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    through paintings by French academic painters, from advertisements to Gustave Doré’s illustrations for Orlando Furioso. The iconography of putti is deliberately...
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    that most photographers made them as a matter of course, including Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron. Lebailly continues that child nudes...
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    rough landing to its passengers. In June 1784, the Gustave (a hot air balloon christened La Gustave in honour of King Gustav III of Sweden's visit to Lyon)...
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    MEP (1869–1884) Marie-Jean-Gustave Blanc, MEP (1884–1890) Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel, MEP (1890–1911) Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel, MEP (1911–1933)...
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    commissioned a new glass and iron building designed by Louis-Charles Boileau and Gustave Eiffel that opened in 1869 and became the model for the modern...
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    penitentiaries in the United States and proceeded there with his lifelong friend Gustave de Beaumont. While he did visit some prisons, Tocqueville traveled widely...
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    born in this room: Philip V of Spain, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Louis XVII, Louis XVIII, and Charles X. The animals of the Menagerie, abandoned after the Revolution...
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    patronage to the Immaculate Conception was invoked on by the French Bishop Gustave Charles Mutel (1854–1933) on 29 May 1898. On 18 August 2014, Pope Francis presided...
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    1747, who gave birth to the next three Kings of France: Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X). Louis XV's second son, the Duke of Anjou, was born in 1730...
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    Russian poet and writer (A Hero of Our Time) Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet (Les Fleurs du mal) Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (Madame...
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