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    returned the statuary to Venice. The horses of Saint Mark were replaced in 1828 by a quadriga sculpted by Baron François Joseph Bosio, depicting Peace riding...
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    as the first governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1700. Born on 2 August 1646 in Saubusse, France to a Huguenot family, du Casse enlisted in the French...
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    title of Freiherr (Baron) by Emperor Francis I of Austria. That same year, he was appointed consul-general of the Austrian Empire. In 1823, he was awarded...
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    du Palmier Place du Châtelet Base Mérimée: Tour Saint-Jacques, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Tupigny, Jacques Pierre Meurgey, baron de...
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    the National Convention: Georges Frédéric Dentzel [fr], a baron of Napoleon's First Empire. He began his schooling at the Collège Henri-IV and at the...
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    1270 Lancelot de Saint-Maard (died 1278), Marshal of France in 1270 Ferry de Verneuil (died 1283), Marshal of France in 1272 Guillaume V du Bec Crespin (died...
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    Louis d'Aloigny, marquis de Rochefort, baron de Craon and bailli du Berri. César-Auguste de Saint-Lary, baron de Termes, Grand Squire of France. Alexandre...
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    material used. Examples include the Gare du Nord railway station by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, the Church of Saint Augustine by Victor Baltard, and particularly...
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    Jean-Baptiste de Suffren, Marquis de Saint-Cannet, Baron de La Môle, and advisor to the parliament of Provence. The lordship of Saint-Tropez became the prerogative...
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    mother was Italian. After he was made a baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon, he was known formally as Baron Gérard. François Gérard was born in...
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