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    Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC (15 March 1890 – 10 August 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
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    Fallize, pages 614 ff. (in French) Jean-Baptiste Fallize, Birth Certificate No. 22, dated 9 November 1844, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, Province of Luxembourg...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Reilles (29 May 1920 – 17 August 1987), whose stage name was Mac Kac, was a French jazz drummer. He was known for being one of the first...
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    Alexandre Dumas (Villers-Cotterêts, France). Marie-Louise Labouret-Dumas to Madame Carmin, 4 December 1806, Musée Alexandre Dumas (Villers-Cotterêts, France)...
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    Goyet (died 1869) Jean-Baptiste Goyet (1779–1854) Jean-François Boisard (1762–1820) Thomas Henry (1766–1836) Marie-Denise Villers (1774–1821) Dominique...
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  • legatee. On 7 February 1640 she married her first husband's brother, Jean-Baptiste de la Baume, governor of Franche-Comté, with a special dispensation from...
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    extinct. Jean-Baptiste Jullien de Courcelles, Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France, volume 8, page 220. Henri Jougla de Morenas, Grand...
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    the chapel of Fontainebleau and in Villers-Cotterêts in 1527. He worked on these sites in competition with Jean de La Hamée who had been received as a...
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    The overall plan is based on the 13th century Cistercian abbey of Villers at Villers-la-Ville in Walloon Brabant. Construction was finished in 1892. Along...
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    Saint-Ours. 19 August: The Municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste became the Parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville. Creation of the Parish of Sainte-Angélique...
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