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Born August 29, 1619 • Reims • France
Died September 6, 1683 (aged 64) • Paris • France

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Léon Gambetta
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Maximilien de Béthune, duke de Sully
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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Louis-Adolphe Bonard
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French admiral
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Joseph Caillaux
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Joseph Cambon, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Verite
Joseph Cambon
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Le Tellier, detail from a marble portrait bust by A. Coysevox; in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris
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