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    Auguste Perret (12 February 1874 – 25 February 1954) was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works...
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    Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage...
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    St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre is a Roman Catholic church in Le Havre, France. From 1945 to 1964, the City of Le Havre commissioned Auguste Perret and...
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    Auguste Perret between 1945 and 1964. Only the City Hall and the Church of Saint Joseph (107 m-high) were personally designed by Auguste Perret. In commending...
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    Andžs Flaksis  Latvia DNF - Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier  France DNF - Joseph Perret  Great Britain DNF - Owain Doull  Great Britain DNF - Mark Dzamastagic...
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    Catherine Perret (born 9 July 1956 in Paris) is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University (Paris X)....
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    In 1877 Joseph Monier introduced the idea of strengthening the concrete with a mesh of iron rods in a grill pattern. In 1893, Auguste Perret built the...
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    1937 Ravel was interred next to his parents in a granite tomb at Levallois-Perret cemetery, in north-west Paris. He was an atheist and there was no religious...
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    the mid 1940s has been documented. Vidal, 380; Pitts, 202 Perret, 38, 405n.; Pitts, 22-3 Perret, 405n26; Pitts, 87; Vidal, 380 TIME: "Women: Jackie," January...
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    Russie au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Jean-Pierre Poussou, Anne Mézin, and Yves Perret-Gentil, Institut d'Études Slaves, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne...
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