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    Armand Louis de Gontaut (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ lwi də ɡɔ̃to]), duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French...
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    Marie-Amélie de Boufflers, duchesse de Lauzun (5 May 1751 – 27 June 1794) was a French noblewoman and heiress who was one of the influential princesses...
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    Mademoiselle, she was only buying Lauzun's release and the right for him to live on her estates as an exile. Lauzun was freed on 22 April 1681 and obliged...
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    libertines such as Isaac de Benserade and Antonin Nompar de Caumont, Duke of Lauzun. She read the popular books of the age and took painting and sculpture classes...
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    le roi n'avait pas bien dit sa leçon.; Maugras, Gaston (1907). Le duc de Lauzun et la cour intime de Louis XV (in French). Paris: Plon. p. 286. Retrieved...
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  • (Madame de Genlis) (1746–1830) Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron, duc de Lauzun (1747–1793) Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) Pierre-Louis Ginguené (1748–1815)...
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    of the Volontaires-étrangers de Lauzun (Lauzun's Legion), a mercenary unit owned and commanded by the Duc de Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut. He served...
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    suggestion, noting that the panel decorations are typically "Roman." Philippe Lauzun suggests a legal function for the piles in general, likening them to “temples...
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    Gloucester, Virginia 1st Legion of Foreign Volunteers of the Navy (4 companies) Lauzun's Legion (2 squadrons) Royal Marine Corps History of the Royal Regiment of...
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    correspondence is known to historians from the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence. Sir Gilbert Clayton, Aubrey Herbert, Storrs and others of the intelligence community...
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