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| | Duroc, Geraud-Christophe-Michel, duc de Frioul -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr. |
 | | The son of Claude de Michel, chevalier du Roc, who was a cavalry officer, Duroc went to the Châlons artillery school, emigrated in 1792, but changed his mind, returned to France, entered the Metz school (1793), and was drafted to the artillery of the army of Italy. |
 | | The Duroc proved particularly suitable for feeding in the United States Corn Belt; by the 1930s it was the predominant breed in the United States, a distinction it held intermittently throughout the century. |
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