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  2. The Most Secret Memory of Men - Wikipedia

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    The Most Secret Memory of Men (French: La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, lit. 'The Most Secret Memory of Men') is a 2021 novel by Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr . It was co-published on 19 August 2021 by the French independent publisher Éditions Philippe Rey (Paris) with the Senegalese publishing house Éditions Jimsaan ( Dakar ).

  3. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr - Wikipedia

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    In November 2021, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (lit. 'The Most Secret Memory of Men'). [14] Sarr won in the first round of voting, by six votes against three votes for Sorj Chalandon and one vote for Louis-Philippe Dalembert. [15]

  4. Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau - Wikipedia

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    Thérence Carvalho: « "L’ami des hommes et le prince pasteur". Le rôle du marquis de Mirabeau dans la diffusion et l’application des théories physiocratiques en Toscane », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, nº 394, 4/2018, p. 3-24. René de La Croix de Castries: Mirabeau ou l’échec d’un destin, Paris, Fayard, 1960.

  5. List of French generals who died during the First World War

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    The Le Souvenir français is responsible for maintaining French war memorials and cemeteries and providing information about war dead. [8] It maintains a list of military personnel determined to have mort pour la France ("died for France"), a designation granted under the French Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre [] ("code for military disability pensions and ...

  6. Far from Men - Wikipedia

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    Far from Men (French: Loin des hommes) is a 2014 French drama film directed by David Oelhoffen.Set in French Colonial Algeria, the narrative follows Daru, a reclusive, pacifist, Algerian-born French teacher of Spanish descent (Viggo Mortensen) who is also a war veteran, tasked with delivering Mohammad, a docile Algerian murder suspect (), into the hands of French authorities as the Algerian ...

  7. Senegalese Tirailleurs - Wikipedia

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    Losses were particularly heavy in Flanders (estimated from 3,200 to 4,800) [13] and Chemin des Mains (7,000 out of 15,500 tirailleurs engaged). [13] In 1915 seven battalions of Tirailleurs Sénégalais were amongst the 24 infantry battalions the French sent to the Dardanelles as the Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient. [14]

  8. Marie-Louise Coidavid - Wikipedia

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    Marie-Louise was born into a free black family; her father was the owner of Hotel de la Couronne in Cap-Haïtien. [3] Henri Christophe was a slave purchased by her father. Supposedly, he earned enough money in tips from his duties at the hotel that he was able to purchase his freedom before the Haitian Revolution . [ 4 ]

  9. Affair of the Placards - Wikipedia

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    An example of the placards in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The Affair of the Placards (French: Affaire des Placards) was an incident in which anti-Catholic posters appeared in public places in Paris and in four major provincial cities, Blois, Rouen, Tours and Orléans, in the night of the 17 to 18 October 1534.