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    The Bignon Commission (French: commission Bignon; 1693–1718) was a group directed by the French minister Colbert to examine the feasibility of compiling...
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  • The Bignon Commission (French: commission Bignon; 1793–1794) was a French military tribunal that terrorized Nantes during the French Revolution. The president...
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  • Bignon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Armand-Jérôme Bignon (1711–1772), French lawyer, royal librarian and conseiller d'État Jean-Paul...
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  • Baskerville. The letterforms were the work of the Royal Academy's Bignon Commission as part of its investigation of French typography and printing for...
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    machines to be reported upon. This led to the formation of the Bignon Commission under Abbé Bignon. René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757) became editor...
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    French Academy. He was charged by the minister Colbert to head the Bignon Commission, which investigated the feasibility and then began the compilation...
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  • during the French Revolution. He was later condemned to death by the Bignon Commission and guillotined. Postic, Marcel Carrier et la Terreur à Nantes L'Harmattan...
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    member of the Bignon Commission charged by the minister Colbert to compile the Description of the Arts and Trades. One of the commission's first fields...
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    Supervision of the commission was entrusted to the former French Resident in the Duchy of Warsaw, Commissioner Louis Pierre Édouard Bignon. Actual power,...
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    Édouard, Baron Bignon (3 January 1771 in La Mailleraye-sur-Seine – 6 January 1841) was a French diplomat and historian. Louis de Bignon was born at La...
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