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Just as Abraham-Louis Breguet was a founding father of mechanical watchmaking, his great-great grandson, Louis-Charles Breguet, achieved similar fame in the aviation field.
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Not to mention 3, 633 roads in France, according to the Fondation Charles-de-Gaulle: more than Louis Pasteur (3, 001) and Victor Hugo (2, 258).
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In 1830, Louis-Philippe formally accepted the crown of France after the abdication of Charles X on August 2.
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They included such pro-Fascist ideologues as Louis Ferdinand Celine, Oswald Spengler, Martin Heidegger, Ezra Pound and Charles Maurras, as well as a range of uncommitted figures who commented in his favor, such as W.B.
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The exhibition begins indoors, with portraits that were a shock because they captured women in the privacy of their homes, lost in reverie (Monet's "Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert, " 1868) or engaged in quotidian rituals like removing a glove (Charles Carolus-Duran's "The Lady With the Glove, " 1869).
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