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    Jean Romilly (27 June 1714 – 16 February 1796) was an 18th-century Genevan watchmaker, journalist and encyclopédiste. Born in a Huguenot family which took...
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  • Romilly is a surname, and may refer to: Charles Romilly (1808–1887), English cricketer and barrister Edward Romilly (1804–1870), English amateur cricketer...
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  • Jean Romilly, whom he predeceased, his mother was Elizabeth Adrienne Joly (born 1719) and his younger sister was Elisabeth Jeanne Pierrette Romilly (1742–1814)...
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  • (1713–1788), English clockmaker, Derby. Jean Romilly (1714–1796), Swiss watchmaker, Paris, pocket watch. Jean François Poncet (1714–1804), Swiss watchmaker...
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    ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866. Three other sons, Frederick Romilly, Edward Romilly, and Charles Romilly, were first-class cricketers. Romilly was born on...
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    and a friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Through his mother, Cavaignac was a great-grandson of the Genevan encyclopédiste Jean Romilly. He and his brother...
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    French newspaper. The paper was founded by Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux, Jean Romilly, Olivier de Corancez, and Louis d'Ussieux, in 1777, following the model...
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    Claude Dauphin. He is a great-uncle of Griffin Newman, James Newman and Romilly Newman. Arsene Lupin, Detective (1937) The Tale of the Fox (1937) A Foolish...
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  • Guy Romilly, 4th Baron Romilly (8 March 1899 – 29 June 1983) was a British hereditary peer. He was the only child of John Romilly, 3rd Baron Romilly and...
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    similar instruments, notably Ferdinand Berthoud, Étienne Tavernier and Jean Romilly, but being unfinished or damaged at the time, their prototypes could...
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