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  • Thumbnail for Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas
    Mathieu, comte Dumas (23 November 1753 – 16 October 1837) was a French general. Born in Montpellier, France, of a noble family, he joined the French army...
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  • Thumbnail for Concordia, Ede
    Concordia is a smock mill in Ede, the Netherlands, which is maintained in working order. The mill is listed as Rijksmonument number 14469. The mill was...
    3 KB (163 words) - 05:03, 27 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure
    Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃaʁl dypɔ̃ də lœʁ]; 27 February 1767 – 3 March 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman. He...
    7 KB (516 words) - 08:12, 5 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis
    Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis (19 February 1778, Aix-en-Provence – 5 August 1858) was a French diplomat and statesman. He was the son of the jurist Jean-Étienne-Marie...
    1 KB (110 words) - 06:41, 24 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for François Hemsterhuis
    François Hemsterhuis (27 December 1721 – 7 July 1790) was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy. The son of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he was born...
    3 KB (444 words) - 03:13, 22 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Princes of Conti
    Prince of Conti (French: prince de Conti) was a French noble title, assumed by a cadet branch of the princely house of Bourbon-Condé. The title derives...
    3 KB (344 words) - 03:43, 30 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Antoine Chanzy
    Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan øʒɛn alfʁɛd ʃɑ̃zi]; 18 March 1823 – 4 January 1883) was a French general, notable for his successes...
    7 KB (700 words) - 15:52, 15 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Valentin Conrart
    Valentin Conrart (French: [valɑ̃tɛ̃ kɔ̃ʁaʁ]; 1603 – 23 September 1675) was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant...
    2 KB (246 words) - 11:39, 3 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Charles Pinot Duclos
    Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des...
    7 KB (784 words) - 00:38, 6 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for K. Diegem Sport
    Koninklijke Diegem Sport is a Belgian association football club based in Diegem, Flemish Brabant currently playing in the third amateur division. The club...
    3 KB (140 words) - 19:32, 16 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Charles-Jean-François Hénault
    Charles-Jean-François Hénault (8 February 1685 – 24 November 1770) was a French writer and historian. Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean...
    6 KB (791 words) - 17:27, 24 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Georg Ludwig von Maurer
    Georg Ludwig Maurer, from 1831 Georg Ludwig von Maurer (2 November 1790 – 9 May 1872) was a German statesman and legal historian from the Electoral Palatinate...
    5 KB (588 words) - 09:29, 12 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Winklarn, Austria
    Winklarn is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. Winklarn lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 18.61 percent of...
    3 KB (70 words) - 10:46, 25 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Antoine-Marin Lemierre
    Antoine-Marin Lemierre (12 January 1733 – 4 July 1793) was a French dramatist and poet. He was born in Paris, into a poor family, but found a patron in...
    2 KB (224 words) - 20:07, 14 April 2022
  • Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues...
    3 KB (264 words) - 00:02, 8 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle
    Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, (3 September 1766 – 26 March 1855), was a French historian and journalist. Called Lacretelle le jeune to distinguish...
    4 KB (569 words) - 10:39, 23 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Königsbronn
    Königsbronn is a municipality in the district of Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Königsbronn (Koenigsbronn) as an administrative community...
    11 KB (1,271 words) - 22:58, 23 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Marin le Roy de Gomberville
    Marin le Roy, sieur du Parc et de Gomberville (1600 – 14 June 1674) was a French poet and novelist. He was born at Paris, and at fourteen he produced a...
    3 KB (308 words) - 10:45, 1 January 2023
  • The higher region of the Alps were long left to the exclusive attention of the inhabitants of the adjoining valleys, even when Alpine travellers (as distinguished...
    8 KB (1,065 words) - 15:17, 6 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Droz
    François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (French pronunciation: [dro]; 31 December 1773 – 9 November 1850) was a reactionary French writer on ethics, political science...
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