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  • Thumbnail for Pierre Séguier
    grandfather, Pierre Séguier (1504–1580), was président à mortier in the parliament of Paris from 1554 to 1576, and the chancellor's father, Jean Séguier, a seigneur...
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  • Séguier is a French surname. Atlantica-Séguier (Created in 1984), French publishing house. Jean-François Séguier (1703–1784), French astronomer and botanist...
    564 bytes (106 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2020
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    prototypes, he presented the device to the public in 1645, dedicating it to Pierre Séguier, then chancellor of France. Pascal built around twenty more machines...
    50 KB (5,458 words) - 20:22, 25 August 2024
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    attempts to prevent her from obtaining the position. With the aid of Pierre Séguier, she had the Parlement of Paris revoke the will of the late king, which...
    30 KB (3,522 words) - 16:45, 17 August 2024
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    to a committee that supervised La Gazette. Mézeray won the favor of Pierre Séguier and was given the title "Historiographer to the King of France". In...
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    France was her treatment of one of Richelieu's men, the Chancellor Pierre Séguier. Séguier had brusquely interrogated Anne in 1637 (like a "common criminal"...
    157 KB (18,336 words) - 16:53, 26 August 2024
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    Eight Auspicious Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism. A painting of Chancellor Pierre Séguier with a parasol hoisted above his head, by Charles Le Brun, 1670 Japanese...
    68 KB (7,904 words) - 19:20, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Charles d'Albert, 2nd Duke of Luynes
    Louis Charles married Louise Marie Séguier, Marquise of O (1629–1651), a relative of Chancellor Pierre Séguier. Together, they were the parents of six...
    11 KB (1,067 words) - 19:08, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues
    Henri, Duc de Verneuil 1601 1603 1682 Married Charlotte Seguier, daughter of Pierre Séguier, Duc de Villemor. Gabrielle Angelique, called Mademoiselle...
    5 KB (507 words) - 09:04, 21 August 2024
  • Maximilien de Béthune. A few do not have this particle: for example, Pierre Séguier, Lord Chancellor of France. The particle can also be du ('of the' in...
    36 KB (4,926 words) - 16:41, 15 August 2024
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    upon his death in 1642, Pierre Séguier, the Chancellor of France, succeeded him. King Louis XIV adopted the function when Séguier died in 1672; since then...
    29 KB (2,740 words) - 09:43, 22 August 2024
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    farm and the castle of Ladoucette. The castle was built in 1533 by Pierre Séguier. In the 19th century, the castle was the property of the senator Charles-Loetitia...
    15 KB (1,006 words) - 14:04, 20 July 2024
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    May 13 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary (d. 1654) May 28 – Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672) June 3 – Julius Frederick, Duke of...
    23 KB (2,818 words) - 09:10, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles-Marie-Napoléon de Beaufort d'Hautpoul
    Beaufort d'Hautpoul (seated) as commanding officer of the Tlemcen subdivision in the Province of Oran. Standing: staff captain Pierre Séguier. Circa 1856....
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  • Thumbnail for François Girardon
    His talent attracted the attention of the Chancellor of Louis XIV, Pierre Séguier, a serious patron of the arts, who arranged for him to work in the studio...
    7 KB (900 words) - 07:57, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean-François Séguier
    Jean-François Séguier (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa segje]; 25 November 1703 – 1 September 1784) was a French archaeologist, epigraphist, astronomer...
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  • Thumbnail for Christiaan Huygens
    Coster in The Hague, he did not make much money from his invention. Pierre Séguier refused him any French rights, while Simon Douw in Rotterdam and Ahasuerus...
    134 KB (14,092 words) - 20:02, 2 September 2024
  • 1207) 1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419) 1588 – Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 1672) 1589 – Robert...
    42 KB (4,346 words) - 07:08, 3 July 2024
  • exists in a manuscript of the Fonds Coislin, the library formed by Pierre Séguier. The first modern printed edition of the work was published by the Aldine...
    17 KB (1,382 words) - 10:04, 31 August 2024
  • funerary orations for Theresa of Avila, Bernini, Maria Theresa of Spain, Pierre Séguier, Rose de Sainte-Marie de Lima, Charles Borromeo and Saint Louis. Académie...
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