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Antoine François Prévost

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Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (1 April 169725 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist. [1]

30 relations: Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Almoner, Amsterdam, Aneurysm, Artois, Brussels, Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc, Clarissa, Congregation of Saint Maur, David Hume, Frances Sheridan, Frankfurt, Gallia Christiana, Hesdin, Jacques Auguste de Thou, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Jumièges, Lawyer, Lettre de cachet, Manon Lescaut, Order of Saint Benedict, Paris, Pope, Princes of Conti, Prytanée National Militaire, Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux, Samuel Richardson, Society of Jesus, The Hague.

Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria.

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Almoner

An almoner is a chaplain or church officer who originally was in charge of distributing money to the deserving poor.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Aneurysm

An aneurysm is a localized, abnormal, weak spot on a blood vessel wall that causes an outward bulging, likened to a bubble or balloon.

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Artois

Artois (adjective Artesian; Artesië) is a region of northern France.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc

Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc (22 June 1698 – 20 Novembre 1769) was an 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres.

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Clarissa

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748.

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Congregation of Saint Maur

The Congregation of St.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan (née Chamberlaine) (1724 – 26 September 1766) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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Gallia Christiana

The Gallia Christiana, a type of work of which there have been several editions, is a documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the Catholic dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants.

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Hesdin

Hesdin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Jacques Auguste de Thou

Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) (8 October 1553, Paris – 7 May 1617, Paris) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

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Jumièges

Jumièges is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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Lettre de cachet

Lettres de cachet (lit. "letters of the sign/signet") were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet.

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut (L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut) is a novel by French author Abbé Prévost.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pope

The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Princes of Conti

The title of Prince of Conti (French: prince de Conti) was a French noble title, assumed by a cadet branch of the princely house of Bourbon-Condé.

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Prytanée National Militaire

The Prytanée National Militaire, originally Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand or Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche, is a French school managed by the military, offering regular secondary education as well as special preparatory classes, equivalent in level to the first years of university, for students who wish to enter French military academies.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux (Latin: Dioecesis Ebroicensis; French: Diocèse d'Evreux) is a Roman Catholic diocese in France.

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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The Hague

The Hague (Den Haag,, short for 's-Gravenhage) is a city on the western coast of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of South Holland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_François_Prévost

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