• 153 Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, Pierre Gouhier (ed.), L'intendance de Caen en 1700 : édition critique des mémoires rédigés sous la direction de Nicolas-Joseph...
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    tapestry (about 30 feet of the Tapestry's 231 feet) among papers of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, a Norman administrator. (These drawings of the tapestry's images...
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    Gothic-style script. Later, it belonged to the Marquis of Magny, Nicolas-Joseph Foucault [fr] (1643-1721), then to the English collector Hans Sloane (1660-1753)...
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    (Solomon ben Isaac). Edited by Joseph Hayim ben Aaron Strasbourg Zarfati. Bologna: Abraham ben Hayim of Pesaro for Joseph ben Abraham Caravita, 5 Adar I...
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    In 1695, Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, the intendant of the generalité of Caen, commissioned excavations at the site. The Jesuit Pierre-Joseph Dunod, who...
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    when he sold his office for 250,000 pounds to Joseph Magny, Marquis de Foucault. In 1697, Louis Nicolas Le Tonnelier married Gabrielle Anne de Froulay...
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    discovery of ancient and medieval remnants. Subsequently, in 1703, Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, the intendant of the generalité of Caen, conducted further excavations...
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    storehouse in Saint-Denis. Among its collection is an original version of the Foucault pendulum, the original model of Liberty Enlightening the World (commonly...
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    until 1687. He briefly was the private tutor of the young son of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, a collector and bibliophile. He became a very close friend to...
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  • time, such as Johann Friedrich Greuter, Cornelis Bloemaert and Nicolas Joseph Foucault. Plates were also prepared by the renowned painters and draughtsmen...
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