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Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a French navigator.
An inlet on the coast of Western Australia, in 26 S., is called Freycinet Estuary, a cape near the extreme south-west of the same coast and the Freycinet Peninsula with Freycinet National Park in Tasmania also bear the explorer's name.
Freycinet was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (November 14, 1828 - May 14, 1923), French statesman, was born at Foix[?].
In 1858 he was appointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de fer du Midi, a post in which he gave proof of his remarkable talent for organization, and in 1862 returned to the engineering service(in which he attained in 1886 the rank of inspector-general).
The friction between him and General d'Aurelle de Paladines[?] resulted in the loss of the advantage temporarily gained at Orleans, and he was responsible for the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction of Bourbaki's army.
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Louis Claude de Saulses de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a French navigator.
After taking part in several engagements against the British, he joined in 1800, along with his brother (Louis Henri de Freycinet (?-1840), who afterwards rose to the rank of admiral), an expedition to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia.
In 1817 he commanded the Uranie, in which Arago and others went to Rio de Janeiro, to take a series of pendulum measurements as well as a larger scheme for obtaining observations, not only in geography and ethnology, but in astronomy, terrestrial magnetism, and meteorology, and for the collection of specimens in natural history.
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (November 14, 1828 - May 14, 1923) was a French statesman and prime minister.
In 1858 he was appointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de fer du Midi, a post in which he showed a remarkable talent for organization, and in 1862 returned to the engineering service, attaining in 1886 the rank of inspector-general.
On the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he offered his services to Léon Gambetta, was appointed prefect of the department of Tarn-et-Garronne, and in October became chief of the military cabinet.
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Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French navigator.
In 1805 he returned to (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, and was entrusted by the government with the work of preparing the maps and plans of the expedition.
Freycinet was admitted into the (Click link for more info and facts about French Academy of Sciences) French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
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Charles de Freycinet - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
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DE (1828-), French statesman, was born at Foix on the I4th of November 1828.
FREYCINET, LOUIS CLAUDE DESAULSES DE (17791842), French navigator, was born at Montlimart, Drme, on the 7th of August 1779.
Theresults of this voyage were published under Freycinets super-vision, with the title of Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes lUranie et la Physicienne in 18241844, in 13 quarto volumes and 4 folio volumes of fine plates and maps.
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Bief de Partage - French for summit pound, the body of water at the watershed of a canal marking the transition from ascending to descending locks.
Named after Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, the Minister of Public Works who was responsible for inland navigation, a Freycinet lock measures 39 metres by 5.20 metres and allows barges with a length of up to 38.5 metres, a beam of 5.05 metres and a draft of 1.80 metres to navigate.
Mur de Chute - French for the height of the upstream sill, the masonry shelf on which the upstream lock gates are mounted.
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Freycinet was born at Foix (Ariège) in south-west France.
Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de (1779-1842), French naval officer, scientist, and cartographer, who explored parts of Australia and the...
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de (1689-1755), French writer and jurist, born in the Château of La Brède, and educated...
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (14 novembre 1828, Foix–14 mai 1923, Paris), politicien et ingénieur français.
Il devient sénateur de la Seine en 1876, mandat qu'il devait conserver jusqu’en 1920.
Il est ministre des Travaux publics (1877–1879), où son nom est attaché à la multiplication de lignes de chemin de fer souvent de qualité médiocre (plan Freycinet), dans le but de désenclaver les régions mal desservies.
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Louis Jean-Baptiste dAurelle de Paladines (9 January 1804 - 17 December 1877) was a French general.
Charles Floquet, French politician Charles Thomas Floquet (October 2, 1828 - January 18, 1896) was a French statesman.
Charles Duclerc, French politician Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (1813-1888) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883.
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Louis X, called The Headstrong (1289-1316), king of France (1314-1316), the son of Philip IV.
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (1828-1923), a former French prime minister.
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842), a French navigator.
Freycinet Estuary, an inlet on the coast of Western Australia,
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An inlet on the coast of Western Australia, in 26 S., is called Freycinet Estuary, a cape near the extreme south-west of the same coast and the
South America, and other places, and, not withstanding the loss of the Uranie on the Falkland Islands during the return voyage, returned to France with fine collections in all departments of natural history, and with voluminous notes and drawings which form an important contribution to a knowledge of the countries visited.
Freycinet was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the
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 Freycinet, Charles-Louis de Saulces de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 13, 1899, motion picture producer and director Louis de Rochemont is best known for The March of Time, a highly popular newsreel series on current events that he produced from 1935 to 1951.
As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Biography of Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, the French nationalist and statesman who led his country during World War II and became the president of fifth republic of France.
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Leopold could not be reached, but his father, Prince Charles Anthony, wired a retraction of the candidacy in the name of his son.
Antoine Agénor Alfred, duc de Gramont, the French foreign minister, demanded that William submit a personal letter of apology to Napoleon III and a guarantee that the Hohenzollern candidacy would never be renewed.
On October 7 the minister of the new French government, Léon Gambetta, made a dramatic escape from Paris by balloon, and with his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, established a provisional capital in the city of Tours.
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Leopold could not be reached, but his father, Prince Charles Anthony (1811–85), wired a retraction of the candidacy in the name of his son.
Antoine Agénor Alfred, duc de Gramont (1819–80), the French foreign minister, demanded that William submit a personal letter of apology to Napoleon III and a guarantee that the Hohenzollern candidacy would never be renewed.
On October 7 the minister of the new French government, Léon Gambetta, made a dramatic escape from Paris by balloon, and with his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (1828–1923), carried on from Tours the organization and equipment of 36 military divisions.
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Measuring about 14 miles (23 km) by 4 miles (6.5 km), with an area of 25 square miles (65 square km), it rises to a high point at Mount Freycinet (2,011 feet [613 m]), one of the peaks along a high central granite ridge known as the Hazards.
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Durant cette période, il mit en vigueur le plan Freycinet, vaste projet d’équipement visant à moderniser le pays et à désenclaver les régions mal desservies, par le développement du chemin de fer et des canaux.
De nouveau président du Conseil après la chute de Gambetta, de janvier à juillet 1882, il obtint avec Ferry que soit consacré le principe de l’obligation scolaire.
De nouveau président du Conseil tout en gardant le portefeuille de la Guerre (mars 1890-février 1892), il solda les séquelles de la crise boulangiste.
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Louis Claude de Saulses de Freycinet, (born August 7 1779, died 1842) was a French navigator.
Freycinet was admitted into the "Academy of Sciences" in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
He died at Freycinet, Drme, on August 18 1842.
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One of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance was Pierre de Ronsard.
It was built because of the consuming envy of King Louis XIV, and once completed it became the object of envy of every other monarch in Europe.
Usually known as the prince of Wales, Charles is also earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick, and baron of Renfrew, among other titles.
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Due to the direction of the winds and the fact that balloons could not really be steered, the stream of balloons went in only one direction—out of Paris.
On October 7, 1870, the minister of the new French government, Léon Gambetta, made a dramatic escape from Paris by balloon, and with his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, established a provisional capital in the city of Tours.
The war contributions of the aeronauts led to the formation, in 1874, of a "Commission des Communications Aeriennnes." On its recommendation, a military aeronautical establishment was set up in 1877 under the direction of Charles and Paul Renard.
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Freycinet, Charles Louis de Saulces de (1828-1923), French statesman and author.
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Bréguet, Louis Charles (1880-1955), French airplane designer, born in Paris, France.
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