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Perche (French: le Perche) is a former province or county of northwestern France, best known for its forests and its Percheron work horse. [1]

92 relations: Ancien Régime, Angevin Empire, Armorica, Arrou, Authon-du-Perche, Auvergne horse, Avesgaud de Bellême, Avre (Eure), Battle of Bouvines, Bellême, Braye (river), Bresolettes, Brezolles, Ceton, Charles II, Count of Alençon, Chateau and Seigneurie de Launay, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Chouan, Christophe Antoine Gerle, Claude Caroillon Destillières, Claude de Sainctes, Condé-sur-Huisne, Counts and dukes of Alençon, Counts and Viscounts of Châteaudun, Crown lands of France, Digny, Eugène Lavieille, Eure-et-Loir, François de Laval, French Canadians, French diaspora, Généralité, George-Étienne Cartier, Haplogroup I-M170, Haplogroup I-M438, Haras national du Pin, History of Quebec French, Huisne, Italian exonyms, Jacques Goulet, James Rossant, Jean Blouf, Jean Guyon, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye, La Loupe, Laure Colladant, List of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789, Loir, Longny-au-Perche, Louise Mauger, ..., Lower Normandy, Luigny, Malak Jân Nemati, Margaret of L'Aigle, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Marie Ernestine Lavieille, Marin Boucher, Mayenne (river), Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun, Micy Abbey, Montmirail, Sarthe, Mortagne-au-Perche, Nicolas Denisot, Noël Juchereau, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Norman Canadian, Normandy, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Oaklawn Farm, Orne, Pays d'Ouche, Pays de la Loire, Père Pamphile, Percale, Percheron, Poitevin horse, Pure laine, Régiment de Soissonnais, Rémalard, René de Froulay de Tessé, Robert Giffard de Moncel, Robert Giguère, Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans, Sandleford, Sarthe (river), Senonches, Spanish-Norman horse, Thymerais, Tironensian Order, Touques (river), Tourouvre, Verneuil-sur-Avre. Expand index (42 more) »

Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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Angevin Empire

The Angevin Empire (L'Empire Plantagenêt) is a collective exonym referring to the possessions of the Angevin kings of England, who also held lands in France, during the 12th and 13th centuries.

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Armorica

Armorica or Aremorica is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul between the Seine and the Loire that includes the Brittany Peninsula, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic Coast.

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Arrou

Arrou is a former commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Authon-du-Perche

Authon-du-Perche is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Auvergne horse

The Auvergne horse (French cheval d'Auvergne) is a breed of light draft horse from the Auvergne region of south central France.

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Avesgaud de Bellême

Avesgaud (Latin Avesgaudus) (died c. 1036) was a French nobleman, a member of the powerful House of Bellême and was the Bishop of Le Mans from 997 until his death.

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Avre (Eure)

The Avre is a river in France and a left tributary of the River Eure.

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Battle of Bouvines

The Battle of Bouvines, was a medieval battle fought on 27 July 1214 near the town of Bouvines in the County of Flanders.

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Bellême

Bellême is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.

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Braye (river)

The Braye is a river of France, and a right tributary of the river Loir.

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Bresolettes

Bresolettes is a former commune in the Orne department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.

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Brezolles

Brezolles is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Ceton

Ceton is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

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Charles II, Count of Alençon

Charles II of Alençon, called the Magnanimous (1297 – 26 August 1346) was the second son of Charles of Valois and his first wife Margaret, Countess of Anjou, and brother of Philip VI of France.

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Chateau and Seigneurie de Launay

The Chateau and Seigneurie de Launay are the estates and Castle of Launay that are situated in western France in the Perche Sarthois.

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Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais

Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais is a commune Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Chouan

Chouan ("the silent one", or "owl") is a French surname.

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Christophe Antoine Gerle

Christophe Antoine Gerle (1736-c. 1801), French revolutionist and mystic, was born at Riom in Auvergne.

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Claude Caroillon Destillières

Claude-Xavier Caroillon-Destillières (14 July 1748 – May 1814) (or Carvillon-Destillières, Carvillon des Tillières, occasionally Carvillon d'Estillière) was a French industrialist and speculator during the French Revolution and the subsequent First Empire, who took opportunity of the chaotic political situation to become immensely wealthy.

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Claude de Sainctes

Claude de Sainctes (b. at Perche, 1525; d. at Crèvecoeur, 1591) was a French Catholic controversialist.

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Condé-sur-Huisne

Condé-sur-Huisne is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

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Counts and dukes of Alençon

Several counts and then royal dukes of Alençon have figured in French history.

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Counts and Viscounts of Châteaudun

The County of Châteaudun was held in the 9th century by counts who also held the County of Blois.

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Crown lands of France

The crown lands, crown estate, royal domain or (in French) domaine royal (from demesne) of France refers to the lands, fiefs and rights directly possessed by the kings of France.

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Digny

Digny is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Eugène Lavieille

Eugène Lavieille (November 29, 1820 in Paris – January 8, 1889 in Paris) was a French painter.

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Eure-et-Loir

Eure-et-Loir is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers.

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François de Laval

Saint Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, M.E.P., commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII.

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French Canadians

French Canadians (also referred to as Franco-Canadians or Canadiens; Canadien(ne)s français(es)) are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in Canada from the 17th century onward.

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French diaspora

The French diaspora designates the diaspora from France and their descendants.

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Généralité

Recettes générales, commonly known as généralités, were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current préfectures.

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George-Étienne Cartier

Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, (pronounced; September 6, 1814May 20, 1873) was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation.

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Haplogroup I-M170

Haplogroup I (M170) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.

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Haplogroup I-M438

Haplogroup I-M438, also known as I2 (and until 2007 as I1b), is a human DNA Y-chromosome haplogroup, a subclade of Haplogroup I-M170.

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Haras national du Pin

The Haras national du Pin, a French national stud, is located in Le Pin-au-Haras district, in the Orne (61) department of the southern Normandy region.

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History of Quebec French

Quebec French is substantially different in pronunciation and vocabulary to the French of Europe and that of France's Second Empire colonies in Africa and Asia.

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Huisne

The Huisne is a long river in France.

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Italian exonyms

Below is list of Italian language exonyms for places in non-Italian-speaking areas of Europe: In recent years, the use of Italian exonyms for lesser known places has significantly decreased, in favour of the foreign toponym.

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Jacques Goulet

Jacques Goulet (Baptised April 17, 1615 – Died November 26, 1688) was a pioneer settler to Canada who was part of the Percheron immigration movement recruited to colonize the shores of the Saint Laurence River at Québec in New France (now Québec, Canada), a miller and the ancestor of virtually all of the Goulets in North America.

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James Rossant

James Stephan Rossant (August 17, 1928 – December 15, 2009) was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture.

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Jean Blouf

Jean Blouf, or Plouf (Plouffe in modern French or Ploof in Americanized French) (1643, Paris - 15 April 1700, Montréal), was a pioneer of New France's Quebec.

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Jean Guyon

Jean Guyon du Buisson (September 18, 1592 – May 30, 1663) was the patriarch of one of the earliest families to settle on the North shore of New France's St. Lawrence River.

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Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye

Joseph-Geneviève, comte de Puisaye (6 March 1755 – 13 September 1827) was a minor French nobleman who fought as a counter-revolutionary during the French Revolution, leading two unsuccessful invasions from England.

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La Loupe

La Loupe is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Laure Colladant

Laure Colladant is a contemporary French fortepianist.

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List of members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789

This list aims to display alphabetically the 1,145 titular deputies (291 deputies of the clergy, 270 of the nobility and 584 of the Third Estate-commoners) elected to the Estates-General of 1789, which became the National Assembly on 17 June 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July 1789; as well as the alternate delegates who sat.

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Loir

The Loir is a long river in western France.

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Longny-au-Perche

Longny-au-Perche is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

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Louise Mauger

Louise Mauger (1598 – March 1690) was one of the pioneers in the French colonial settlement of Montreal in North America.

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Lower Normandy

Lower Normandy (Basse-Normandie,; Basse-Normaundie) is a former administrative region of France.

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Luigny

Luigny is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Malak Jân Nemati

Malak Jân Nemati (or Malek Jân Nemati) was born in 1906 in Jeyhounabad, a village in Iranian Kurdistan.

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Margaret of L'Aigle

Margaret of L'Aigle (Marguerite de L'Aigle, Margarita de L’Aigle) (died 1141) was a Queen consort of Navarre as the first wife to García Ramírez of Navarre.

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Margaret, Countess of Anjou

Margaret, Countess of Anjou (1272 – 31 December 1299) was Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage.

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Marie Ernestine Lavieille

Marie Ernestine Lavieille (or Marie Lavieille) (October 11, 1852 in Barbizon – November 12, 1937 in Le Mans) was a French painter.

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Marin Boucher

Marin Boucher (1587 or 1589–1671), was a pioneer of early New France and one of the most prolific ancestors of French Canada, being the ancestor of most of the Bouchers of North America, particularly in the Province of Quebec, Northern New Brunswick, Ontario and Western Canada.

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Mayenne (river)

The Mayenne is a long river in western France principally located in the French region of Pays de la Loire.

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Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun

Melisende (d. before 1040), Viscountess of Châteaudun, daughter of Hugues, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Hildegarde, Viscountess of Châteaudun.

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Micy Abbey

Micy Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy (Abbaye Saint-Mesmin de Micy), sometimes referred to as Micy, was a Benedictine abbey near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, located on the territory of the present commune of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin.

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Montmirail, Sarthe

Montmirail is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

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Mortagne-au-Perche

Mortagne-au-Perche is a commune in the Orne department in Normandy, north-western France.

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Nicolas Denisot

Nicolas Denisot, also Nicholas Denizot, (1515–1559) was a French Renaissance poet and painter.

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Noël Juchereau

Noël Juchereau, Sieur des Chatelets (30 August 1593 – c. 31 July 1648) was an early pioneer in New France (now Québec, Canada), and a member of the Company of One Hundred Associates sinnce in formation in 1627.

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Nogent-le-Rotrou

Nogent-le-Rotrou is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Norman Canadian

Norman Canadians are Canadians who can be either French speaking or English speaking.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Our Lady of Grace), also nicknamed NDG, is a residential neighbourhood of Montreal in the city's West End, with a population of 67,475 (2016).

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Oaklawn Farm

Oaklawn Farm is a historic property in Wayne, Illinois.

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Orne

Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Pays d'Ouche

The Pays d'Ouche is an historical and geographical region in Normandy.

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Pays de la Loire

Pays de la Loire (Broioù al Liger, meaning Loire Country) is one of the 18 regions of France.

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Père Pamphile

Père Pamphile is a fictional character in the novel Abbé Jules (fr. L'Abbé Jules), by the French writer Octave Mirbeau (1888).

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Percale

Percale is a closely woven plain-weave fabric often used for bed covers.

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Percheron

The Percheron is a breed of draft horse that originated in the Huisne river valley in western France, part of the former Perche province from which the breed takes its name.

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Poitevin horse

The Poitevin, also called Mulassier ("mule-breeder"), Poitevin Mulassier or Trait Mulassier is a draft horse from the Poitou area of France.

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Pure laine

The French term pure laine, literally meaning pure wool (and often translated as dyed-in-the-wool), refers to those whose ancestry is exclusively French-Canadian.

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Régiment de Soissonnais

The Régiment de Soissonnais has a long history in the French armed forces.

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Rémalard

Rémalard is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

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René de Froulay de Tessé

René de Froulay, Comte de Tessé (14 May 1648 – 30 March 1725) was a French soldier and diplomat during the reign of Louis XIV and the 1715-1723 Regency.

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Robert Giffard de Moncel

Robert Giffard de Moncel (~1587 Autheuil, France – June 14, 1668 Beauport, New France) was a Perche-based surgeon and apothecary who became New France's first colonizing seigneur.

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Robert Giguère

Robert Giguère dit Despins (March 9, 1616 – August 1709) was an early pioneer in New France, one of the founders of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec and the progenitor of virtually all the Giguères in North America.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans (Latin: Dioecesis Aurelianensis; French: Diocèse d'Orléans) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Sandleford

Sandleford is a hamlet and former parish in the English county of Berkshire.

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Sarthe (river)

The Sarthe is a long river in western France.

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Senonches

Senonches is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France.

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Spanish-Norman horse

The Spanish-Norman horse is a warmblood horse breed that is the result of crosses between two much older breeds – the Andalusian of Spain and the Percheron of France.

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Thymerais

Thymerais (or Thimerais) is a natural region of Eure-et-Loir, in France, where history and geography meet.

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Tironensian Order

The Tironensian Order or the Order of Tiron was a medieval monastic order named after the location of the mother abbey (Tiron Abbey, Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron, established in 1109) in the woods of Tiron (sometimes Thiron) in Perche, some 35 miles west of Chartres in France). They were popularly called "Grey Monks" because of their grey robes, which their spiritual cousins, the monks of Savigny, also wore.

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Touques (river)

The Touques is a small long coastal river in Pays d'Auge in Normandy, France.

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Tourouvre

Tourouvre is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

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Verneuil-sur-Avre

Verneuil-sur-Avre is a former commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.

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References

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

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