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- Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
4: ...Venus de Milo]] now stands in the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]].
6: ...n Duperrey]], and brought home a very fine collection of animals and plants.
10: ... [[1837]], on an expedition to the South Polar regions, he sailed along a coastal area of Antarctica t...
14: ...the [[Champs-Élysées]]. [[Dumont d'Urville Station]] on Antarctica is also named after him.
16: ...s buried in the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]], [[Paris]], France. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
3: Further information: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Pre...
4: ... rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becom...
5:
6: ...elle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt
10: ...the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage. - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...es ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
2: ...Classical order|three '''orders''' or '''organizational systems''']] of [[classical architecture]], th...
4: ... its brief lifetime. A longer-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesu...
5: ...Image:Ionic base of a column.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Ionic base at the [[Erechtheum]], Athens, [[421 BC]]...
6: ...ch became so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the late... - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
9: ...re, Denis Auguste]], (1793-1848), archbishop of [[Paris]] - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
5: == Biography ==
10: ...d not be merged with France until the next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is st...
12: ...[[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s burial, dramatically emp...
14: ...aughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decision was made by Eleanor's servant, it was generally ...
16: ...usalem]] instead. When Eleanor declared her intention to stand with Raymond and the Aquitaine forces, ... - Jeanne d'Albret (2474 bytes)
6: After the death of Francis and the accession of [[Henry II of France|Henry II]] Jeanne was ma...
10: ... to her declaring [[Calvinism]] the official religion of her kingdom.
12: ... led to the outbreak of the [[French Wars of Religion]] in [[1562]]. Antoine de Bourbon chose to suppo...
14: ...ry to the king's sister Marguerite. She died in [[Paris]] two months before the wedding took place.
31: {{succession box| - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
6: ...rlos]] but that did not work out. Serious negotiations for Marguerite's marriage to [[Sebastian of Por...
12: ...ere she spent eighteen years. In [[1592]] negotiations began to dissolve her marriage to Henri IV. It ...
14: ...mer husband, Henri IV that scandalized the population. The beautiful and strong-minded Marguerite took...
16: ...nri IV and Marie's children. Marguerite died in [[Paris]] on [[May 27]], [[1615]], and is buried in the C...
18: ==Marguerite de Valois in fiction== - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
14: ... and female lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...e inherited. In this sort of [[Semi-Salic]] situation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male...
19: ...], where preparations were made for Mary's coronation.
21: ==Coronation==
22: ... of the Queen and the unique ceremony, the coronation was the talk of Europe. - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...''Jacques le fataliste'', which challenged conventions regarding [[novel]]s and their structure and co...
7: ...ve of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...entary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
14: ...tion]]. It is worth noticing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot ...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[...
9: ...od, if not brilliant, but unfortunately her education was both imperfect and desultory. Her father had...
11: ...beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eighte...
13: ...ower, she was treated with liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent nephew [[Pet...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 == - Catherine of Valois (1918 bytes)
3:
5: ...ly exiled from court, suspicion falling on her nationality. The regents kept her away from her child,... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: ...pawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...mdash; while her detractors saw her life as a cautionary tale. - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ... guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
13: ...red as child, Maria-Antonia had little real education. She was flighty, artistic and read almost nothi...
22: ...lection of gems was valued at approximately 2 million [[livre]]s. Marie-Antoinette then received King ...
27: ...nt back to [[Austria]]. The young dauphine's position was not helped by the fact that she had earned t...
30: ...she was assisted out of bed and dressed by the various high-ranking noblewomen who were her ladies-in-... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...27), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ... Fé©®]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna É©reann]] in...
10: ...the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
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14: ...but was re-elected in the 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...er vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...elations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a ...
31: ...lth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to...
33: ...use of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...rmany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising ...
10: ...er fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]],...
12: ...ts in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament foc...
14: ...tions under [[socialism]], which later caused tensions with [[Vladimir Lenin]].
16: ...rging with Lithuania's social democratic organisation. Despite living in Germany for most of her adult... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...'s arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...er the end of [[World War I]], she ran as a Coalition candidate for Parliament in the Smethwick riding... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
3: ...Flora Tristan''', born [[April 7]], [[1803]] in [[Paris, France]] - died [[November 14]], [[1844]] in [[B...
5: ...iod. The diary was published in 1838 as P鲩grinations d'une paria.
7: [[Mario Vargas Llosa]], in his historical novel [[The way...
9: ...omenades in London'' (1840), and ''The Workers' Union'' (1843).
13: .../www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm Complete Biography] - Emma Abbott (633 bytes)
2: ...d States]], where she enjoyed considerable reputation. In [[1873]] she married E. J. Wethereil. She ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...f the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...[[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, aft...
10: ...major European museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. The Salon critics claimed th...
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