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Ville-du-Pont (French pronunciation: [vil dy pɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It was merged into the new commune Pays-de-Montbenoît on 1 January 2025.
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The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1]
François du Pont Duvivier was born September 5, 1676, at Sérignac , province of Saintonge, France. He became ensign, and navy captain in Acadia and Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island). He died in Louisbourg on November 1, 1714. Duvivier was second of ten children. His parents Hugues Du Pont and Marie Hérauld, of Gourville.
Henry and Ruth had two children, Pauline Louise du Pont (1918–2007) and Ruth Ellen du Pont Lord (1922–2014). Their younger daughter, Ruth, wrote a memoir about her father and his estate, Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait (Yale University Press, 1999), which portrayed du Pont as a kindly but aloof parent. [7]
The du Pont family (English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /) [1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.
The longtime paramour of a prominent, married Manhattan art gallerist allegedly neglected and starved him to death — and tried to steal his $50 million fortune, his family claims in court papers.
Following the death of the king and his grandson's ascension to the throne as Louis XVI, the new Queen Marie Antoinette had Jeanne exiled to the Abbey du Pont-aux-Dames near Meaux-en-Brie. [38] At first she was met coldly by the nuns, but soon enough they softened to her timid ways and opened up to her, most of all the abbess Madame de la Roche ...