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    played by Du Croisy) — the other rejected suitor Gorgibus (orig. François Bedeau, aka L'Espy) — a good bourgeois man Magdelon (orig. Madeleine Béjart)...
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    bourgeois Parisian, Sganarelle's neighbour and Célie's father L'Espy (François Bedeau) Lélie, a well-bred and idealistic young man in love with Célie La...
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    Works by François-René de Chateaubriand at Project Gutenberg Works by or about François-René de Chateaubriand at Internet Archive Works by François-René de...
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    French prestige. The eldest son of François Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville (1700–1770), Étienne François was born in Nancy in the Duchy of Lorraine...
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    Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi ɡzavje fʁɑ̃swa daʁlɑ̃]; 7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French admiral and political...
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    Marie Alphonse Bedeau (19 August 1804 – 29 October 1863) was a French general and minister. Bedeau was born on 19 August 1804 in Vertou (Lower Loire)...
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    Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (French pronunciation: [dɔminik maʁi fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne ɡaluzo də vilpɛ̃]) is a French politician who served...
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    discovered that François Guizot had substituted for her. In 1812 Mademoiselle de Meulan married Guizot. She died in 1827. (An only son, François, born in 1819...
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    Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (Corsican: Oraziu Francescu Bastianu Sebastiani di A Porta; 11 November 1771 – 20 July 1851) was a French...
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    ex ministre de François Mitterrand, et un historien local de Ducey" [The friendship between Roland Dumas, former minister of François Mitterrand, and...
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