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    remembrance Commemorative inscription in the Panthéon of Paris Portrait and images from The Little Prince on a 50-franc banknote Historical marker where the Saint-Exupérys...
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    this fountain into the Bassin de Neptune. (Marie 1972, 1975; Thompson 2006; Verlet 1985) Excavated in 1678, the Pièce d'eau des Suisses – named for the...
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    Jean Moulin (category Burials at the Panthéon, Paris)
    1993, commemorative French 2, 100 and 500 franc coins were issued, showing a partial image of Moulin against the Croix de Lorraine and using a fedora-and-scarf...
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    The total cost of relocating the obelisk was estimated at 2.5 million francs (equivalent to an estimated €16 million or $19 million in 2020). The high...
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    Jacques-Louis David (category Prix de Rome for painting)
    and for this painting, he received twenty-four thousand Francs. David was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1803. He was promoted to an Officier...
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    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    3,500 francs to anyone who flew 25 metres; the second, instituted by the French aeroclub, would award 1,500 francs ($300) to anyone who flew 100 metres;...
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    Eiffel Tower (redirect from La dame de fer)
    contract granting him 1.5 million francs toward the construction costs: less than a quarter of the estimated 6.5 million francs. Eiffel was to receive all income...
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    year, Viollet-le-Duc submitted a budget of 3,888,500 francs, which was reduced to 2,650,000 francs, for the restoration of Notre-Dame and the construction...
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    establishing an office in Toronto in 1933. In the 1950s, he and geologist Franc Joubin were primarily responsible for the "Big Z" uranium discovery in northeastern...
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    ve. J. Renouard for Sociéte de l'histoire de France. Froissart, Jean (1835). Buchon, J. A. C. (ed.). Chroniques. Panthéon littéraire. Littérature française...
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