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    fencing contest leading to his appointment as a "gendarme de la garde du roi" by king Louis XVI. Having received music and musical composition lessons,...
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    to make access to the garden easier. The creation of the place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde) created a grand vestibule to the garden, though entrance...
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    Napoleon's deathbed comment about Lafayette in their Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française; he stated that "the king would still be sitting...
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    drapeaux et des pavillons sous tous leurs aspects (usage, histoire, symbolisme, fabrication, etc.) et adhère aux règles et principes énoncés dans ses...
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    Afterwards, Louis XV visited the city only on special occasions. One of the major building projects in Paris of Louis XV and his successor, Louis XVI, was the...
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    Frédéric (2010). "La condition juridique de l'esclave sous la Monarchie de Juillet". Revue française de théorie, de philosophie et de cultures juridiques:...
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    officer and admiral. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and took part in 34 campaigns. He fought in the Seven Years' War...
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    House of Rohan (redirect from De Rohan)
    their closeness to the kings (Louis XIV and Madame de Soubise, Louis XV and the Marshal of Soubise, Louis XVI and Madame de Marsan, governess of the Children...
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    Louvre Palace (category Castles in Île-de-France)
    solennités et aux cérémonies publiques." cited in Léon Lanzac de Laborie, Paris sous Napoléon, Paris, Plon, 1905, page 167. "Histoire de la collection"...
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    Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Place Louis XV, now the Place de la Concorde (1766–75) Facade of the Hôtel de la Marine on Place de la Concorde (1766–75), by Ange-Jacques...
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