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Alexis-François Artaud de Montor

An émigré during the French Revolution, he was entrusted by the royal princes with missions to the Holy See and served during the campaign of Champagne in the Army of Condé.


Aiguilles d'Arves

The central peak of the Aiguilles d’Arves was first climbed by the brothers Pierre Alexis and Benoît Nicolas Magnin, from nearby Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, on 2 September 1839.

Alexis Blue

The band were formed in September 2005 following the split of another Wirral band 'The Rails', with that band's lead guitarist Andrew Stewart and drummer Mark Easton being joined by Tom McCarron to form Alexis Blue.

Alexis Bruix

Alexis Vital Joseph, Baron of Bruix, (Brest, France, 1790 - Callao, Peru, 1825), Alejo Bruix in Spanish, was French military who joined to the patriot armies to fought in the Spanish American Wars of Independence.

Alexis Creek

Alexis remained neutral in the Chilcotin War of 1864 and met with Governor Seymour during the latter's expedition to the vicinity during that affair.

Alexis Creek First Nation

The Alexis Creek First Nation is the band government of the Tsi Del Del subgroup of the Tsilhqot'in people, located in the Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Alexis Lapointe

The Quebec folk music group Mes Aïeux wrote a song about him, entitled Train de vie (le Surcheval), which was released on their album En famille, drawing parallels between the life of Alexis le Trotteur and the frenetic pace of modern living.

Alexis Maravilla

Alexis Vladimir Maravilla Araujo (born December 29, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Alexis Meade

At the instigation of Betty and their mother, Alexis and Daniel set aside their differences and formed a fragile détente.

Alexis Méndez

Alexis Omar Méndez (born October 23, 1969 in Táriba, Cárdenas) is a retired male professional track and road racing cyclist from Venezuela.

Alexis Peterman

In 2013, Alexis played the role of Natalie in the HBO/Sky1 British action and military television series,Strike Back.

Alexis-Armand Charost

He was ordained to the priesthood on May 19, 1883, and then taught at the School of Sainte-Croix until 1892.

Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym

The chief imp among his tormentors was named Rhotomago; Rhotomago's immediate superior was Beelzebub himself.

Alexis, Illinois

Around this time, Grand Duke Alexis was visiting the country, after whom the town was renamed.

Alexius of Rome

Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (1790), refers to the story of St Alexis as sung by a blind soldier begging in Klin, near Moscow.

Alti

In Season 6, Alti returns reincarnated as the brilliant genetic engineer Alexis Los Alamos.

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828) was a French chemist and Pharmacist.

Armgard of Sierstorpff-Cramm

She lived from early 1952 with her partner Alexis Pantchoulidzew in House Warmelo at Diepenheim.

Arquette family

Cliff Arquette (December 26, 1904 – September 23, 1974) – TV actor, father of Lewis Arquette and grandfather of David, Richmond, Rosanna, Alexis and Patricia

Bonabes, Marquess of Rougé

Bonabes Jean Catherine Alexis, Marquis de Rougé (23 September 1751 La Bellière - 9 July 1783) was a French colonel, third Marquis de Rougé, died while returning to France from the American War of Independence, on board of the French ship of the line "Le Zele".

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

In 1811 he moved to Valognes (Manche), pursuing botanical field research and the nascent field of geology, and searching out ancient written materials that cast light on local history, while he undertook, from 1814 onwards, to compile a pioneering inventory of some four or five hundred churches of La Manche (Noell 2005); some of these materials were published as Voyage archéologique dans la Manche (1818–1820).

Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Alexis (1829-1905), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Cindy Timchal

Former players of Timchal’s who coach in the ALC, include head coach of Northwestern, Kelly Amonte Hiller, Head Coach of Pennsylvania State, Missy Doherty, and the head coach of Ohio State, Alexis Venechanos.

Del Worsham

Worsham retired after the end of the 2011 season, to join Kalitta Motorsports as a crew chief for the Toyota Camry Funny Car driven by Alexis DeJoria, daughter of John Paul DeJoria of the John Paul Mitchell Systems hair care line, and sponsored by Tequila Patrón, founded by John Paul.

Jacques Stephen Alexis

Jacques Stephen Alexis (Gonaïves, Haiti, 22 April 1922–Mole St-Nicolas, Haiti, c.

Josimar Hernández

Josimar Alexis Hernández Abrego (born December 23, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Katy Garbi

Her expectations were realized when on August 31 when she performed at the Alexis Miniotis theater at an event organized to benefit the victims and families mainly affected by the 2007 Greek forest fires.

Larry Hillblom

A film by Alexis Spraic documenting the legal hoopla that took place after Hillblom's death, titled Shadow Billionaire premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer

Jiménez-Balaguer’s work shares certain core values intrinsic to the field of Cultural studies and the theoretical struggle of intellectuals such as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alexis Virginie Jimenez, Judith Butler.

Leonardo Cárdenas

On behalf of FONSAL he wrote music for the main event of the Quito Proclamation Light Bicentennial (Pregón del Bicentenario Luz de Quito), with the participation of Venezuelan violinist Alexis Cardenas, Argentine pianist Lito Vitale, Chilean multi-instrumentalist Mauricio Vicencio and others, made on August 1, 2009, on Independence Square.

Lichine

Château Prieuré-Lichine, Bordeaux wine estate still bearing the name of former owner Alexis Lichine

Louis-Félix Guinement de Kéralio

He joined his brothers Auguste, Agathon and Alexis in the régiment d'infanterie d’Anjou as a lieutenant on 8 March 1746, aged 14.

Mae Murray

A crucial blow to her movie career occurred after she married, as her fourth husband, David Mdivani, a Georgian so-called "prince" whose brothers, Serge and Alexis, married actress Pola Negri and the heiress Barbara Hutton respectively.

Mercedes Lindsay

Lindsey's sister titleholder was Ava Goldson, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2007, but later became Jasmine Alexis when Goldson resigned.

Michaelovitch

Alexis Michaelovitch, also known as Alexis of Russia

Miloslavsky

Maria Miloslavskaya (1625–1669), first wife of Tsar Alexis I of Russia

National Lampoon Presents French Comics

The book is a collection of translated comics by French comic book artists and cartoonists of the 1970s, including Gérard Lauzier, Moebius (Jean Giraud), Guido Buzzelli, Nikita Mandryka, Sole, Lozo, Jean-Claude Forest, Alexis, and Gotlib.

Pascale Mussard

She and Pierre-Alexis Dumas, who is 12 years her junior, had been successful in dismissing the naysayers’ claim that the brand would fall from grace when her uncle and Pierre-Alexis’s father, Jean-Louis Dumas, died in 2010.

Pierre Nord Alexis

Troops loyal to Firmin were finally defeated in Port-au-Prince, leaving only two strongholds, Saint-Marc and Gonaïves, opposed to the new government of Canal and Alexis.

Pierre-Alexis Dumas

Pierre-Alexis Dumas (4 June 1966) is the artistic director of Hermès International.

Rene Alexandre LeMoyne

He married on February 2, 1712, in Montreal, on his certificate are the names: Chavalier Claude de Ramezay (Governor of the Island of Montreal), Alexis de Fleury (Conseiller du Roi) and Louis D'Ailleboust (Escuyer (Squire), Sieur d'Argenteuil).

Sian Alice Group

The group finished off 2008 with a full US tour opening for A Place To Bury Strangers and the release of a 12” called Remix, which features collaborations with Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance) and Spring Heel Jack.

Tarot of Marseilles

Cartomancy with the Tarot was definitely being practised throughout France by the end of the 18th century; Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier reported an encounter with two "sibyls" who divined with Tarot cards in the last decade of the century at Avignon.

Teatro delle Quattro Fontane

The theatre opened in 1632 with the opera, Sant' Alessio (Saint Alexis; first performed in 1631), composed by Stefano Landi to a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi, a protégé of the Barberini Pope Urban VIII, later himself elected Pope Clement IX.

Tiempo de Amar

Later that year, the band released their second album under the new name, featuring Abel, Alexis, Didier, and Anthony, titled Un Poco Más.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam

The Deputy Ambassadors and their periods of service in Vietnam are: U. Alexis Johnson (June 1964–September 1965), William J. Porter (September 1965–May 1967), Eugene M. Locke (May 1967–Jan 1968), Samuel D. Berger (March 1968–Mar 1972) Charles S. Whitehouse (March 1972–August 1973).

Yelizarov

Prokopy Yelizarov, Russian statesman of 17th century, the voivod of Solikamsk province during the rule of Alexis I


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