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    (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur [ɔʁdʁ nɑsjɔnal də la leʒjɔ̃ dɔnœʁ]), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion...
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  • Charles Bouvard (1572 in Montoire– 25 October 1658) was a French chemist and physician. Bouvard served as the physician of France's King Louis XIII (as...
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    du Plessis-Grimoult, ordre de Saint-Augustin au diocèse de Bayeux [The Abbots of St. Stephen's Priory in Le Plessis-Grimoult, Ordre of St. Augustin in the...
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    (1578–1830)]. Annuaire-bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de France (in French) (2): 100. Retrieved 24 March 2020. "Ordre de la Légion d'honneur: Textes...
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  • city of Caen allied to Louis XIII, in 1620, François-Dominique, son of Councilor of State-Claude Dominique Barberie de Saint Contest was named King's...
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    founded the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (French: Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis), a military order of chivalry. He named it after...
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    dedicated to the Ordre de la Libération, France's second national order after the Légion d'honneur, which was created in 1940 by General Charles de Gaulle, leader...
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    Félicité de Mailly (1712 – 9 September 1741), by marriage marquise de Vintimille. She died after giving birth to a son: Charles Emmanuel Marie Magdelon de Vintimille...
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    Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (category Burials at the Chapelle royale de Dreux)
    the Château de Saint-Cloud, some ten kilometers west of Paris. As the grandson of King Louis XIII of France, Philippe was a petit-fils de France. This...
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    father Alfonso XIII. Knights of the order are entitled to be addressed with the style His/Her Excellency in front of their name. Charles I (1516–1556)...
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