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2. Philosophy in the Bedroom - Wikipedia

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   Philosophy in the Boudoir (French: La philosophie dans le boudoir) is a 1795 book by the Marquis de Sade written in the form of a dramatic dialogue. Set in a boudoir (which is not a bedroom despite the title of this entry and one English translation of the book) the two lead characters make the argument that the only moral system that reinforces the recent political revolution is libertinism ...

3. Marquis Who's Who - Wikipedia

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   Marquis Who's Who, also known as A.N. Marquis Company, (/ ˈmɑːrkwɪs / or / mɑːrˈkiː /) is an American publisher of a number of directories containing short biographies. The books usually are entitled Who's Who in... followed by some subject, such as Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Asia, Who's Who in the ...

4. Louis XVI furniture - Wikipedia

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   A set of four of these chairs was made by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené for Madame Elizabeth, sister of Marie-Antoinette, and was delivered in 1789, the year of the beginning of the French Revolution. [9] Another original type that appeared under Louis XVI was the Fauteul de Bureau, or office chair. A set was made by Henri Jacob, brother of ...

5. Archy and Mehitabel - Wikipedia

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   Marquis introduced Archy into his daily newspaper column at New York's Evening Sun.Archy—whose name was always written in lower case in the book titles, but was upper case when Marquis would write about him in narrative form—was a cockroach who had been a free verse poet in a previous life, and took to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the newspaper office when everyone in ...

6. Abel-François Poisson - Wikipedia

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   Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, marquis de Marigny (French pronunciation: [abɛl fʁɑ̃swa pwasɔ̃ də vɑ̃djɛʁ maʁki də maʁiɲi]) and marquis de Menars (1727 – 12 May 1781), often referred to simply as marquis de Marigny, was a French nobleman who served as the director general of the King's Buildings. He was the brother of ...

7. Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States

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   Portrait of General Lafayette by Samuel Morse in 1826. From July 1824 to September 1825, the French Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving major general of the American Revolutionary War, made a tour of the 24 states in the United States. He was received by the populace with a hero's welcome at many stops, and many honors and monuments were ...