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de Gaulle, Charles
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...Charles de Gaulle (shärl də gōl), 1890–1970...statesman, first president (1959–69) of the Fifth Republic. The World WarsDuring World...was inaugurated as president of the new Fifth Republic in Jan., 1959. He decided to......
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Rulers of France since 987 ( (table))
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......son of Philip IV, 1317–22 Charles IV (the Fair), son of Philip IV...44 The Provisional Government Charles de Gaulle, president, 1944...René Coty, 1954–58 The Fifth Republic(presidents) Charles de Gaulle, 1958–69 Georges......
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Hermite, Charles
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...Charles Hermite (shärl ĕrmēt´), 1822–1901, French mathematician. A professor at...theory of elliptic functions, and the theory of equations (especially of the fifth degree). In 1873, Hermite proved the transcendence of the irrational number......
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Francis (French prince, duke of Alençon and Anjou)
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......and conspired with Huguenots and moderate Catholics against his mother and his brother, King Charles IX. By the peace of 1576, which ended the fifth war of religion, he obtained the appanages of Anjou, Touraine, and Berry. He led (1578......
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Coty, René
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......was elected president as a compromise candidate. In the crisis over Algeria in May, 1958, he threatened resignation if Charles de Gaulle were not made premier; he left office with the creation (1959) of the Fifth Republic....
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Restoration (in English history)
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......days later. Politics under Charles II and James IIControl of policy fell to Charles's inner circle of old Cavalier...republicanism, as exemplified in the Fifth Monarchy Men, were violently...see Clarendon Code), and Charles attempted, although cautiously......
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Bourbon
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......Ferdinand VI, Charles III, Charles IV, and Ferdinand VII. Ferdinand...Don Carlos, second son of Charles IV.Relative order was reestablished...latter became king of Spain as Charles III. His great-grandson...Farnese of Parma. Robert, fifth duke of the line, was deposed......
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Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st earl of
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......Although his family leaned toward Charles I, he served in the parliamentary...involved in a plot to restore Charles II, but Oliver Cromwell personally...Scotland. When the restoration of Charles II seemed inevitable, he crossed...tragedies, among them Henry the Fifth (1668), Mustapha (1668......
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Counter Reformation
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......efforts failed; these were the Fifth Lateran Council (see Lateran Council, Fifth) and the election of Adrian...influence of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V weighed on the side of reform...as seen in the work of St. Charles Borromeo. In the Papal States......
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Trent, Council of
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......reforming the church had already produced the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17), but...papal party and that of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. There was an abortive start in 1542...The third period was dominated by St. Charles Borromeo; its definitions and regulations......