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    French". Later on, Léger greatly embellished his family origins by changing his surname to the more aristocratic sounding St Léger-Léger and by claiming...
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    as a forerunner of pop art. Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect...
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    Rouault, Léger, Bazaine, Chagall, Berçot, Briançon, Richier... (1938-1949) The Church of Sacré Cœur d'Audincourt: stained glass by Fernand Léger, mosaic...
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    Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (7 March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a French abolitionist and Jacobin before joining the Girondist party, which emerged in 1791...
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    Léger Marie Deschamps (10 January 1716 – 19 April 1774), Benedictine monk, known under his Benedictine name of Dom Deschamps, was a French philosopher...
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    1867 to 1869 and president of Haiti from 1902 to 1908.[citation needed] Léger, Jacques Nicolas (1907). Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors. The Neale...
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    Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (7 April 1755 – 20 October 1813) was a French military commander. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste...
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    Strentz ; Guy-Pierre Fauconnet ; Ambroise Vollard ; Ardengo Soffici ; Fernand Léger ; O. -W. Gambedoo ; F. S. Flint ; Gabriel Arbouin ; Mireille Havet ; Léopold...
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    Georges Braque, and joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Juan Gris, and Fernand Léger. One primary influence that...
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    the walls of Marie Vassilieff's atelier held a collection of paintings by Marc Chagall and Modigliani, drawings by Picasso and Fernand Léger, and in a corner...
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