Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier) Author of Le Grand Meaulnes, now considered a French classic, he died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix in September 1914, aged 27.

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'My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head

For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,
And lusty life away she leaps
As there had been none such'

by Lord Thomas Vaux

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Les jardins du château de Vaux le Vicomte refuge de Nicolas Fouquet (l'écureuil) par Bourdon

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🎨🗻🕯🕰 Butterfly Violet, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940, 1923, watercolor on paper.

In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, accompanied by brief descriptions, in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers.

https://t.co/8c1sd7QsHA

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Kasukabe et vaux ! Deux perso de Dorohedoro que j'adore :D !

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💚 todays green anime girl of the day is clair vaux bernardus from umineko no naku koro ni/umineko when they cry! 💚

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17 August 1661. Nicolas Foucquet, Louis XIV's surintendant des finances, hosts a magnificent party at his château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Contrary to popular belief, this did not prompt Foucquet's downfall, which had been planned several months earlier. For more, see my Facebook page

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Mary Vaux Walcott nació el 31 de julio de 1860 en Pensilvania. Desde los 8 años pudo experimentar con acuarelas con las que pintaba sus dibujos de flores. De ella nos han llegado numerosos estudios de flores y plantas.

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clair vaux bernardus

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🚨INFO PRO PORTAIL URSSAF : NE VOUS PRÉCIPITEZ PAS POUR FAIRE VOTRE DÉCLARATION SOCIALE ! (Sauf si vous aimez les crash tests)
📌Trop de bugs sur l’interface, vous risquez de perdre du temps et de vous énerver pour rien. Mieux vaux attendre que l’Urssaf ait résolu ses bugs.
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What's in a name? Read about how a undergraduate intern used digitized collections to find more specimens collected by Mary Vaux Walcott that were originally attributed to her husband. https://t.co/Kq7QZkB0sG

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🍃🎋💐🎨Butterfly Violet, Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860-1940. Butterfly Violet, 1923, watercolor on paper. In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, accompanied by brief descriptions, in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers.

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Trailing-Arbutus by Mary Vaux Walcott

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Giant Air Plant (Tillandsia fasciculata). get nourishment from air, rain, and minerals from their host tree. by Mary Vaux Walcott for her North American Wild Flowers, V.2 (1925). Via & : https://t.co/iLd8Ek6Lrk

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Charles Le Brun was born today in 1619. One of the finest artists of his day, Le Brun produced many famous portraits, but he also decorated châteaux, such as the magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.

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For The Lady of the Ravens publication day, author writes about Joan Vaux, the unconventional Tudor woman who inspired her novel
https://t.co/fvd2BzvGsO

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