Louis d’Orléans was born on 13 March 1372 in the Hôtel Saint-Pol, Paris, France, to Charles V de Valois (1338-1380) and Jeanne de Bourbon (1338-1378), and died on 23 November 1407 in Le Marais, Paris, France, of unspecified causes. He married Valentina Visconti (1371-1408) on 17 August 1389 in Melun, France.
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Viscountess Dumoulin, a distant cousin (through her mother) of de la Fontaine, was instrumental in bringing the Brothers of the Christian Schools to Château-Thierry in 1831. A school was opened on Rue de la Madeleine with the approval of Mayor Poan de Sapincourt and the prefect. It was a three-classroom school with three brothers and a headmaster. The Viscountess was born in 1755 and died in 1831 in Château-Thierry.
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Durupt
Date:1836
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Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
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He died in the Leiden plague epidemic of 1602. His son Lucas Trelcatius the younger replaced him as preacher and professor in 1603, but died himself in 1607 after publishing Institutiones Theologicae.
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval career and in 1785 was appointed to lead a scientific expedition around the world.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was a French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
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Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.
Date:1558
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Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:1670
Size 16 x 23 cms
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Born in Lyon, he was a brother of Albert de Gondi (two of whose sons, Henri and Jean-François, succeeded Pierre as bishop of Paris) and a protégé of Catherine de Médicis. In turn, he became bishop of Langres (1565), bishop of Paris (1570), chancellor and grand almoner to Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles IX of France.
Artist: Claude Duflos
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