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•  Francesco Andreini

  Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 - 1624) was an Italian actor. Andreini was born at Pistoia. He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell'arte style to France. Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.

  

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•  Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

  Charles VII Albert (Brussels 6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745 in Munich), a member of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only person not of the House of Habsburg to become emperor-elect since the fifteenth century.

  

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•  Johann Joachim Quantz

  Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer.

  

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•  William Hogarth

  William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Much of his work poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

  

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•  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. She was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais, a village near Charolles of a noble family. Educated at a convent in Paris, she showed great intelligence and a sceptical, cynical turn of mind. The abbess, alarmed at the freedom of her views, arranged for Jean Baptiste Massillon to visit and reason with her, but he accomplished nothing.

  

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•  Joseph François Dupleix

  Joseph François Dupleix (1 January 1697 – 10 November 1763) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the rival of Robert Clive.

  

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•  George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

  Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC RN (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. During his time in office Anson instituted a series of reforms to the Royal Navy.

  

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•  Bernard Accama

  Bernardus Accama (1697 - 1756) was an eighteenth century Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland, possibly in Burum, the son of Aeltje Boetes Nievelt and Simon Accama the local church minister. He was christened 12 July 1696 at Burum. He worked and died in Leeuwarden.

  

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•  Jacob Emden

  Jacob Emden (the Yabets) was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbateans. He was born at Altona June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776. He was the son of the Chacham Tzvi, and a great-great grandson of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. Emden was the father of Meshullam Solomon, one of two rival Chief Rabbis of England from 1765 to 1780.

  

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•  John Peter Zenger

  John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German-born American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. He was defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence that determined that truth was a defense against charges of libel.

  

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• 1697 births by likeorhate
• 1768 deaths by likeorhate
• Italian etchers by likeorhate
• Italian painters by likeorhate
• Landscape artists by likeorhate
• People from Venice (city) by likeorhate
• Venetian painters by likeorhate
• 18th-century Italian people by likeorhate

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•  Letter opener

  

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•  DRG Class 42

  The Class 42 was a type of steam locomotive produced for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. It is one of the three main classes of the so-called war locomotives, the other two being class 50 and 52.

  

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•  FAI Cup 1924–25

  

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•  Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo

  

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•  Worcester, Pennsylvania

  

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