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    Laurent Jean François Truguet (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
    of a chef d'escadre, Laurent de Truguet entered the gardes de la marine in 1765. He navigated successively the Hirondelle, Provence, Atalante, Pléiade...
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    four, increasingly impressive research yachts, Hirondelle, Princesse Alice, Princesse Alice II and Hirondelle II. Accompanied by some of the world's leading...
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    resting on a small ledge, in what is called "The swallow's nest" ("Nid de Hirondelle"). It has forty-seven stops on four manual keyboards, and a set of foot...
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  • paludicola (hirondelle paludicole) (A) Bank swallow, Riparia riparia (hirondelle de rivage) Eurasian crag-martin, Ptyonoprogne rupestris (hirondelle de rochers)...
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  • Le Pot de confitures 1911: Philémon et Baucis 1911: Oiseau de printemps, hirondelle d'hiver 1911: Frisette, blanchisseuse de fin (La Note de la blanchisseuse)...
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    technology of the time, a unit of policemen on bicycles (called the hirondelles after the brand of the bicycles) was formed. They numbered 18 per arrondissement...
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    privateer Lévrier. Together with Ambuscade and Stag, on 20 November she took Hirondelle. On 24 November 1798, Phaeton captured the French privateer brig Resolue...
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    Bank swallow (hirondelle de rivage), Riparia riparia Tree swallow (hirondelle bicolore), Tachycineta bicolor Violet-green swallow (hirondelle à face blanche)...
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    evident in the center of Paris. Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, was born in Paris, but spent very little of his life there until he assumed...
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  • Amfitrite. Whilst in command of Bittern he chased a French privateer, Hirondelle, for 36 hours in a flat calm, with his crew at the sweeps the whole time...
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