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... French banker and statesman , born of humble parentage at Bayonne , 24th October 1767 , was early employed as a clerk by the rich banker Perregaux in Paris , and suc- ceeded him in business in 1809. He soon rose to great wealth and a ...
... French banker and statesman , born of humble parentage at Bayonne , 24th October 1767 , was early employed as a clerk by the rich banker Perregaux in Paris , and suc- ceeded him in business in 1809. He soon rose to great wealth and a ...
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... French politician of the present day , was born in 1816 , of a noble family of Poitiers . He first attracted notice by the articles which he contributed to the Avenir National of Limoges , about 1835. Subsequently , he made the ...
... French politician of the present day , was born in 1816 , of a noble family of Poitiers . He first attracted notice by the articles which he contributed to the Avenir National of Limoges , about 1835. Subsequently , he made the ...
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... French astronomer , was born at Bourg , 11th July 1732. He devoted himself with such success to mathematics and astronomy , that the French Academy sent him to Berlin in 1751 , to determine the moon's parallax , at the same time that ...
... French astronomer , was born at Bourg , 11th July 1732. He devoted himself with such success to mathematics and astronomy , that the French Academy sent him to Berlin in 1751 , to determine the moon's parallax , at the same time that ...
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... French naturalist , was born of a noble family at 21st October 1792. In his Memoirs of my Youth , Barentin , in Picardy , August 1 , 1744. He was he has given us a touching account of the hard- intended for the church , but preferred ...
... French naturalist , was born of a noble family at 21st October 1792. In his Memoirs of my Youth , Barentin , in Picardy , August 1 , 1744. He was he has given us a touching account of the hard- intended for the church , but preferred ...
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... French Revolution , to a province in the south of France , bounded on the N. by Auvergne and Lyonnais ; on the E by the river Rhone ; on the S. by the Mediterranean and the counties of Foix and Roussillon ; and on the W. by Gascony and ...
... French Revolution , to a province in the south of France , bounded on the N. by Auvergne and Lyonnais ; on the E by the river Rhone ; on the S. by the Mediterranean and the counties of Foix and Roussillon ; and on the W. by Gascony and ...
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