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    fictionalized or biographical. Other authors include abbé Cavard, abbé de Villiers, abbé Olivier and le sieur de Grandchamp. The realism (and occasional irony)...
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  • considerably impoverished, and a 4-part harmonization written in 1845 by Abbé Lambert have been in use in Catholic communities in France. In 1872, the...
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    governmental and high-ranking positions such as the Seigneur of Offémont and Villiers, councillor of State, Master of Requests, the Civil Lieutenant and prévôt...
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    environs de Naples. He occupied the chair of mineralogy of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1847 to 1857. With André Brochant de Villiers and...
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    Great Siege of Rhodes in 1522, and accompanied Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, after the Order's expulsion from Rhodes by the Ottoman Turks...
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    Baurein, Jacques (Abbé) (1876), Variétés bordeloises ou Essai historique et critique sur la topographie ancienne et moderne du diocèse de Bordeaux (in French)...
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    30 Rue de Saintonge in Le Marais, a district with relatively wealthy inhabitants. He shared an apartment on the third floor with Pierre Villiers who was...
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    luminaries such as Abbé Breuil, and even to direct the archaeological excavations at the Gallo-Roman villa of La Pépinière2 near Villiers-le-Duc (Côte-d'Or)...
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    previously married, on 13 January 1803, Lady Frances Villiers, seventh daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey. She died at 62 Chester Square,...
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    velvet curtain. During the Paris Commune of 1871, the curé of the church, Abbé Deguerry, was one of those arrested and held hostage by the Commune. He was...
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