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9 De Julio De Rafaela
... Club Atlético 9 de Julio (mostly times referred as 9 de Julio de Rafaela) is an Argentine football club from the city of Rafaela in Santa Fe Province ...
Affair Of The Diamond Necklace - The Affair
... A con artist who called herself Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois conceived a plan to use the necklace to gain wealth and possibly power and royal patronage ... of an illegitimate son of Henry II of France, Jeanne de Valois had married an officer of the gendarmes, the soi-disant comte de la Motte, and was living on a small pension which ... In March 1785 she became the mistress of the Cardinal de Rohan, a former French ambassador to the court of Vienna ...
Francesco Algarotti
... friend of most of the leading authors of his times Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheïst Julien ...
Jeanne Of Valois-Saint-Rémy - The Affair of The Diamond Necklace
... them in the extravagant style that his wife avidly desired, Jeanne resolved to ask a more generous pension from the royal family due to her royal ... Queen, being a woman, would be more sympathetic to her plight Jeanne therefore made frequent visits to Versailles in the hope of catching the Queen's attention ... Nevertheless, Marie-Antoinette had been told of Jeanne's questionable lifestyle and refused to meet her ...
Nostradamus - Biography - Marriage and Healing Work
... further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence ... Finally, in 1547, he settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children—three daughters and ... a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project organized by Adam de Craponne to irrigate largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance ...

Famous quotes containing the words jeanne de and/or jeanne:

    ... tyrants deserve to be the victims of tyrants.
    Jeanne De Hericourt (1809–1875)

    May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?
    Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)