Louis Gaspard Gustave Adolphe Yvelin de Béville [SEP] military rank
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Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant


Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (17 November 1764 – 3 April 1853) was a French politician. He was the father of Louis Adolphe le Doulcet and Philippe Gustave le Doulcet. Born in Caen on the 1764, he began a military career with the "Compagnie Écossaise" of the "Garde du corps du Roi" in 1778, becoming Lieutenant Colonel in 1791. A moderate supporter of the French Revolution, he was elected to the National Convention for the "départment" of Calvados in 1792, and became
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Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant


Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 20 February 1882) was a French soldier and musicologist. He was the son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant and the older brother of Philippe Gustave le Doulcet. A soldier in the armies of Napoleon I, he fought in the invasion of Russia and the campaign of 1814, and then emigrated to [Brazil, where he took part in the abortive Pernambucan Revolution in 1817. He also organized a French volunteer contingent in the Belgian Revolution of 1830,
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Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant


Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1795–1874) was a French astronomer. He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849. Following his retirement he dedicated himself to the study of mathematics and astronomy. In 1829 he used the mathematical methods of Poisson and Lagrange to successfully predict the return of Halley's comet with good precision. His prediction of the perihelion passage was correct to within two days.
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Adolph Ribbing


Adolph Ludvig Ribbing, later called "Adolph de Leuven" (10 January 1765 in Stockholm – 1 April 1843 in Paris), was a Swedish count and politician. He participated in the regicide of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792. Adolph Ribbing was the son of count Fredrik Ribbing and Eva Helena Löwen. He spent his childhood at the Swedish royal court, as his mother was a popular socialite and the personal friend of both Louisa Ulrika of Prussia and Gustav III of Sweden. He received a military education in Berlin and
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Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1721-1797)


Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (July 20, 1721 – December 11, 1797), his first name was also sometimes written Joseph-Gaspard. He was a military engineer and a political figure in Lower Canada. During the Seven Years' War he proved himself to be an outstanding officer and was one of only a few colonial officers held in high esteem by the Marquis de Montcalm. In recognition of his military service, in 1759 he was made a Chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis. In 1763, after
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Gustave Dugazon


Gustave Dugazon (real name Alexandre Louis Gustave Gourgaud, 1 February 1781 – 12 September 1829) was a French classical composer. A contemporary of Boieldieu, Méhul, Kreutzer, Dugazon was the son of singer Louise Rosalie Lefebvre and actor Jean-Henri Gourgaud, called Dugazon. He was also the first cousin of General Baron Gaspard Gourgaud (1783–1852). Born in Paris and gifted at music, Dugazon entered the Conservatoire de Paris in Berton's harmony class and studied composition with Gossec. In 1806, he obtained the first second
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Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière


he married in 1856. His father, Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, was a pioneer of early photography (the first man to photograph the Acropolis, in 1839) who made a series of daguerreotypes while on a Grand Tour through Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Henri-Gustave's mother was Julie-Christine, the youngest daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, who inherited the seigneury of Lotbinière, in 1828. His parents' marriage was not a happy one,
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Grandes écoles


-constructeurs des vaisseaux royaux established in 1741). Five military engineering academies and graduate schools of artillery were established in the 17th century in France, such as the école de l'artillerie de Douai (established in 1697) and the later école du génie de Mézières (established in 1748), wherein mathematics, chemistry and sciences were already a major part of the curriculum taught by first-rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre-François Lacroix, Siméon Denis Poisson, Gaspard
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Gaspard Adolphe Chatin


Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813 – 13 January 1901) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist who was born in Isère, and died in Les Essarts-le-Roi. He was the first to prove that goiter was related of iodine deficiencies. He studied at the Faculté de Médecine in Paris and received his doctorate in May 1840. In 1841, he became Chief Pharmacist of the Beaujon Hospital in Paris. and in 1859, at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. He taught botany at the Ecole Superieure
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Léon Guignard


Jean Louis Léon Guignard (13 April 1852 in Mont-sous-Vaudrey – 7 March 1928 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and botanist. In 1882 he received his doctorate of sciences in Paris, and afterwards served as a professor of botany at the Faculty of Sciences of Lyon. In 1887 he succeeded Gaspard Adolphe Chatin as chair of botany at the Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie in Paris. From 1900 to 1910 he was dean to the faculty of pharmacy. In 1899 he was named president of the Académie des sciences.
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot


the elder brother of statesman Hippolyte Carnot and the uncle of Marie François Sadi Carnot, who would serve as President of France from 1887 to 1894. At the age of 16, Sadi Carnot became a cadet in the École Polytechnique in Paris, where his classmates included Michel Chasles and Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis. The École Polytechnique was intended to train engineers for military service, but its professors included such eminent scientists as André-Marie Ampère, François Arago, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Louis Jacques Thénard and Siméon Denis Poisson,
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Louis de Chantemerle


Gaspard Laurent Louis Jacquelot de Chantemerle (16 February 1818 – 12 February 1893) was a French magistrate and politician who was Senator of Allier from 1876 to 1885. Gaspard Laurent Louis Jacquelot de Chantemerle was born in Coulanges, Allier, on 16 February 1818. His parents were Gaspard Louis Jacquelot de Chantemerle (1783–1818) and Marie Antoinette Préveraud de La Boutresse. He married twice, but had no children. His first wife, whom he married on 27 December 1854, was Alix de Saint Phalle (1832–71). His second
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François de Coligny d'Andelot


François d'Andelot de Coligny (18 April 1521, Châtillon-sur-Loing - 27 May 1569, Saintes, Charente-Maritime) was one of the leaders of French Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion. The son of Gaspard I de Coligny, he was the younger brother of Odet, cardinal de Châtillon and Gaspard de Coligny the admiral. He first gained military experience in the Italian Wars, and so distinguished himself at the battle of Ceresole (1544) that Louis de Bourbon, still comte d'Enghien at that time,
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis


Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term "travail" (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance. Coriolis was born in Paris in 1792. In 1808 he sat the entrance exam and was placed
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Gustave Crauck


Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauck (or Crauk; July 16, 1827 – November 17, 1905) was a French sculptor with a long distinguished career. He was born and died at Valenciennes, where a special museum for his works was erected in his honor. Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, Crauck took the Prix de Rome in 1851. Little known to the world at large during his long life, he ranks among the best modern sculptors of France. At Paris his Coligny monument is in the rue de Rivoli
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Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre


Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre (16 August 1688 at Dijon – 16 March 1781 at the Hôtel Matignon, Paris), was a French noble, descendant of a family which traced its origins to the 12th century. His chief title was that of Marquis of Cruzy and Vauvillers, later 1st Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, a new creation which elevated him to the Peerage of France. He was Constable, hereditary Grand-Master of Dauphiné and Marshal of France. He had a successful military career in the armies of Louis XV
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis


considered a classic on the subject. Coriolis's name began to appear in the meteorological literature at the end of the 19th century, although the term "Coriolis force" was not used until the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the name Coriolis has become strongly associated with meteorology, but all major discoveries about the general circulation and the relation between the pressure and wind fields were made without knowledge about Gaspard Gustave Coriolis. Coriolis became professor of mechanics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1829. Upon the death
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Adolphe Monod


Adolphe-Louis-Frédéric-Théodore Monod (21 January 1802 – 6 April 1856), was a French Protestant churchman. His elder brother was Frédéric Monod. He was born in Copenhagen, where his father, Jean Monod (Sept. 5, 1765 - April 23, 1836; himself the eldest son of pastor Gaspard Joël Monod /1717-1782/ and his wife Suzanne Madeleine Puerari /1739-1799/), was a pastor of the French Reformed church and where Jean Monod met his wife and consequently Adolph's mother, Louise-
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Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682-1756)


Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (October 3, 1682 – March 23, 1756), was Louis XV's Chief Engineer of New France. He is recognised as the father of the first truly Canadian architecture. In 2006, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designated him a person of national historic importance. It highlighted his contribution to the development of New France through the quality, variety, importance and scope of his work in the fields of military engineering, civil and religious architecture, and urban planning. Baptised
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Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen


Kaiserswerth in 1702. Prince William Louis left three sons, who divided the Nassau territories on 31 March 1659 divided area: John Louis received Ottweiler, Gustav Adolph kept Saarbrücken and Walrad received Usingen and became the founder of a new branch. Walrad was elevated to the rank of prince in 1688. After his death in 1702, he was succeeded as Prince of Nassau-Usingen by his son William Henry. From 1659, the residence of the Usingen branch of House of Nassau was in the town of Usingen in the Taunus mountains
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Châteaufort, Yvelines


Châteaufort () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located south of Versailles, and southwest of Paris. Châteaufort inhabitants are named "Castelfortain". The commune is named after the existence of three fortified castles during the Middle Ages; indeed, "château fort" means "fortified castle" in French. On August 19, 1913, ahead of the Châteaufort aerodrome, the French aviator Adolphe Pégoud became the first man to jump from a plane using
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Gaspard Mermillod


, Albert de Mun, Louis Milcent, and Henri Lorin; Austrian: Karl von Vogelsang and Gustave Blome; and German: Franz Kuefstein) whose work on the "social question" form the base of the encyclical of Leo XIII, "Rerum novarum". In March 1891, Cardinal Mermillod, resigned the pastoral government, of the Diocese of Lausanne and Geneva, and Monsignor Joseph Déruaz was named his successor. Upon this resignation, he relocated to Rome, where he eventually died on February 23, 1892. He was
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Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière


Pierre-Gustave-Gaspard Joly de Lotbinière (born February 5, 1798 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, died June 8, 1865 in Paris) was a French businessman and amateur daguerreotypist, born citizen of the Republic of Geneva, and married to a Canadian seigneuress. Famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens and some ancient Egyptian monuments, he is also the father of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, prime minister of Quebec from 1878 to 1879. Pierre-Gustave Joly was the son of Antoine Joly
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Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682-1756)


, Marquis de Régusse; President of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence; grandson of Charles de Grimaldi-Régusse. From his family papers kept at the National Archives of Canada, Chaussegros de Léry enjoyed the patronage of various high-ranking relatives of King Louis XV. Throughout his life he kept up a friendly personal correspondence with Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, and the Duc de Penthièvre, who all expressed their affection for him and his family and assured of him of their
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Adolphe Danziger De Castro


Adolphe Danziger De Castro, also known as Gustav Adolf Danziger, Adolph Danziger, Adolphe Danziger and Adolphe De Castro, (November 6, 1859 – March 4, 1959) was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories. Adolphe Danziger De Castro was born Abram Dancygier, the son of Symcha Jakub Dancygier and Chaja Szarka, near Dobrzyń nad Wisłą, Congress Poland. He claimed that the ancestor of the family Dancygier was a Portuguese Jew named Israel De Castro who migrated from Portugal to
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Louis Ratisbonne


Louis Gustave Fortuné Ratisbonne (29 July 1827 – 24 September 1900) was a French man of letters. He was born at Strasbourg. He was the son of the banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim (daughter of Salomon Oppenheim), and the nephew of the priests Marie Theodor Ratisbonne and Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne. He studied at the school of his native town and at the College Henry IV in Paris. He was connected with the "Journal des Debats" from 1853 to 1876; became librarian of the palace
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Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken


older brother John Louis had been regent. In 1660, Gustav Adolf and his brothers John Louis and Walrad divided the territory and Gustav Adolf took up the reign of the counties of Saarbrücken and Saarwerden. He set about rebuilding the war-ravaged country, brought back refugees and recruited settlers for agriculture and skilled workers for the glass industry in Klarenthal. Adolf could not resist King Louis XIV's "reunion policy". He refused to swear the required oath of fealty from the king, even when he was captured in 1673 by
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List of fountains in Paris


-Joseph Espercieux, Marquis, sculptors. Fontaine des Orateurs Sacrés or Fontaine Saint-Sulpice. Place Saint-Sulpice. 1843-1848. Louis Visconti, architect. Fontaine de l'Observatoire, Jardin de l'Observatoire, 1867-74. Gabriel Davioud, architect, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, principal sculptor. Bassin Soufflot, or bassin de la place Edmond Rostand. 1862-63. Place Edmond Rostande. Gabriel Davioud, architect. Sculptural group added to fountain in 1884. Gustave-Adolphe-Crunk, sculptor. Fontaine de Eugène
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Adrienne de La Fayette


de La Tour-Maubourg: Georges de Lafayette married Emilie de Tracy, daughter of the Comte de Tracy, in 1802; they had three daughters and two sons: Natalie, who married Adolphe Perrier, Malthilde, who married Maurice de Pusy (1799–1864), (son of Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy), Clémentine, who married "Gustave" Auguste Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont, Oscar Thomas Gilbert, marquis de La Fayette (1815–1881), liberal politician, and Edmond. Virginie married Louis de Lasteyrie on
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Amédée Girod de l'Ain


Louis Gaspard Amédée, baron Girod de l'Ain (18 October 1781 – 27 December 1847) was a French lawyer and politician who became Minister of Public Education and Religious Affairs in 1832. Louis Gaspard Amédée baron Girod de l'Ain was born in Gex, Ain, on 18 October 1781. His father was Baron Jean-Louis Girod (1753-1839). His father had been appointed mayor of Gex in 1780 by Louis XVI of France. His mother was dame Louise-Claudine-Armande Fabry. He was the oldest of
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Gustave Rolland


et Chaussées. Their son was Georges Rolland, born in Paris on 23 January 1852. During the Franco-Prussian War he served as a battalion commander in the Siege of Paris (1870–71). He was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honour on 7 January 1871. Gustave Rolland died on 23 April 1871 in Versailles, Yvelines. His son, Georges Rolland, became an engineer in the Corps des mines in 1877, and later became president of the Société des Aciéries de Longwy and a member of the board of
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Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg


, Duchesse de Coligny, (b. 1626). She was the widow Gaspard IV de Coligny, the son of Gaspard III de Coligny. Her first husband had died at Charenton-le-Pont on 9 February 1649 during the Fronde. The exact date of Elisabeth Angelique's wedding to Christian Louis is not known with certainty, but it was probably on 3 March 1664. She died on in Paris. Both marriages were childless. When Christian Louis I died, he was succeeded by his nephew Frederick William, the eldest
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Grignan


. The Adhémars were up-and-coming so their castle necessarily had to follow. Beginning in the 13th century, the Adhémars rose from Barons to Dukes, finally being elevated to the rank of Counts by Henry II, King of France. Grignan Castle progressively became an imposing stronghold. The Adhémar family line ended when Louis Adhémar died without an heir in 1559. The titles and possessions of Louis Adhémar, Count of Grignan, fell upon his nephew Gaspard de Castellane, son of Louis' sister Blanche Adhémar. Although the
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Armand Doria


conservative, and he was influenced by the works of Joseph de Maistre, Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald and Antoine Eugène Genoud. Count Doria was a patron of the arts and art collector. For example, he was a patron to Adolphe-Félix Cals, who stayed in his castle for an extended period of time. Other long-term guests were Gustave-Henri Colin and Victor Vignon. Count Doria also invited Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet. Count Doria was the owner of "The Roman Campagna,
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Oflag IV-C


with Germany. Population was approximately 254 at the start of the early winter that year. On 19 January 1945 six French Generals — Lieutenant-General Jean Adolphe Louis Robert Flavigny, Major-General Louis Léon Marie André Buisson, Major-General Arsène Marie Paul Vauthier, Brigadier-General Albert Joseph Daine, and Brigadier-General René Jacques Mortemart de Boisse — were brought from the camp at Königstein to Colditz Castle. Major-General Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny was killed on the way from Königstein to Colditz Castle. On 5 February
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Adolphe de Leuven


Adolphe de Leuven (30 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing. He was the illegitimate son of Adolph Ribbing, who was involved in the assassination of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792, and Jeanne-Claude Billard. He took his name as a variation of that of his paternal grandmother, Eva Löwen. He produced over 170 plays and librettos, with operatic settings by Adam including "Le postillon de Lonjumeau", Clapisson and
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Gaspard II de Coligny


Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon (; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572) was a French nobleman and admiral, best remembered as a disciplined Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion and a close friend and advisor to King Charles IX of France. Coligny came of a noble family of Burgundy. His family traced their descent from the 11th century, and in the reign of Louis XI, were in the service of the King of France. His father, Gaspard I de Coligny, known as the 'Marshal of
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Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière


married in Montreal Julie-Christine Chartier de Lotbinière, daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière. The seigneury of Lotbinière near Quebec City was her dowry. After his wedding, he unofficially added "de Lotbinière" to his name. The couple spent the first two years of their marriage in Épernay, where in 1829 their first son, Henri-Gustave, was born, then lived from 1830 in Lotbinière. There, Joly managed his wife's possessions as well as his own
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Gaspard II de Coligny


1543 Coligny distinguished himself, and was wounded at the sieges of Montmédy and Bains. In 1544 he served in the Italian campaigns under the Count of Enghien, King Charles VIII, King Louis XII, King Francis I and was knighted on the Field of Ceresole. Returning to France, he took part in different military operations; and having been made colonel-general of the infantry (April 1547), exhibited great capacity and intelligence as a military reformer. That year he married Charlotte de Laval (d. 1568). He
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Vincent de Rochemore


his side of their dispute and succeeded in having Kerlerec recalled. The former governor was sent into exile. Vincent Gaspard Pierre de Rochemore was born in Languedoc, France as the fifth son of Henri de Rochemore (d. 1739), Chevalier de St. Louis and seigneur de la Dévèze, and his wife Marie-Blanche de Ricard, were nobles. His father was a lieutenant of the ships of the king. As a younger son, Vincent would not inherit the title or estate. He entered the French military, becoming an
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Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay


married Marie Louise Amélie de Croÿ (1748–1772), princesse de Croÿ-Molembais, daughter of Prince Guillaume François de Croÿ et Princess Anne Françoise Amélie de Trazegnies, on 31 December 1770. Earlier in 1770 Pierre Gaspard had been raised to the title of comte by Louis XV. Marie-Louise and Pierre had one child, Albert-Jean-François-Louis-Marie Grimaud (15 June 1772 – 1843). (Albert was later called "the beau d'Orsay", and was in turn father of the dandy Alfred
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Albert Gaspard Grimod


Jean-François-Louis-Marie-Albert-Gaspard Grimod (15 June 1772 – 26 December 1843), "comte d'Orsay", was a Bonapartist general and nobleman. He was the son of the collector Pierre Gaspard Grimod, comte d'Orsay (1748–1809) and his first wife, Princess Marie Louise Amélie de Croÿ-Molembais, (1748–1772), daughter of Prince Guillaume François de Croÿ and Anne Françoise Amélie de Trazegnies. She died in giving birth to him and his father began travelling Europe for consolation, gathering famous
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Louis Charles Delescluze


of Adolphe Thiers was emptied and demolished on 16 May. On 21 May Delescluze and the Commune members were debating whether to punish the Commune military leader, Gustave Cluseret for incompetence or treason when news came that the French Army had entered Paris, through a section of the city defenses that had inadvertently been left unmanned. The next day, Delescluze issued a proclamation, calling upon all Parisians to join in the fight against the army. Delescluze did not have any experience as a soldier, but he knew how to write stirring prose.
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Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers


Auguste Gaspard Louis, Baron Boucher-Desnoyers (19 December 1779 in Paris – 16 February 1857), was one of the most eminent of modern French engravers. His father held the office of commissary-general in the military household of Monsieur, afterwards Louis XVIII, but through unforeseen misfortunes young Desnoyers was compelled to choose for himself a career. He elected entrance into the corps of engineers, but he devoted every moment he could spare from the study of mathematics to drawing. At the age of twelve, he was introduced
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Pierre De Geyter


the Marxist war opponents influenced by Bolshevism, who would later form the communist party. In 1904, Pierre started court proceedings against Adolphe, but Gustave Delory (mayor of Lille by then) supported Adolphe's claim (though in an 1888 meeting with the Ghent socialist leader Edward Anseele he had identified Pierre De Geyter as the author) and, as a result, Pierre was unable to prove his authorship. He lost the case in 1914. At the beginning of 1916, however, during the First World War, Adolphe De
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Louis Brière de l'Isle


governor to cease military operations pushing east of Kita. Within weeks Brière de l'Isle ordered his military protege Lieutenant Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes to launch a punitive expedition to the Niger and seize the small town at Bamako. Brière de l'Isle was recalled on 11 March 1881 in response. By the end of 1881 Senegal had its first civilian governor, Marie Auguste Deville de Perière. While it fell to Borgnis-Desbordes, Joseph Gallieni and Louis Archinard to lead the conquest of the middle Niger region, Brière de l'Isle began the advance
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Adolphe Guillaumat


captain and was transferred to the 147th infantry regiment. In 1903 he was appointed professor of military history at St. Cyr, and later became lecturer on infantry tactics at the École de Guerre. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1907 and colonel in 1910. In January 1913, he was appointed Director of Infantry, and obtained the rank of Brigadier General in October of that year. At the start of World War I, he was chief of Minister of War Adolphe Messimy's military cabinet. When the latter left office,
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Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau


He became premier in 1879 after the fall of the minority government of Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière. He won the 1881 election, but resigned on July 29, 1882 to seek election to the federal House of Commons. He won a by-election held on August 16, 1882. Chapleau planned to quit politics in 1885 when Louis Riel was sentenced to be hanged but decided to stay, fearing it would only inflame the situation. After Riel was hanged, he was attacked by Quebecers who accused him of the death
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Gustave-Henri Jossot


is mainly remembered for the mark he left on several special issues of Paris journals, most notably "l'Assiette au beurre," contributors to which included Kees van Dongen, Félix Vallotton, František Kupka, Steinlen, Adolphe Willette, and Jacques Villon. Much of his work lampooned the bourgeoisie, as can be seen from the titles of the illustrated books he produced: "Artistes et Bourgeois" (Paris: Louis Michaud 1896); "Jockey-Club Sardines" (1897); "Minces de trognes" (Paris:
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Château de Saint-Hubert


The Château de Saint-Hubert was a royal château built by order of Louis XV in Perray-in-Yvelines (now in the department of Yvelines), for use while he was hunting in the nearby forest (Saint Hubert is the patron saint of hunters). The design was entrusted to Ange-Jacques Gabriel, designer of the École Militaire, and the building was under construction from 1755 to 1758. Saint-Hubert was originally intended as a simple hunting lodge, to allow the King to rest during and after
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Louise de Maisonblanche


Louise Mary-Antoinette Josèphe Jane de Bourbon-Maisonblanche, Baroness of La Queue (Paris, 17 June 1676 – La Queue-les-Yvelines, 12 September 1718), was an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and Claude de Vin des Œillets, the called "Mademoiselle des Œillets", who was the lady-in-waiting to Madame de Montespan, Louis' long term mistress. Born in Paris in 1676, she was one of many illegitimate children that Louis XIV had. She was officially declared "
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Versailles, Yvelines


to Versailles, until October 1789, when a Parisian mob forced Louis XVI and the royal family to move to Paris. Versailles again became the unofficial capital of France from March 1871, when Adolphe Thiers' government took refuge in Versailles, fleeing the insurrection of the Paris Commune, until November 1879, when the newly elected government and parliament returned to Paris. During the various periods when government affairs were conducted from Versailles, Paris remained the official capital of France. Versailles was made the "préfecture" of the Seine-et
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Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken


Gustav Adolf of Nassau-Saarbrücken (27 March 1632, Saarbrücken – 9 October 1677, Strasbourg) was Count of Saarbrücken and Major General at the Rhine of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. He was the third son of Count William Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590 — 22 August 1640) and Countess Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach (1595–1651), who named him after king Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, who was still alive at the time. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the
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Conservatoire de Paris


Under Auber, composition teachers included Adolphe Adam, Halévy, and Ambroise Thomas; piano teachers, Louise Farrenc, Henri Herz, and Antoine François Marmontel; violin teachers, Jean-Delphin Alard and Charles Dancla; and cello teachers, Pierre Chevillard and Auguste Franchomme. In 1852, Camille Urso, who studied with Lambert Massart, became the first female student to win a prize on violin. The Conservatory Instrument Museum, founded in 1861, was formed from the instrument collection of Louis Clapisson. The French music historian Gustave Chouquet became
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John Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler


over the reign to his son Frederick Louis. John Louis then went to the Nassau territories East of the Rhine. When in 1675, Frederick of Nassau-Weilburg died, John Louis took up guardianship of his children and the regency of Nassau-Weilburg. When in 1677 Gustav Adolph died, John Louis became the senior member of the House of Nassau. John Louis was in the service of the Upper Rhenish Circle and founded a new imperial army. He was appointed General Sergeant and in 1682, he was promoted to General
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Gaspard Adolphe Chatin


de Pharmacie, which he directed from 1874. In April 1886, there were student riots at the school, and his dismissal was demanded. He retired in August 1886 with the title of honorary director. He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1853) and the Académie des Sciences (1874). He was a member of the Société Botanique de France, which he led in 1862, 1878, 1886 and 1896. In 1878, he became an Officer of the Legion d'honneur. His son was the
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Société des observateurs de l'homme


Boulard - Simon-Jérôme Bourlet de Vauxcelles - Pierre-Roland-François Butet de La Sarthe - Guillaume de Sainte-Croix - Adamance Coray - Frédéric Cuvier - Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison - Joseph-Marie de Gérando - Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze - Joseph de Maimieux - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu - André Marie Constant Duméril - Antoine-François Fourcroy - Marie-Nicolas-Silvestre Guillon-Pastel - Jean Noël Hallé - Jean Itard - Gaspard-André Jauffret - Louis-François Jauffret - Antoine-
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Gustave Fourreau


Gustave Fourreau was a Général de brigade of the French Army and Commandant of the French Foreign Legion. Gustave engaged as a volunteer at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr, 129th promotion « Croix de Provence » on October 14, 1942. He escaped from France by Spain, on August 15, 1943. Nominated to a Caporal-chef (Senior Corporal) on June 1, 1943. He disembarked in Morocco, 87th company garrisoned in Rabat on December 15, 1943 where he was promoted to the rank of Sous
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Battle of Genola


The brigadiers were Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean, Jean Louis Gaspard Josnet de Laviolais and Pierre Poinsot de Chansac. Lemoine's 7,829-strong division included the 5th Light and 17th Line Demi-brigades, the 34th Line under Philibert Fressinet, the 63rd Line under Gaspard Amédée Gardanne, the 74th Line under Bertrand Clausel and 114 detached hussars. The 20th Light under Jean Mathieu Seras was not engaged nor was the 30th Line. Richepanse's 1,200 troopers were from the 1st, 14th and 21st Cavalry and the 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 14th Chasseurs
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Gaspard Michaud


Louis Victor Potiez (1806–1870) he published in 1835 the "Galerie des mollusques", a catalogue of the molluscs in the collection of the museum of Douai. In 1839 he became a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, mainly because of his scientific contributions rather than because of his military service. He left the army in 1844, and started work as a professor and director of the Michaud Institute in Lyons. From then on he applied himself completely to the study of molluscan fossils. He published several papers (1855, 1862
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Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière


Fresnoy, served as major-general in the French victory at the Battle of Sainte-Foy, for which he was rewarded the Grand Cross Order of Saint Louis. After the capitulation, Lotbiniere left his wife and newly born daughter in Canada and returned to France with his 12-year-old son, cadet Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière. Having lost his land in America, that had amounted to 150,000 acres, he unsuccessfully tried to resume his military career in France. His thoughts turned again to his
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Maison royale de Saint-Louis


The Maison Royale de Saint-Louis was a boarding school for girls set up in 1684 at Saint-Cyr (what is now the commune of Saint-Cyr-l'École, Yvelines) in France by king Louis XIV at the request of his second wife, Madame de Maintenon, who wanted a school for girls from impoverished noble families. The establishment lost its leading role on the deaths of Louis and then Maintenon, but it nevertheless marked an evolution in female education under the Ancien Régime. Its notable students included Maintenon's
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Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers


the Republic?" asked the First Consul, in very bad humour. "Yes," said Lucien. "Well, then let him pay if he wishes to be replaced," abruptly replied Napoleon. The council of revision, however, fortunately deemed him unfit for military service, although his constitution left nothing to be desired. From this time he rose rapidly to the first rank in his adopted art, and in 1806 gained the large gold medal for his engraving of the celebrated antique cameo of 'Ptolemy II.
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Creditors (play)


she wants Adolph to call her "Pussy", because, she says, that might cause her to get up a "pretty little blush" for him, if he would like. With Gustav eavesdropping, Adolph becomes unpleasant, as he applies the ideas that he has been given by Gustav. Adolph also expresses his insecurities, and then, set off by a confused exchange, he storms out of the room in frustration. Now Gustav, the ex-husband, re-enters — with Adolph, as planned,
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Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny


Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny (2 November 1754 in Luçon – 10 July 1794 in Combrand) was a French officer and Vendéen general. Bernard de Marigny was a cousin and friend of Louis Marie de Lescure, whose wife Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein wrote the following about him : "He was a handsome man, of high stature and great physical strength ; he was gay, spiritual, loyal and brave. I had never seen someone more obliging : he was always ready to please others ; to such an extent
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Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière


the Quebec City in 1748, he was the son of Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière, and his wife Louise-Madeleine (1726–1809), daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682–1756), engineer-in-chief of New France. He was one of a distinguished group of first cousins that included The Hon. Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, François-Joseph Chaussegros, Vicomte de Léry, Mme Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu, The Hon. Louis-René Chaussegros de Léry and The Hon
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Creditors (play)


become, at Gustav’s suggestion, almost epileptic. Gustav is making Adolph weaker, while, ironically, Gustav presents himself as providing life lessons in how to be strong in one’s relationship. The audience begins to suspect that Gustav is, in fact, Tekla’s ex-husband. Adolph had stolen Tekla away from Gustav, and then Tekla wrote a novel that was a "roman a clef" with the main character based on Gustav. Tekla’s novel portrays Gustav as an idiot. So, Gustav is motivated for
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Creditors (play)


him to be a sculptor, then Gustav persuades him that sculpting isn’t right for him after all. Also, Adolph loves and trusts his wife, Tekla, he credits her for educating him, and he was happy in his marriage — until Gustav changes his mind about those things. To the audience Gustav seems to be a devious character, who, Iago-like, is stirring up Adolph’s insecurities and endangering the relationship between Adolph and his wife. Adolph’s fears boil up at one point, causing him to
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Nicolas Grollier de Servière


, many intricate pieces of lathe-work in ivory and wood, and an improved version of Agostino Ramelli's reading wheel that allowed many books to be read by means of a rotating wheel. Eventually even Louis XIV paid a visit to Grollier de Servière. After his death in 1689, his son Gaspard (1646–1716) and then his grandson Gaspard II (1676–1745) continued to display the contents of the cabinet, and his son published a book cataloguing the curiosities: "Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathématique et de Mécanique, ou
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Versailles, Yvelines


in 1975. A new town founded at the will of King Louis XIV, Versailles was the "de facto" capital of the Kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789, before becoming the cradle of the French Revolution. After having lost its status of royal city, it became the "préfecture" (regional capital) of the Seine-et-Oise département in 1790, then of Yvelines in 1968. It is also a Roman Catholic diocese. Versailles is historically known for numerous treaties such as
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Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow


Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg [-Güstrow] (26 February 1633 – 6 October 1695) was the last ruler of Mecklenburg-Güstrow from 1636 until his death and last Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Ratzeburg from 1636 to 1648. Gustav Adolph was born at the ducal residence in Güstrow, the son of Duke John Albert II and his third wife Eleonore Marie (1600–1657), daughter of Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg. A minor upon his father's death in 1636, his uncle Duke Adolph Frederick
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Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye


The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the "département" of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris, France. Today, it houses the "musée d'Archéologie nationale" (National Museum of Archaeology). The first castle, named the "Grand Châtelet", was built on the site by Louis VI in 1124. The castle was expanded by Louis IX in the 1230s. Louis IX's chapelle Saint
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Philadelphes


Simon François Bernard, another émigré, on trial. The Philadelphians defended both Bernard's actions and the assassination of tyrants. Indeed Adolphe Talandier, Gustave Jourdain, Joseph Holyoake and Félix Pyat (all Philadelphians) were the only people who spoke at his funeral a few years later. They also laid on a banquet (under the name of the Lodge) for Paolo Tibaldi when he arrived in London after serving a prison sentence for an attempt on the life of Napoeon III. Louis Blanc, Talandier and Gustave Flourens (another Philadelphian
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Château de Sales


16th centuries. It was destroyed in 1630 on the orders of Louis XIII, during his invasion of Savoy. This was in reprisal for the resistance of Louis Sales, younger brother of Saint Francis de Sales, captain-governor of the Château d'Annecy. The latter had refused to surrender the Annecy castle to the King's troops, commanded by Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon. In 1672, three nephews of Louis Sales, including Monseigneur Charles-Auguste de Sales, Prince-bishop of Geneva, built a chapel
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Louis Poirson


On September 24, 2002, Louis Poirson was sentenced to life imprisonment. On February 2, 2005, the trial of Louis Poirson began at the cour d'assises in Yvelines, Versailles for the murders of Lucie Pham-Ngoc-Bich and Charlotte Berson and for the rapes of Adeline and Clémence. Marie-Thérèse de Givry was the general counsel. Emmanuel Daoud was the lawyer of the Berson family. The defense of Louis Poirson was provided by Sophie Gourmelon. In February 2005, Louis Poirson was sentenced to life imprisonment, with
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Pierre-Gustave Staal


Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (2 September 1817 in Vertus – 19 October 1882 in Ivry), was a French artist , Lithographer , Illustrator and draughtsman. He entered the workshop of painter Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1838, and then learned engraving with Adolphe Varin in 1845. He provided the artwork for several engraved works ("Les Femmes de M. de Balzac, types, caractères et portraits" 1851; "Chants et chansons" by Pierre Dupont, 1851–59); for illustrated periodicals (
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André Mare


the Military Cross by King George V of England. At the end of the War, Mare returned quickly to his artistic work. In 1919, he was commissioned, along with Louis Süe and Gustave Louis Jaulmes, to design the decorations for the Champs-Elysees and the Arc-de-Triomphe to celebrate the first Bastille Day after the war. In 1919 he also joined with Lous Süe to create the "Compagnie des Arts Française", an interior design firm. He began producing designs for wallpapers, upholstery and other
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis


, Coriolis worked to extend the notions of kinetic energy and work to rotating systems. The first of his papers, "Sur le principe des forces vives dans les mouvements relatifs des machines" (On the principle of kinetic energy in the relative motion in machines), was read to the Académie des Sciences (Coriolis 1832). Three years later came the paper that would make his name famous, "Sur les équations du mouvement relatif des systèmes de corps" (On the equations of relative motion of a system of bodies
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Château de Gudanes


, the mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Louis-Gaspard de Sales died with only a daughter, Marie Thérèse Josephe, and upon his death bequeathed all his assets to his son-in-law, Louis-Guillaume-Antoine de Mengaud, Baron de la Hage. When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, the aristocracy were stripped of their titles and lands. Mengaud was arrested but died before he faced trial. Property belonging
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Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte


Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte (November 19, 1848 – October 4, 1918) was a Quebec physician and political figure. He represented Nicolet in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1907 to 1911. His name also appears as Gustave-Adolphe Turcotte. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East in 1848, the son of Joseph-Édouard Turcotte and Flore Buteau, and was educated at the Jesuit Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal and the Séminaire Saint-Joseph in Trois-Rivières
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Chateau St. Louis


General Louis de Buade de Frontenac. Frontenac died there in 1698. A new pavilion and two new wings were added from 1719 to 1723 by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry. The building was then severely damaged during the Siege of Quebec after which time it passed into British hands. The house was gradually rebuilt in sections over the next forty years. In the meantime the governors split their time between the St. Louis and a new building, called the New Chateau or Chateau Haldimand after governor Haldimand. The St. Louis was destroyed
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Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux


4 October 1805 in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Bas-Rhin, as the younger son of Lieutenant-General Baron Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux was a general of division in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. and grandfather, Christophe Claude d'Hastrel de Rivedoux, capitain-major of infantry and chevalier de Saint-Louis, survived the Siege of Pondicherry in 1760, during the Seven Years' War. He traveled the world for twenty years and took advantage of its military missions to draw and paint landscapes, scenes of
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Justin Pierre Marie Macquart


the Conseil régional du Nord-Pas-de-Calais. At this time he began intensive studies of Diptera examining the collections of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy, Gaspard Auguste Brullé and François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau in France. He also went to Hamburg where Wilhelm von Winthem had assembled the largest collection of Diptera in the world. At
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Creditors (play)


" (1890). Strindberg wrote: "Hedda Gabler is a bastard of Laura in "The Father" and Tekla in "Creditors"". This three-character play takes place in a parlor adjoined to a room in a seaside resort hotel. It begins with Adolph, an artist, sculpting a small nude female figure. With him is Adolph’s new friend, Gustav, who has been visiting for a week and filling Adolph’s weak and malleable mind with ideas: Adolph was a painter, until Gustave persuaded
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Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow


I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at first became regent at Güstrow, fiercely opposed by Gustav Adolph's mother. In 1654 he came of age and married Magdalene Sibylle, a daughter of Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp. Their marriage produced eleven children: The death of the only surviving son, the Hereditary Prince Charles, in 1688 at the age of 23, caused a succession crisis in Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Gustav Adolph's daughter Marie married her cousin Adolphus Frederick II of Mecklenburg, who after the death of his father-
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis


second of all the students entering that year, and in 1816, he became a tutor at the École Polytechnique, where he did experiments on friction and hydraulics. In 1829, Coriolis published a textbook, "Calcul de l'Effet des Machines" ("Calculation of the Effect of Machines"), which presented mechanics in a way that could readily be applied by industry. In this period, the correct expression for kinetic energy, "½mv", and its relation to mechanical work, became established. During the following years
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Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart


Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart (1600 – 26 December 1675) was a French nobleman and father of the "Marquise de Montespan". He was a friend of the French King Louis XIII. Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, was the son of Gaspard de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquis of Mortemart, and of Louise de Maure, "suo jure" Countess of Maure. His younger brother, Louis de Rochechouart de Mortemart, died without children in 1669. He spent a great part of his childhood with
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Pierre Beauchamp


Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, called "Charles" or Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation. Pierre Beauchamp was born at Versailles (Yvelines), into a family of French "dance masters" ("maîtres de danse"). He débuted at the court of Louis XIV at age 12, in 1648, in the "Ballet du dérèglement des passions". He was made director of
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Louis Gustave Vapereau


Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the "Dictionnaire universel des contemporains" and the "Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs". Born in Orléans, Louis Gustave Vapereau studied philosophy at the "École Normale Supérieure" from 1838 to 1843, writing his thesis on Pascal's "Pensées" under the supervision of Victor Cousin. He taught philosophy at Tours until the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852, when his republican principles cost him his
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Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines


The Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines (or CAMY) is a former administrative entity in the Yvelines département, near Paris. Administrative center: Magnanville. It was merged into the Communauté urbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise in January 2016. The "Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines" is located at the south-west of the département of Yvelines, around the Seine river and "Mantes-la-Jolie" city. When he was created in 1999, CAMY had 8 communes. In 2004,
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Leon Gaspard


Vitebsk, Belarus. He worked with Yehuda Pen, a well-known Jewish-Belarusian artist. Gaspard and Marc Chagall became friendly rivals over a girl named Bella Rosenfeld, who later became Chagall's wife. Gaspard pursued further studies in Odessa, and then his family sent him to Paris. He enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied for almost eight years. He also worked independently with William-Adolphe Bouguereau. While he was in Paris, his parents died, which cut off his allowance, and abruptly ended
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History of education in France


wherein mathematics, chemistry and sciences were already a major part of the curriculum taught by first rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Siméon Denis Poisson, Gaspard Monge. Statistical analysis of census data indicates the steady spread of universal, compulsory, elementary education. The highest growth rate was 1821-37 when cities welcomed schools. Growth rates slowed in 1837-67 as the movement reached thinly populated rural areas. By 1867-1906 the emphasis was on
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Jean Marc Gaspard Itard


Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (24 April 1774, Oraison, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 5 July 1838, Paris) was a French physician born in Provence. Without a university education and working at a bank, he was forced to enter the army during the French Revolution but presented himself as a physician at that time. After successfully working as an assistant physician at a military hospital in Soliers, in 1796 he was appointed deputy surgeon at Val-de-Grâce (Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de
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Jules Louis Lewal


Jules Louis Lewal (13 December 1823 – 22 January 1908) was a French general, who also wrote scripts like Stratégie de combat (translation: Combat strategy). He was born in Paris; entered the army in 1846; served in the Italian campaign of 1859, with the French troops in Mexico (1862), and, after cooperation with Adolphe Niel in the army reforms, in the Franco-Prussian War. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1874; became head of the Military Academy three years after;
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Château de Beaucens


, when it belonged then to Madame de Motteville stayed at the castle for the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain, on 9 June 1660 at the in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She compared it to the palace of the fairy Urgande. Prince Charles Louis Gaspard de Rohan-Rochefort, the 31st and last viscount, who lived there, had married his cousin, Marie Louise Joséphine de Rohan. He was extremely unpopular with the population of Bigorre.In 1792, during the French Revolution, he
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Company of the Blessed Sacrament


wife to the Carmelite Convent; Henri de Pichery, officer of Louis XIII's household; Jacques Adhemar de Monteil de Grignan, a future bishop, and Philippe d'Angoumois, a Capuchin. Among those who soon joined it, should be mentioned Père Suffren, a Jesuit, confessor to both Louis XIII and Marie de' Medici; also both the son and the grandson of Gaspard de Coligny, the Protestant admiral, as well as Charles de Condren, the second Superior General of the French Oratory, and founder of the College of
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René Edward De Russy


Kentucky, and one in Washington, D.C. The latter four were all built during the American Civil War. All of the forts were named for two brothers, René Edward and his younger brother Louis Gustave De Russy. Louis (also known as Lewis) graduated in 1814 from the United States Military Academy, two years after René but on an accelerated schedule. An engineer and career officer, he was assigned to Red River outposts in Louisiana in 1826 and made much of his career in that state. At advanced ages, they
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis


). Coriolis's papers do not deal with the atmosphere or even the rotation of the Earth, but with the transfer of energy in rotating systems like waterwheels. Coriolis discussed the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference and he divided these forces into two categories. The second category contained the force that would eventually bear his name. A detailed discussion may be found in Dugas. In 1835, he published a mathematical work on collisions of spheres: "Théorie Mathématique des Effets du Jeu de Billard",
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Gaspard de Saulx


Gaspard de Saulx, sieur de Tavannes (1509–1573) was a French Roman Catholic military leader during the Italian Wars and the French Wars of Religion. He was born in Dijon. As a page of King Francis I, he was made prisoner by the Imperials in the Battle of Pavia (1525). Later he distinguished himself in the War of Provence and in Battle of Ceresole of 1544. In 1552 he conquered Metz and had an important role in the French victory at the Battle of Renty (1554). After the
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Adolph de Meyer


in Dresden, Adolphus Meyer was the son of a German Jewish father and Scottish mother—Adolphus Louis Meyer and his wife, the former Adele Watson. In 1893, he joined the Royal Photographic Society and moved to London in 1895. He used the surnames Meyer, von Meyer, de Meyer, de Meyer-Watson, and Meyer-Watson at various times in his life. From 1897, he was known as Baron Adolph Edward Sigismond de Meyer, though some contemporary sources list him as Baron Adolph von Meyer and Baron
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