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    Auguste was an 80-gun ship of the line in the French Navy, laid down in 1777 and in active service from 1779. She took part in the Naval operations in...
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    Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the...
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  • the line. Auguste (1741), a 50-gun ship of the line. Auguste (1778), an 80-gun ship of the line. Auguste (1783), a 24-gun corvette. Auguste was a 4-gun...
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  • Auguste may refer to: Arsène Auguste (1951–1993), Haitian footballer Donna Auguste (born 1958), African-American businesswoman Georges Auguste (born 1933)...
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    for his grandson Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (later King Louis XVI), who dropped the title in 1765 when he became Dauphin. In 1778, Louis XVI once again re-created...
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    Bernardo Bellotto's painting "Election of Stanislas Augustus" from 1776 and 1778. Mieczyslaw Wallis describes him as follows: Standing in front of the tent...
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  • The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events. Lagrange delivers his treatise on cometary perturbations to the Académie française...
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    Gertraude Bachmann: Natur und Kunst in den Reisetagebüchern der Herzogin Auguste Caroline Sophie von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (text of the lecture from the...
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    Pierre Laclède (category 1778 deaths)
    Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764...
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    Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy (22 June 1736 – 27 February 1804) was a French Navy officer and painter. Cercy was born in Dompierre-sur-Mer in 1736...
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