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Français · Inde: Faits et chiffres intéressants sur les élections
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Duc de Cleves, et Faits Francais (Paris, 1569), fol.
Notes to "The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France." Carleton Cunningham 1993
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Boccaccio's De casis (Ulm, 1473), and his De la Ruyne des nobles hommes et femmes (Bruges, 1476); during the same period Antwerp and Paris publish the Recueil des histoires de Troie, the Faits et prouesses de Jason, the Destruction de Troie la grant.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968
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Even where there is a heading, "Sundry Events" (_Faits divers_, a favorite column in the French papers), it is because they are connected with the police.
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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Thus, in a French pseudo-historic romance, _Les Faits des
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The list shows that manuals of devotion and chivalry were still in chief request, books like the _Order of Chivalry_, _Faits of Arms_, and the _Golden Legend_, which last Caxton translated himself, as well as _Reynard the Fox_, and a
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The fifteenth century is rich in historical writings of every kind -- compilations of general history, domestic chronicles, such as the _Livre des Faits du bon Messire Jean le Maingre, dit Bouciquaut_, official chronicles both of the French and Burgundian parties, journals and memoirs.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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As he surmised, the murder was printed among the "_Faits Divers_;" it gave his name and the story of the tragedy.
Bohemian Days Three American Tales George Alfred Townsend 1877
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The only place where we have seen any statement of Lamarck's earlier opinions is in his _Recherches sur les Causes des principaux Faits physiques_, which was written, as the "advertisement" states, "about eighteen years" before its publication in 1794.
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Recherches sur les Causes des principaux Faits physiques, et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs; de la Chaleur produite par le frottement des corps solides entre eux; de la Chaleur qui se rend sensible dans les décompositions subites, dans les effervescences et dans le corps de beaucoup d'animaux pendant la durée de leur vie; de la Causticité, de la
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