served as mayor of Amsterdam in 1653. De Witt became a relative to the strong republican-minded brothers Cornelis and Andries de Graeff, and to Andries Bicker. The couple had four children, three daughters and one son: After De Witt's death, his brother in law Pieter de Graeff became a guardian over his children. In 1653, the States of Holland elected De Witt councilor pensionary. Since Holland was the Republic's most powerful province, he was effectively the political leader of the United Provinces
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Ludo De Witte


Ludo De Witte (born 1956) is a Belgian sociologist and writer internationally known for his book "The assassination of Lumumba", on the murder of Patrice Lumumba. In his latest work, "Als de laatste boom geveld is, eten we ons geld wel op: kapitalisme versus de aarde", De Witte promotes Eco-socialism, stating that to save the world from ecocide, we have to free it from the yoke of capitalism. De Witte also advocates a close cooperation between red and green in their mutual anti
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Jeanne Henriette Louis


Jeanne Henriette Louis (often spelled Jeanne-Henriette Louis), born in 1938 in Bordeaux, is professor emeritus of civilization in North America at the University of Orléans, France. Her work concerns the psychological warfare and the peace movement. In 1983, Jeanne Henriette Louis defended his thesis on psychological warfare in the United States during World War II, entitled "Les concepts de guerre psychologique aux États-Unis de 1939 à 1943, l’engrenage de la violence" ("The concepts of psychological warfare in the United States from 1939
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Ida Hedevig Moltke


Ida Hedevig Moltke (1744–1816) was a Danish countess and letter writer. She was born to nobleman Frederik von Buchwald and Henriette Emilie von Holstein and became the cousin of Amalie Sofie Holstein and sister-in-law of Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. In 1760, she married the courtier count Christian Frederik Moltke (1736–1771). The court office of her first spouse made her a participator in Danish court life, where she became known for her love life. While her spouse was the lover of Elisabet von Eyben,
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De Witt, Nebraska


De Witt is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 513 at the 2010 census. De Witt was established in 1872 when the railroad was extended to that point. De Witt is located at (40.394982, -96.920790). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 513 people, 222 households, and 154 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were
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Léon de Witte de Haelen


Baron Léon Alphonse Ernest Bruno de Witte de Haelen, born Léon de Witte (12 January 1857 in Ixelles – 15 July 1933 in Meer), was a Belgian army officer and general who served during World War I. He is particularly known for commanding the Belgian Cavalry Division at the Battle of Haelen in 1914. De Witte entered the Royal Military Academy in 1874. He was promoted to Sous-lieutenant in 1878. In 1880, he requested a transfer to the cavalry and was posted to the 2nd Chasseurs à Cheval. He
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De Witte (film)


De Witte is a Belgian film of 1934 in black and white, directed by Jan Vanderheyden. It is an adaptation of the hononymous book by Ernest Claes. "De Witte" was the first Flemish film production with sound and at the same time it was also very successful. Weeks after the première in Antwerp's Cinema Colosseum the public kept coming to the picture. The story describes the boyishnesses of Louis Verheyden, a white-haired rascal (usually nicknamed "de witte", meaning "the white one") in
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HNLMS Witte de With (1928)


HNLMS "Witte de With" () was an , named after the 17th century Dutch admiral Witte Corneliszoon de With. She served during World War II. The ship was laid down on 28 May 1927, at the shipyard of "Fijenoord", in Rotterdam, and launched on 11 September 1928. The ship was commissioned on 20 February 1930. On 16 November 1935, "Witte de With", her sister , and the cruiser , made a visit to Saigon. On 23 August 1936, "Sumatra",
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Gaspar de Witte


, an eminent history painter of Antwerp. Gaspar de Witte trained with his father, who was specialized in landscapes, church interiors and religious paintings. Gaspar de Witte travelled to Rome in 1646 and joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was the custom in the Bentvueghels to initiate new members and give them a nickname (the so-called bentname). Gaspar de Witte was given the nickname "Grondel" ("Gudgeon"). The reason why he was named after
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Hervey De Witt Griswold


) 2. The God Varuna in the Rig Veda by Hervey De Witt. Griswold (Apr 27, 2009) 3. Brahman: A study in the history of Indian philosophy by Hervey De Witt Griswold (Jan 1, 1900) (Vol -1 & Vol – 2 ) 4. INSIGHTS INTO MODERN HINDUISM by Hervey Dewitt, Editor Griswold (1934) 5. The Dayanandi interpretation of the word "deva" in the Rig Veda by Hervey De Witt Griswold (1897) 6. The problem of the Arya samaj by
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De Witt, Missouri


De Witt is a city in Carroll County, Missouri, United States. The population was 124 at the 2010 census, a net increase of 4 since the 2000 census. A post office called De Witt has been in operation since 1842. The community was named for DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York. De Witt is located at (39.384991, -93.220349). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. At the 2010 census, of 2010, there were 124
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Jan de Witte


Jan de Witte (1709–1785) was a Polish military engineer, professional officer and architect of Dutch descent. The designer of, among others, the Dominican church in Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine) and the Carmelite monastery in Berdyczów (modern Berdychiv, Ukraine), he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski (modern Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine). Jan de Witte was born in the Russian army encampment near Poltava on 8 July 1709, as a son of Jan de Witte (the Elder)
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François Guizot


class and promoted by the literary talents of the time. They were opposed alike to the democratic spirit of the age, to the military traditions of the empire, and to the bigotry and absolutism of the court. The Doctrinaires fell out of influence following the July Revolution in 1830. In 1820, when the reaction was at its height after the murder of the Duc de Berry, and the fall of the ministry of the duc Decazes, Guizot was deprived of his offices, and in 1822 even his course of lectures were
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Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine


Suzanne Henriette de Lorraine (1 February 1686 – 19 October 1710) was a member of the House of Lorraine and was the Duchess of Mantua by marriage. Her husband Ferdinand Charles Gonzaga was the last Gonzaga Duke of Mantua. Suzanne Henriette was the penultimate daughter of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf and his third wife Françoise de Montault de Navailles. Her two older half brothers, Henri and Emmanuel Maurice were successively dukes of Elbeuf and she was known as Mademoiselle d'Elbeuf. Henri Jules, Prince de Condé (son of "
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André de Witte


André de Witte (born 31 December 1944) is a Roman Catholic bishop, originally from Belgium. He has served as the Bishop of Ruy Barbosa in northeastern Brazil since 1994. André De Witte was born into a farming family in the village of Scheldewindeke, in the intensively developed countryside to the south of Ghent. He was the third child of Armand and Agnes de Witte (born Agnes Delbeke, 1906-1983). He undertook his studies for the priesthood in response to the call of Pope Pius XII in the encyclical
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Simeon De Witt


time there to a minimum. In addition to his work on New York City, De Witt laid out rectilinear street grids in Albany, New York; Ithaca, New York, of which he is considered one of the founders; and on a number of other developments of state-owned land. From 1810 to 1816, De Witt was also a member of the first Erie Canal Commission, a project dear to the heart of his cousin, De Witt Clinton. He ordered the making of surveys which would prove essential for
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First Stadtholderless period


war, and restore the stadtholderate. Buat, who handled English diplomatic correspondence with the knowledge and consent of De Witt, handed over the wrong letter to the Dutch pensionary in a moment of confusion. This letter exposed the plot and the main plotters. One of them was Johan Kievit, the corrupt Rotterdam regent who would play an ignominious role in the murder of the De Witt brothers in 1672. Though the whole affair was rather farcical, it strengthened De Witt's hand appreciably against his Orangist opponents. De Witt was able
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Rampjaar


Cornelis de Witt, the less gifted and less popular brother of Johan de Witt, was imprisoned in The Hague on suspicion of treason and plotting to assassinate William. When Johan de Witt visited his brother, the small cavalry security detail present was sent away on the pretext of stopping a group of marauding peasants. Around the prison a crowd had gathered, demanding the punishment of the brothers. The prison was stormed — according to some contemporary accounts, after Orangist Cornelis Tromp, an enemy of Johan de Witt, had given the
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Ivan De Witte


Ivan De Witte (Moortsele, 1947) is a Belgian entrepreneur and soccer executive. , he is CEO of the Belgian department of the HR company Hudson Benelux. Since 1999, he is also the director of football team AA Gent. Ivan De Witte was born in 1947 in the Moortsele. His parents were the owners of a charcuterie house. Later on, the family moved to Merelbeke. De Witte studied classical studies at the Sint-Lievenscollege in Ghent and got a certificate in business psychology at the Ghent University. Once
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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art


Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art is a center for contemporary art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded in 1990. Its current director is Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. The center explores developments in contemporary art worldwide and presents them through curated exhibitions, symposia, live events, educational programs, and a publishing arm. It is housed in a former school building on the Witte de Withstraat, a street in Rotterdam. Witte de With was established on January 27, 1990 as a center for contemporary art with the mission of introducing
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Hervey De Witt Griswold


Hervey De Witt Griswold (1901) 7. India, after the war, in India (After the war series) by Hervey DeWitt Griswold (1919) 8. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: The Mehdi & Messiah of Qadian by Hervey De Witt Griswold (1902) 9. The Messiah of Qadian: Being a Paper Read Before the Victoria Institute (1905 ) by H. D. (Hervey De Witt) Griswold (Oct 21, 2009) 10. The Radha swami sect: Paper read at the Mussee soorie Conference, 1906 by
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Hervey De Witt Griswold


Hervey De Witt Griswold (1906) 11. The Chet Rami Sect: Paper Read at the Mussoorie Conference, 1904 [1904] by H. D. (Hervey De Witt) Griswold (Dec 15, 2009) 12. The religion of the Rigveda, by Hervey De Witt Griswold (1971) 13. Dr. Griswold's "Autobiographical Notes, prepared for his descendants" (247 pp., 1938–40) 14. Catechism on Christian giving by H. D Griswold (1912) 15. Methods of teaching village Christians to read by
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Alexander De Witt


Alexander De Witt (April 2, 1798 – January 13, 1879) was a 19th-century American politician from the state of Massachusetts. Born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, De Witt worked in textile manufacturing in Oxford, Massachusetts. Active in politics as a Democrat, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1830, serving until 1836. He served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1851. An anti-slavery activist, De Witt later joined the Free Soil Party.
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Henriette Negrin


: " Ce brevet est de la propriété de Madame Henriette Brassart qui est l’inventeur. J’ai pris ce brevet en mon nom pour l’urgence du dépôt." (""This patent is the property of Madame Henriette Brassart who is the inventor. I submitted this patent in my name given the urgency of filing""). This pleating technique plays a central role in the design of the Delphos gown, whose creation Henriette Negrin confirmed as her own in a letter to Elsie McNeill Lee, at the time the exclusive distributor of
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Louise Henriette de Bourbon


brother Louis Armand de Bourbon, the Duke of Mercœur (1722–1730). One of Louise Henriette's cousins, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, son of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse, and heir to the Penthièvre fortune, had proposed marriage to her, but her mother's choice fell upon the heir of the more prestigious House of Orléans. As a result, on 17 December 1743, at the age of seventeen, Louise Henriette married her second cousin, the Duke of Chartres,
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Henriette de Verninac


Henriette de Verninac (1780–1827) was the daughter of Charles-François Delacroix, minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory, and wife of the diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur. She is known as the subject of a portrait by Jacques-Louis David. Henriette de Verninac was born in 1780. Her father was Charles-François Delacroix (or Lacroix), minister of Foreign Affairs under the Directory. She was the second of four children. Her older brother Charles was a general during the First French Empire. Her
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