The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... France before Corneille , was born on August 21 , 1609 at Dreux in Normandy , and died of the plague at the same place on the 28th June 1650. His family was of small means but of . not inconsiderable station , and seems to have had a ...
... France before Corneille , was born on August 21 , 1609 at Dreux in Normandy , and died of the plague at the same place on the 28th June 1650. His family was of small means but of . not inconsiderable station , and seems to have had a ...
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... France by Philip Augustus in 1204 did no damage to the prosperity of Rouen , although its inhabitants submitted to their new master only after a siege of nearly three months . To this period belong , if not the commencement , at least ...
... France by Philip Augustus in 1204 did no damage to the prosperity of Rouen , although its inhabitants submitted to their new master only after a siege of nearly three months . To this period belong , if not the commencement , at least ...
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... France , addressing letters to the lord chancellor and to General Conway , which can only be described as the letters of a lunatic . He was received in France by the Marquis de Mirabeau ( father of the great Mirabeau ) , of whom he soon ...
... France , addressing letters to the lord chancellor and to General Conway , which can only be described as the letters of a lunatic . He was received in France by the Marquis de Mirabeau ( father of the great Mirabeau ) , of whom he soon ...
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... France . There were ignorant persons who were sincerely orthodox ; there were intelligent persons who pretended to be so . But between the time of Massillon and D'Aguesseau and the time of Lamennais and Joseph de Maistre the class of ...
... France . There were ignorant persons who were sincerely orthodox ; there were intelligent persons who pretended to be so . But between the time of Massillon and D'Aguesseau and the time of Lamennais and Joseph de Maistre the class of ...
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... France . ROUSSILLON , a province of France , which now forms the greater part of the department of PYRÉNÉES ORIENTALES ( q.v. ) . It was bounded on the south by the Pyrenees , on the west by the county of Foix , on the north by ...
... France . ROUSSILLON , a province of France , which now forms the greater part of the department of PYRÉNÉES ORIENTALES ( q.v. ) . It was bounded on the south by the Pyrenees , on the west by the county of Foix , on the north by ...
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