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    Persepolis (redirect from Chehel-Menar)
    Jamshid". Another name given to the site in the medieval period was Čehel Menâr (Persian: چهل منار, "Forty Minarets"), transcribed as Chilminara in De Silva...
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    figure who lived there, Abu Said al-Baji, it was previously called Jbel el-Menar. The town itself is a tourist attraction and is known for its extensive...
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    The Castle of Menars (French: château de Menars, pronounced [ʃɑto də menaʁ]) is a castle (château) associated with Madame de Pompadour situated on the...
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    Pavillon du Butard, 1750 at La Celle-Saint-Cloud. Extension of the Château de Menars (Loir-et-Cher), 1760–1764, for Madame de Pompadour French Pavilion of Versailles...
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    Abel-François Poisson (category Marquesses of Menars)
    pronunciation: [abɛl fʁɑ̃swa pwasɔ̃ də vɑ̃djɛʁ maʁki də maʁiɲi]) and marquis de Menars (1727 – 12 May 1781), often referred to simply as marquis de Marigny, was...
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    its integration into the Royal domain in 1498, when Count Louis II of Orléans became King Louis XII of France. During the Renaissance, Blois was the official...
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    in 1753, but the order never came. (John Goldsmith Phillips, "The Choisy-Ménars Vases" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 25.6 (February...
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  • Dmitry Dokhturov 1st Infantry Brigade – Major-General Friedrich von Löwis of Menar 7th Jäger Regiment (1 battalion) – Colonel Pavel P. Tolbukhin New Ingermanland...
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    maternal uncle, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, Marquis of Marigny and Menars. She was known as ‘Madame Alexandrine’, following the form of addressing...
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    Kallipygian Venus for Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles in 1686, and a copy of the Medici Venus which may be seen at the Château de Menars. He died in Paris...
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