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2 unusual facts about Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai


Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai

Merlin de Douai was closely allied with his namesake Merlin of Thionville and, after the start of the Thermidorian Reaction which brought about the fall of Robespierre in 1794, he became president of the Convention and a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

His efforts were primarily directed to the prevention of any new gathering of powers by the Jacobin Club, the Commune, and the Revolutionary Tribunal.


1988 Canadian Grand Prix

By the middle of the race Philippe Streiff brought his AGS up to the fifth place, ahead of Andrea de Cesaris' Rial in sixth.

1989 Spanish Grand Prix

Philippe Alliot snared a career best fifth place on the grid in his Larrousse, proving that both the Lola chassis and the Lamborghini V12 designed by Mauro Forghieri was starting to come good.

Alev Lenz

She produced her debutalbum Storytelling Piano PLaying Fräulein with Don Philippe in Berlin, member of the group Freundeskreis.

Bamberg Magical Dynasty

Eliaser’s fellow magicians at the time were Joseph Pinetti, Gustavus Katterfelto, Count Cagliostro, Philippe, and many other noted magicians of the 18th century.

Body to Body

Body to Body (film), 2003 French language film starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Philippe Torreton

Borie-Manoux

Borie-Manoux is completely owned by the Castéja family, with Philippe Castéja as current CEO.

Charles De Meaux

In 1997 in order to produce his first film, Le pont du Trieur (co-written with Philippe Parreno), he founded the production company Anna Sanders Films, with Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Xavier Douroux and Franck Gautherot (both from the Consortium de Dijon), and then Dominique Gonzales-Foerster.

Château de Saint-Cloud

After the death of Jean-François de Gondi in 1654, the château was inherited in turn by Philippe-Emmanuel de Gondi and then by his nephew Henri de Gondi, known as the duc de Retz.

Claude Le Péron

He moved to Nantes in 1969, where he played in local bands with musicians such as Jacky Mascarel, and Philippe Grandvoinet (New Direction).

Dagobert II

This story was published as historical fact in a 1960s French book by Gérard de Sède, entitled Le Tresor Maudit de Rennes-le-Chateau, that also reproduced Philippe de Chérisey's fabricated "parchments".

Écréhous

Philippe Pinel lived on Bliantch'Île from 1848 to 1898 and exchanged gifts with Queen Victoria.

Eleonore Pameijer

Eleonore Pameijer has performed as soloist with many orchestras and ensembles led by conductors such as David Porcelijn, Arthuro Tamayo, Richard Dufallo, Ton Koopman, Oliver Knussen, Jaap van Zweden, Kenneth Montgomery, Ingo Metzmacher, Peter Eötvös, Philippe Entremont and Alexander Vedernikov.

Élisabeth de Rothschild

Philippe de Rothschild's late-in-life memoirs (Milady Vine, written in collaboration with his friend and companion, the British director Joan Littlewood) described his marriage to Lili as one of great passion but also enormous tempestuousness and despair.

Galeazzo Maria Alvise Emanuele Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Morignano

Donna Ginevra dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, September 15, 1962 –), married in Rome, January 16, 1988 Frédéric Philippe Marie François, Comte de La Rochefoucauld (Paris, November 20, 1955 –), by whom she had two daughters and a son.

Guillaume le Vinier

Guillaume was born into a wealthy bourgeois family of Arras, the son of Philippe le Vinier and Alent.

Havré Castle

Wounded by a musket Charles-Philippe was treated by Ambroise Paré at Castle Havré, who was the first surgeon to French King Charles IX and a prominent surgeon of his time.

Hellenikon Metropolitan Park

In 2005, the international team led by architects David Serero, Elena Fernandez and landscape architect Philippe Coignet won the international competition to design a metropolitan park on the former site of the Hellenikon Airport, over more than 300 teams of architects.

Henri Mulet

He served as an organist in several churches in Paris {choirmaster of the basilica of Sacré-Coeur, Paris and titular organist at St Pierre-de-Montrouge (until 1901), St Eustache, Ste Marie des Batignolles (1910), St Roch (1912), and finally St Philippe du Roule in Paris}.

Jean Graton

His works are continued by Philippe Graton and the Studio Graton, which he created himself.

Jean Maximilien Lamarque

After the Revolution of 1830, he was given command of military forces in order to suppress Legitimist risings against the new July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe.

Jean-Marc Philippe

Jean-Marc Philippe (died November 12, 2008) was the creator of KEO, a proposed space time capsule.

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil

Jean-Philippe Salabreuil (25 May 1940, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 27 February 1970, Paris), real name Jean-Pierre Steinbach, was a French poet.

Joinville Island

Joinville Island was discovered and charted roughly during 1838 by a French expedition commanded by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Prince François, Prince of Joinville (1818–1900), the third son of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

L'Infini

The magazine has published work by Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and other notable writers and young authors such as Marc-Edouard Nabe, Pierre Bourgeade, François Meyronnis, Yannick Haenel, Frédéric Berthet, David di Nota, Clément Rosset, Alexandre Duval-Stalla, Chantal Thomas, Thomas Ravier, Cécile Guilbert, Bernard Sichère, Raphaël Denys, Alessandro Mercuri, Steven Sampson...

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

La Grande Bouffe

There they find the old caretaker, Hector, who has innocently prepared everything for the great feast, and a Chinese visitor who is there to offer a job to the magistrate in faraway China, which Philippe politely rejects with the phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", quoting Virgil.

Libération

Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

Louis Philippe was hardly fifteen when he and his young cousin Princess Henriette of France (1727–1752), the second daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, fell in love.

Love in the Key of C

The video for the single was directed by Philippe Gautier and featured Shelley Preston, who was working as a backing singer for Carlisle at the time.

Mademoiselle de Valois

Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669–1728) daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and Princess Henrietta of England

Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (1700–1761) daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Françoise Marie de Bourbon

Male Call

Beginning in 1995, Dargaud published a comics series entitled Pin-Up, aimed mainly at adults, written by Yann Le Pennetier and drawn by Philippe Berthet.

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

During the Orléans’ time in France prior to Louis-Philippe's coronation, the family lived in the Palais-Royal which had been the home of Louis Philippe's father, the previous Duke of Orléans.

Nizier Anthelme Philippe

Philippe himself died on 2 August 1905 at the age of 56, in L'Arbresle, Rhône, France where he was living.

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe A. Guye FRS (12 June 1862 – 27 March 1922) was a Swiss chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry".

Philippe Ambroise Eugène Ghislain d'Olmen de Poederlé

Philippe Ambroise Eugène Ghislain d'Olmen de Poederlé (7 December 1773, Brussels - 2 October 1815, Brussels) was a soldier and politician of the Austrian Netherlands.

Philippe Beck

Philippe Beck, born in Strasbourg on April 21, 1963, is a French poet, writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes, in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Philippe Benetton

Philippe Benetton (born Cahors, 18 May 1968) is a former French rugby union footballer and currently head coach of the Fédérale 1 club Limoges.

Philippe Gas

After studying law at Panthéon-Assas University and spending two years with General Motors, Philippe Gas joined Disney in 1991 as finance controller and served on the team that opened Disneyland Paris in April 1992.

Philippe Hamel

Philippe Hamel (October 12, 1884 – January 22, 1954) was a nationalist and progressive politician in Quebec, Canada.

Philippe Nys

1997 - Logic of Place and Human Work (Logique du lieu et œuvre humaine), Editors : Augustin Berque and Philippe Nys, Bruxelles, Editions Ousia, collection Recueil

Philippe Rahm

In 2002, Philippe Rahm was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architectural Venice Biennale, Italy, and was one of the 25 Manifesto's Architects of Aaron Betsky's 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale.

Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla

With aid from the New Panama Canal Company's New York attorney, William Nelson Cromwell, he persuaded the government to select Panama as the canal site, as opposed to the popular alternative, Nicaragua.

Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

He was born at Quebec City in 1786, the son of seigneur Pierre-Ignace Aubert de Gaspé and Catherine Tarieu de Lanaudière, the daughter of seigneur Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière.

Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours

The occasion of his marriage in 1840 with Victoria was marked by a check to Louis-Philippe's government in the form of a refusal to bestow the marriage dowry proposed by Adolphe Thiers in the Chamber of Deputies.

Richard Texier

1990 Richard Texier Paintings 1989-1990, texts by Christine Buci- Gluckmann, Philippe Carteron, Michel Cassé, and Michel Ricci, ed Aaltus Cassendi Paris France 144 pages in French/English

Rite of Memphis-Misraim

With the overthrow of Louis-Philippe in 1848, the Order was revived on March 5, with its most prominent member being Louis Blanc, a socialist member of the provisional government with responsibility for the National Workshops.

Zep

Zep (born December 15, 1967) is the pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis, a comics creator from Switzerland, known for his series Titeuf, a popular character in French-speaking countries, and Tchô!, the associated Franco-Belgian comics magazine.


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