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    Woman. Claire de Duras left her native France for London during the French Revolution in 1789, and returned to France in 1808 as the Duchess of Duras.[citation...
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    Ourika is an 1823 novel by Claire de Duras, originally published anonymously. Ourika is a story based on the life of a woman who was purchased as a child...
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    Château d'Ussé (category Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire)
    the guest of duchesse Claire de Duras. In 1885 the comtesse de la Rochejaquelein bequeathed Ussé to her great-nephew, the comte de Blacas. Today the château...
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  • cuisine Olivier (novel), the first published novel by French author Claire de Duras The Olivier Theatre (named after the actor Laurence Olivier), one of...
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  • director Claire de Duras (1777–1828), a French writer Oldřich Duras or Důras (1882–1957), Czech chess International Grandmaster Důras, Czech surname Duras (grape)...
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  • father of Ootsie and Bootsie Snootie in "PB&J Otter" Édouard a novel by Claire de Duras published in 1825 Hurricane Edouard (disambiguation) Édouard André...
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    publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne. In 1950, her mother returned to...
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  • theme of Olivier, a novel by the Duchess Claire de Duras. In Olivier, the protagonist cannot marry the Comtesse de Nangis because of a secret. Although the...
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  • Héliot, Armelle (April 9, 2020). "Claire Deluca ou la délicatesse". "Le Shaga de Marguerite Duras" (PDF). Duras mon amour (in French). June 2008. Costaz...
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  • story of The French Lieutenant's Woman were loosely derived from the Claire de Duras novel Ourika (1823), which features a tragic affair between an African...
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