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Rochefort

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname from French.

A commune of Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, region of New Aquitaine, France.

A municipality of the district of Boudry, canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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It was the first and last film he ever produced, as he did not enjoy the process. citation Lee appeared as the Comte de Rochefort in Richard Lester 's The Three Musketeers (1973). Source: Internet

Milza, 2009a, p. 250 A republican press also flourished, including such papers as Le Mot d'Ordre of Henri Rochefort, which was both violently anti-Versailles and critical of the faults and excesses of the Commune. Source: Internet

It has long been generally agreed that by several of his most costly expeditions nothing was really won but glory: the policy of diversionary attacks on places like Rochefort was memorably described as 'breaking windows with gold guineas'. Source: Internet

In 1903 Henri Rochefort visited the auction of paintings that had been in Zola's possession and published on 9 March 1903 in L'Intransigeant a highly critical article entitled "Love for the Ugly". Source: Internet

Proposed by Henri Rochefort, editor of the Le Mot d'Ordre, on 6 April, it had not been voted upon by the Commune until 10 May. Source: Internet

Rochefort describes how spectators had supposedly experienced laughing fits, when seeing the paintings of "an ultra-impressionist named Cézanne". Source: Internet

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