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Nature forging a baby, c.1490-c.1500.
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Registre des baptêmes de la paroisse de Roz-Landrieux près de Dol-de-Bretagne. Il débute le 27 novembre 1451 / Parisher register from the parish of Roz Landrieux (beginning on the 27th of November 1451)

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Even though the redaction of the Parisher register was made compulsory with the ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts, some provinces were already used to use them. In Britanny, bishop of Quimper published an ordonnance in 1364 to promote such registers.

Célébration au Panthéon du centenaire de la naissance de Victor Hugo, figure tutélaire de la République en présence du président Émile Loubet le 26 février 1902, peinture par Théobald Chartran, 1904

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Celebration in the Panthéon of the century of Victor Hugo’s birth on the 26th of February 1902.

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The Parliament even created a page about the celebrations dedicated to Victor Hugo…