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    Jean-François Nicolas Boch Buschmann (9 March 1782 – 9 February 1858) was a Luxembourgish manufacturer. He was a member of the third generation of owners...
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    at Wallerfangen. In 1812 Jean-François Boch began construction of kilns at the nearby town of Mettlach, Saarland. In 1824 Boch commenced transfer printing...
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    legend is that the abbey monks asked Pierre-Joseph Boch for this favour. His son Jean-François Boch met with the future King Frederick William IV of Prussia...
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    March 8 – Nicoll Halsey, American politician (d. 1865) March 9 – Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician (d. 1858) March 10 Ferdinand...
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  • needed] When Eugène Boch died in 1941, he bequeathed The Poet (that is Van Gogh's title for his portrait of Eugène Boch, which Boch received from Johanna...
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    March 8 – Nicoll Halsey, American politician (d. 1865) March 9 – Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician (d. 1858) March 10 Ferdinand...
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    background in Portrait of Eugène Boch. Van Gogh mentioned the Cafe Terrace painting in a letter written to Eugène Boch on 2 October 1888, writing he had...
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  • François Scheffer (1 July 1766 – 9 September 1844) was a Luxembourgian politician. He served four stints as the Mayor of Luxembourg City, with a total...
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    Luxembourg's Villeroy & Boch porcelain factory, which closed in 2010. The castle was built in 1783–1784 by Jean-François and Pierre-Joseph Boch, who had opened...
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    family Villeroy de Galhau (co-owner of the ceramic manufacturer Villeroy & Boch, domiciled since the late 18th century in Wallerfangen (Saarland)); he speaks...
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