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2 unusual facts about Duchesne


Annibale Annibaldi

Duchesne, Histoire de tous les cardinaux français de naissance (Paris, 1699), II, 277, 278;

Pope John XI

According to Liutprand of Cremona (Antapodosis, ii. c. 48) and the "Liber Pontificalis," he was the natural son of Pope Sergius III (904–911), ("Johannes, natione Romanus ex patre Sergio papa," "Liber Pont." ed. Duchesne, II, 243).


David Sam

He was a Duchesne County Attorney from 1966 to 1972, and served as a Duchesne County Commissioner from 1972 to 1974.

Ernest Duchesne

Duchesne was posthumously honoured in 1949, 5 years after Alexander Fleming had received the Nobel Prize.

Inscription of Abercius

De Rossi and Duchesne at once recognized in it phrases similar to those in the epitaph of Abercius.

John Myrdhin Reynolds

At Columbia University Reynolds pursued Islamic Studies under Arthur Jeffrey along with Iranian Studies under J. Duchesne-Guillemin.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

In 1815, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Duchesne followed Barat's instructions and established a Convent of the Sacred Heart in Paris, where she both opened a school and became the Mistress of novices.

Duchesne returned to her family where she lived at their country home, along with two aunts, who had been Visitandines at Romans-sur-Isère.


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