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    the Cabot Strait. In 1759, he besieged Quebec for three months from Île d'Orléans. Then, Wolfe stormed Quebec and fought against Montcalm for control of...
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    French-language version's first performance in the United States was at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, on 30 December 1824. In 1941, Riccardo Zandonai composed...
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    Roelker, previously Tweed) on 25 August 1928 Princess Charles-Philippe d'Orléans, Duchess of Nemours (née Marguerite Watson) on 24 September 1928 Beatrice...
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    d'Alain Delon : Ari Boulogne fait appel du jugement du tribunal judiciaire d'Orléans". www.larep.fr. Retrieved 19 March 2024. "Alain Delon poursuivi en justice...
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    came to govern Milan: Matteo I, Galeazzo I, Azzone and the Archbishop Giovanni, expanding the area of Visconti influence over the surrounding regions...
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    the final choice of the project designed by Gruppo Toscano composed of Giovanni Michelucci, Berardi, Italo Gamberini, Baroni, Lusanna and sponsored by...
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    Mary had recently been widowed by the death of her husband, Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. David Beaton wrote to James V from Lyon in October...
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  • Baden-Baden, duchesse d'Orléans, (1726) and paternal great-grandmother of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French Louise Diane d'Orléans (1736), princesse de...
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    retained some independence. (In 1842 he and Sand moved to the Square d'Orléans, living in adjacent buildings.) On 26 July 1840, Chopin and Sand were...
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    the British throne passed to the descendants of their child Anne Marie d'Orléans. Upon Mary's death, the throne went to Elizabeth I. Philip had no wish...
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