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    Leclerc, Comte de Buffon The Cuvier Fountain The Amphitheater (18th c.) The Hôtel de Magny, the garden administration building The Maison de l'Intendance...
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    The Château de Magny-en-Bessin (Castle of Magny-en-Bessin) is a classical-style French château located in the commune of Magny-en-Bessin, in the Calvados...
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    The Hôtel de Besenval is a historic hôtel particulier in Paris with a cour d'honneur and a large English landscape garden, an architectural style commonly...
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    Anatomy gallery B) Statue of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, with Paul and Virginia C) The alpine garden D) The Hôtel de Magny E) The gallery of Paleontology and...
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    museum in the northern French city of Cambrai. He moved in 1893 into the Hôtel de Francqueville, which dates back to 1720 and was renovated and expanded...
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    lord of Magny, and acted as governor of the young Louis XIV. His son François succeeded him as duke. He was the lover of Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont...
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    dismissive reference in the memoirs of the duc de Nevers, published long afterwards, instances "Magny" (i.e. Clagny) as "a painter who used to make inventions...
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    department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the Vexin regional nature park [fr], and is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The...
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    current National School of Fine Arts or Beaux-Arts de Paris). In exchange, she offered them the hôtel de Sansac, located near the chapel of Saint-Pierre...
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  • Mathurin Cherpitel (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
    notable buildings include the Hôtel du Châtelet. Mathurin Cherpitel was the son of a master carpenter who helped to build the Rue de Bourgogne in Paris. Cherpitel...
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