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  • During the coming French Revolution, Louis Philippe, who by then had inherited the title Duc d’Orléans, would rename himself Philippe Egalité but was nonetheless sent to the guillotine.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • During the coming French Revolution, Louis Philippe, who by then had inherited the title Duc d’Orléans, would rename himself Philippe Egalité but was nonetheless sent to the guillotine.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • In his interview Duc is reported to have stated: “the Enterprise Self-Defense unit along with the militia captured a pilot, who they later turned over to higher authorities.”

    Dooley, James E. 1990

  • Vietnam (GVN) prisoners who had been captured at Sa Huynh in Duc Pho

    McDonnell, John T. 1990

  • She called the Duc d'Alençon and said: 'My fair duke, array your men, for, by my staff, I would fain see Paris more closely than I have seen it yet.'

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • Madame la Dauphine, greatly pleased with her new position, in that she represented the person of the Queen, had already given birth to M. le Duc de Bourgogne; she now brought into the world a second son, who was at once entitled Duc d'Anjou.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Our first acquaintance with it was at Bar le Duc, which is not on the

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • People asked each other if this was really the same man they had known as the Duc de Bourgogne, whether he was a vision or a reality?

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The shooting of the Duc was a fine opportunity for his enemies.

    Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

  • At the sound of his voice, the so-called Duc flung his weapon two hundred yards in the air, and with the bound of a hunted tiger buried himself in the turmoil of the French capital.

    Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872

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