Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult (8747 bytes)
1: ...:Soult.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, marshal of France]]
3: ...]], was born at Saint-Arnans-la-Bastide (now in [[department]] of the [[Tarn]]), and was the son of a ...
7: ...elf for coolness, he was promoted general of brigade by the representatives on mission.
9: ...lls, and after many successful actions he was wounded and taken prisoner at Monte Cretto on [[April 13...
13: ...at [[battle of Austerlitz|Austerlitz]] he led the decisive attack on the allied centre.

Jean-Nicolas Pache (1765 bytes)
1: ... the son of the concièrge of the hotel of Marshal de Castries.
3: ...marine, head of supplies (''munitionnaire general des vivres''), and comptroller of the king's househo...
5: ...urg]] section. Thus brought into notice, he was made minister of war in the following October.
7: ... the ministry of war by [[Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville|Beurnonville]] ([[February 4]], [[17...
13: [[Category:1746 births|Pache, Jean-Nicolas]]

Jean-Nicolas Stofflet (1845 bytes)
1: '''Jean-Nicolas Stofflet''' ([[1751]] - [[February 23]], [[1796]]...
3: ...During the war in [[La Vendée]] he served first under Gigot d'Elbe, fought at [[Fontenay]]. [[battle o...
5: ...n-chief. But his quarrels with another Vendéan leader, FA Charette, and the reverses sustained by the ...
7: ...s taken prisoner by the republicans, condemned to death by a military commission, and shot at [[Angers...
9: ...(1900-1901); C Loyer, ''Cholet sous la domination de Stofflet'', in ''L'Anjoa historique'', vol. iii. ...

Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras (5034 bytes)
1: ... a French revolutionary and the main executive leader of the [[French Directory|Directory]] regime of ...
3: ...] and shared in the defence of that city, which ended in its capitulation to the British on [[18 Octob...
5: ...at the writer assigned 30,000 men to the royalist defending force, whereas it had fewer than 12,000; h...
7: ...inted Barras to command the troops engaged in its defence. His nomination of Bonaparte led to the adop...
9: ...te life was notorious and contributed in no small degree to the downfall of the Directory, and with it...

Prie-dieu (580 bytes)
1: ... [[chair]], in domestic furniture is called "prie-dieu" by analogy.

Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (2518 bytes)
1: The '''Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal''' is the oldest [[hospital]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], and w...
3: ...es immediately, but the hospital was formally founded on [[October 8]], [[1645]], and was confirmed by...
5: ... Saint-Joseph]] order of [[nuns]], which were founded in 1659. They would later establish other hospit...
9: ...the first femur transplant ([[1959]]), the first identification of an [[AIDS]] patient in Canada ([[19...
11: ... make up the [[Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal]] (CHUM), along with the Hôpital Notre-D...

Dieu est né en exil (1600 bytes)
1: '''Dieu est né en exil''' (''God was born in exile'')
2: ...itten by [[Vintila Horia]], for which she was awarded the prestigious [[Prix Goncourt]], though she ne...
6: ...cia]]. This novel adopts the form of a diary, divided into eight chapters (each of which corresponds t...
8: ...cters become interwoven during a [[chaism]], in order to rise up again at the end of the radically met...
20: [[fr:Dieu est né en exil]]

Dieu et mon droit (1381 bytes)
1: '''Dieu et mon droit''' ([[French language|French]] for '...
3: ...] as well as of [[England]]. The motto of the [[Order of the Garter]] ''[[Honi soit qui mal y pense]]'...
5: ... in [[1198]] at the [[Battle of Gisors]], when he defeated the [[France|French]]. Its meaning was that...
7: ...tion for [[The Beatles]] joke motto ''Duit On Mon Dei'', later adopted as an album title by [[Harry Ni...

Nicolas Slonimsky (1316 bytes)
1: ...'Nicolas Slonimsky''' ([[April 27]], [[1894]] - [[December 25]], [[1995]]) was a [[Russia]]n-[[United ...
7: ...brandonu.ca/~students/fall-02/kristka77/jazz.html Nicolas Slonimsky and John Coltrane : Countdown, Giant St...
9: [[Category:1894 births|Slonimsky, Nicolas]]
10: [[Category:1995 deaths|Slonimsky, Nicolas]]
11: [[Category:Centenarians|Slonimsky, Nicolas]]

Nicolas de Grigny (1580 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas de Grigny''' (baptised [[September 8]], [[1672]] - [...
3: ...ame de Reims|the cathedral]]'s organist until his death, 31 years old. He was married in 1695 and had ...
5: ..., was admired by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], who made a copy of it. It contains a suite of pieces for a...
16: [[Category:1672 births|Grigny, Nicolas de]]
17: [[Category:1703 deaths|Grigny, Nicolas de]]

Nicolas Fouquet (5873 bytes)
1: ...e-Isle, superintendent of finance in [[France]] under [[Louis XIV]].
3: ...t twenty, he was able to buy the post of ''maître des requêtes''. From 1642 to 1650 he held various in...
5: ...gely augmented by his marriage in 1651 with Marie de Castille, who also belonged to a wealthy family o...
7: ...ade it necessary at times for Fouquet to meet the demands upon him by borrowing upon his own credit, b...
9: ...the day of reckoning to his agent and successor [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]].

St Nicolas du Chardonnet (800 bytes)
1: '''St. Nicolas du Chardonnet''' is a [[church]] in [[Paris]].
4: ...large group of followers nearby one day and proceeded to occupy the church, kicking out the people who...
8: ...y be good for the church building however, as St. Nicolas is the best maintained church in Paris.
12: ....php?placeid=69 St Nicolas du Chardonnet, contact details, maps and photograph]

Nicolas Saunderson (1768 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas Saunderson''' ([[1682]] - [[April 9]], [[1739]]) was an ...
3: Saunderson was born at Thurlstone, [[Yorkshire]], in Jan...
5: ...ian philosophy, and in November [[1711]] he succeeded [[William Whiston]], the [[Lucasian professor]] ...
8: ...ir [[Isaac Newton]], [[Edmund Halley]], [[Abraham De Moivre]] and [[Roger Cotes]].
10: He devised a calculating machine or abacus, by which he...

Nicolas Siret (987 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas Siret''' ([[1663]] – [[1754]]) was a French...
7: ...rote some "pièces de caractère" (pieces more in a descriptive than dancelike) whose style is near that...
9: [[fr:Nicolas Siret]]
11: [[Category:French composers|Siret, Nicolas]]
12: [[Category:Baroque composers|Siret, Nicolas]]

Barry Nicolas (518 bytes)
5: [[Category:1919 births|Nicolas, Barry]]
6: [[Category:2002 deaths|Nicolas, Barry]]

Nicolas Ruwet (1200 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas Ruwet''' ([[December 31]], [[1932]] - [[November 15]], [[2001]])...
3: ...ology]] in [[Liège]]. Later he studied with [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] and later still with [[Noam Chomsk...
9: [[Category:1932 births|Ruwet, Nicolas]]
10: [[Category:2001 deaths|Ruwet, Nicolas]]

Nicolas Coustou (1240 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas Coustou''' ([[1658]]-[[1733]]) was the son of a w...
3: ...afterwards became rector and chancellor of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
5: ...lief "Le Passage du Rhin" in the Louvre, and the "Descent from the Cross" placed behind the choir alta...
9: [[Category:1658 births|Coustou, Nicolas]]
10: [[Category:1733 deaths|Coustou, Nicolas]]

Nicolas Lancret (2022 bytes)
1: ...lected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
3: ...u|Watteau]] induced him to leave d'Ulin for [[Claude Gillot|Gillot]], whose pupil Watteau had been. Tw...
5: ...fact that he had been for some time in training under an engraver.
7: ...l works of Lancret. In 1719 he was received as Academician, and became councillor in 1735; in 1741 he ...
9: ...Vies des peintres''; and Ballot de Sovot, ''Éloge de M. Lancret'' (1743, new ed. 1874).

Nicolas Gombert (6597 bytes)
1: ...trina|Palestrina]], and best represents the fully-developed, complex [[polyphony|polyphonic]] style of...
5: ...mer]]. He is said to have studied with [[Josquin des Prez|Josquin]] during the renowned composer's re...
7: ...as taken on while Charles was passing through Flanders, for the emperor traveled often, bringing his r...
9: ... any, he held. In 1561 Cardano wrote that he was dead.
13: ...expression of grief in his six-voice motet on the death of Josquin, ''Musae Jovis'', with its clashing...

Nicolas le Pelley (467 bytes)
1: '''Nicolas le Pelley'''([[1692]] - [[1742]]) was Seigneur of...
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5: | width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by:<br>'''[[Susanne le Pelley]]'''
7: | width="30%" align="center" | Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Daniel le Pelley]]'''
10: [[Category:1692 births|Pelley, Nicolas le]]

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