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| | MERCURY (PLANET) - LoveToKnow Article on MERCURY (PLANET) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) |
 | | The estate of Mercceur in Auvergne, France, gave its name to a line of powerful lords, which became extinct in the i4th century, and passed by inheritance to the dauphins of Auvergne, counts of Clermont. |
 | | In 1426 it passed to the Bourbons by the marriage, of Jeanne de Clermont, dauphine of Auvergne, with Louis de Bourbon, count of Montpensier. |
 | | It formed part of the,confiscated estates of the Constable de Bourbon, and was given by Francis I. and Louise of Savoy to Antoine, duke of Lorraine, and his wife, Renee de Bourbon. |
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