The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 10. köideEncyclopedia Britannica Company, 1910 |
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... France , was born at Bar - le - Duc on the 13th of November 1775. He volunteered into the 3rd battalion of the Meuse in 1791 , became a lieutenant in 1797 , and in 1798 was aide- de - camp to General Eblé , and in the following year to ...
... France , was born at Bar - le - Duc on the 13th of November 1775. He volunteered into the 3rd battalion of the Meuse in 1791 , became a lieutenant in 1797 , and in 1798 was aide- de - camp to General Eblé , and in the following year to ...
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... France was presented by the Chinese ambassador to the comtesse de Clauzel at the coronation of Napoleon I. in 1804. When a site was given in 1635 , on an artificial island , for the settlement of Portuguese merchants in Nippo in Japan ...
... France was presented by the Chinese ambassador to the comtesse de Clauzel at the coronation of Napoleon I. in 1804. When a site was given in 1635 , on an artificial island , for the settlement of Portuguese merchants in Nippo in Japan ...
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... France was for some time pretty considerable . His Historiska Skrifter , which are a record of Swedish history , mainly autobiographical , during the greater part of the 18th century , is excellent as literature , but somewhat ...
... France was for some time pretty considerable . His Historiska Skrifter , which are a record of Swedish history , mainly autobiographical , during the greater part of the 18th century , is excellent as literature , but somewhat ...
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... France and Germany where feudalism continued to regulate the property relations of lords and vassals longer than elsewhere , and where the under- lying economic feudalism remained in large part unchanged . In this later pseudo ...
... France and Germany where feudalism continued to regulate the property relations of lords and vassals longer than elsewhere , and where the under- lying economic feudalism remained in large part unchanged . In this later pseudo ...
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... France at that time . The Franco - German War engaged Flach's activities in other directions , and he spent two years ( described in his Strasbourg après le bombardement , 1873 ) at work on the rebuilding of the library and the museum ...
... France at that time . The Franco - German War engaged Flach's activities in other directions , and he spent two years ( described in his Strasbourg après le bombardement , 1873 ) at work on the rebuilding of the library and the museum ...
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