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  2. Marie Thérèse Coincoin - Wikipedia

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    Marie Thérèse Coincoin, [a] born as Coincoin (with no surname), [1] also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, [2] and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, [3] [4] (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, [1] and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish).

  3. In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

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    The Birth of A la recherche du temps perdu, French Forum Publishers, 1987. Pugh, Anthony. The Growth of A la recherche du temps perdu: A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, University of Toronto Press, 2004 (two volumes). Rose, Phyllis. The Year of Reading Proust. New York: Scribner, 1997. ISBN 0-684-83984-9

  4. The Quest of the Absolute - Wikipedia

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    The Quest of the Absolute (French: La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. [1] The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée; was published by itself in 1839 by Charpentier; and took its final place as a part of the Comédie in 1845.

  5. The Search for Truth by Natural Light - Wikipedia

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    The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but that was lost around 1700 and remained lost until a partial copy ...

  6. Dichotomic search - Wikipedia

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    There is thus some looseness in the definition. Though there may indeed be only two paths from any node, there are thus three possibilities at each step: choose one onwards path or the other, or stop at this node. Dichotomic searches are often used in repair manuals, sometimes graphically illustrated with a flowchart similar to a fault tree.

  7. COIN (board game) - Wikipedia

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    COIN (short for COunterINsurgency) is a series of multiplayer asymmetric strategy board wargames simulating historic insurgency and counter-insurgency conflicts and irregular warfares throughout the world. It is published by GMT Games. It consists of the main series of games, numbered as volumes, and the spinoff Irregular Conflicts series ("ICS ...

  8. French sol - Wikipedia

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    The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus . Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language .

  9. Numismatics - Wikipedia

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    Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects.. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods.