Second Republic. 1849: Insurrections in Paris and Lyon 1851: 1851 French coup d'état 1853–1854: Food riots 1868: Food riots 1869: Violent strikes in St Etienne...
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Camille Saint-Saëns (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
the Conservatoire in 1853, Saint-Saëns accepted the post of organist at the ancient Parisian church of Saint-Merri near the Hôtel de Ville. The parish was...
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Louis Fanchini, Histoire de grosse tête, Timbres Magazine n° 113 of May 2010, pp. 94 & 95. Louis Fanchini, Le premier timbre-poste de Grèce : « la grosse tête...
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Melusine (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
carnally with a man, or the banshee or harbinger of death. The French Dictionnaire de la langue française suggests the Latin melus, meaning "melodious...
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collectionneurs de timbres-poste (Handbook for Stamp Collectors). This work is the first of its kind in Belgium and the second in the French language, following...
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coins, poinçons et matrices de monnaies, médailles, jetons, sceaux, cachets et timbres appartenant a l'état (1861) Les pagi de la Belgique et leurs subdivisions...
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engraved by Claude Haley. Encyclopédie du timbre-poste de France [Encyclopaedia of the Postage Stamps of France] : tome 1, 1849-1852 issues (Ceres and Presidency)...
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Psoy Korolenko (category Articles containing French-language text)
literature. His pseudonym comes from Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921), whose works are a subject of Pavel's research. In university, Korolenko...
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The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (redirect from La Mort du duc de Guise)
Guise (1908) (original French title: La Mort du duc de Guise; often referred to as L'Assassinat du duc de Guise) is a French film d'art silent film directed...
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Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns) (category Articles containing French-language text)
the work, notably in its unusual instrumentation (organ and piano) and "timbres and styles foreign to the [symphonic] genre". It has been commonly noted...
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