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    Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, called d'Avaux (1640–1709), was a French diplomat in the service of Louis XIV. He is probably best known for accompanying King...
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    (1630–1640), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Parnassus, or Apollo and the Muses (c. 1640) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The Awakening of Europa (1640), Museum...
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    Strasbourg, dans lesquels il possédait des intérêts financiers depuis les années 80. La justice le soupçonnait initialement de proxénétisme, en raison des...
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    Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, 2nd edition, p. 1640. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1965. Originally published in...
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    shelled by German long-range guns. In the years after the war, known as Les Années Folles, Paris continued to be a mecca for writers, musicians and artists...
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    South America. During the reign of Philip IV (Philip III of Portugal) in 1640, the Portuguese revolted and fought successfully for their independence from...
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  • the most learned men of the time, and was placed successively (1630 and 1640) in charge of the two principal chairs of theology in the university of that...
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    This led to the death of many indigenous people by disease and violence. By 1640, however, the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique had gone bankrupt, and they...
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    ├─>Marguerite │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ X 1) Jacques de Monchy, seigneur d'Amerval (+1640) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ X 2) Antoine de Postel, seigneur de la Grange │ │ │ │ │...
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    in Nagasaki on September 29, 1637. No French people visit Japan between 1640 and 1780. Around 1700, the impostor known as George Psalmanazar claims to...
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