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    from the Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval force commanded by the Comte de Grasse over the...
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    Vice, Dominic Foy in State of Play, Rick in Mad Dogs (2011-2013), the Comte de Rochefort in The Musketeers (2015), the Gentleman in Jonathan Strange &...
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  • practice of the French courts), taking as Vicomte de Stacpoole the French peerage title of 2nd Comte Stacpoole on 25 March 1824. He had married Elizabeth...
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  • Pearson RJ King Stella Tennant & Peter Marino Raquel Zimmermann & Dorian Reeves Amanda Murphy Ethan James Green Meghan Collison Frederik Meijnen Cameron...
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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist,...
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  • Dangerous Liaisons (category Films based on works by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
    Choderlos de Laclos. It stars Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Peter Capaldi and Keanu Reeves. Dangerous...
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    Burgundian Wars (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    then became part of France, and the Burgundian Netherlands and Franche-Comté were inherited by Charles's daughter, Mary of Burgundy, and eventually passed...
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    Christine Kaufmann (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1954. She achieved international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in Town Without...
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    French is comté, and its equivalents in other languages are contea, contado, comtat, condado, Grafschaft, graafschap, etc. (cf. conte, comte, conde, Graf)...
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    King Philip V of France, the counties of Artois and Burgundy (the "Franche Comté") were added to this (1382). These lands were to provide the core of the...
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