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Du Calvet thus embarked for Quebec City onboard the merchant ship Le Lion, which left Bordeaux in April 1758.
Du Calvet thereafter left for Montreal after having learned, while passing through Quebec City, that the Vaudreuil government had removed there following the city's capitulation.
Du Calvet seemed to have put a great zeal in the exercise of his public duties and was soon praised by the Chief Justice the province, William Hey.
Du Calvet found a nurse, dame La Prise, to take care of Jean Dumas, his second son.
Du Calvet was part of a committee of citizens who greeted the representatives of the Continental Congress with an address, written by Valentin Jautard on November 14.
In 1877, Louis Fréchette dedicated a poem entitled Du Calvet in his collection of poems La Légende d ' un peuple.
* The Case of Peter Du Calvet, Esq., of Montreal in the Province of Quebeck, containing, amongst other things worth notice, an account of the long and severe imprisonment he suffered in the said province [...], London, March 1784 ( in collaboration with Francis Maseres and Peter Livius )
" Pierre Du Calvet en 1785 ", in the official Web site of the Vieux-Montréal, February 3, 2002
* Du Calvet, Pierre.
* Du Calvet proposes Canadian representation in the British Parliament, three members, each, for the Districts of Quebec and Montreal.
Du Calvet, imprisoned at the same time and for the same reasons as Fleury Mesplet and Valentine Jautard, both suspected of symphatizing and collaborating with the American revolutionaries during the war, undertook to have the injustice committed towards him be publicly known by publishing The Case of Peter du Calvet and, a few months later, his Appel à la justice de l ' État.

Du and was
The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.
Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.
In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;
Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.
Du Pont would be enjoined from having as a director, officer, or employee anyone who was simultaneously an officer or employee of General Motors, and no director, officer, or employee of Du Pont could serve as a director of General Motors without court approval.
Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.
Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.
As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.
The program came out of the NBC Special Projects department, and was slotted in the Du Pont Show Of The Week series.
Longwood Gardens, near Kennett Square, Pa. ( about 12 miles from Wilmington, Del. ), was developed and heavily endowed by the late Pierre S. Du Pont.
However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.
Du Boulay retired in 1924 and was replaced by M. B. Williamson who served until his death in 1939.
The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.
The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.
The son of the gangster Du Yuesheng was arrested by him.
Du Pont was living in the United States at the time and had close ties to Jefferson as well as the prominent politicians in France.

Du and determined
However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.
Ronsard's own work came a little later, and a rather idle story is told of a trick of Du Bellay's which at last determined him to publish.
This determined the work of Du Bois-Reymond's life.

Du and return
Du was captured during the Huaihai Campaign and held in communist prisons until his pardon in 1959, after which he was rewarded a high-ranking position in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, reportedly because the Chinese government wanted to convince his son-in-law Yang Zhenning, a Nobel laureate in physics, to return to China.
Dunlop assigned his patent to William Harvey Du Cros, in return for 1, 500 shares in the resultant company and in the end did not make any great fortune by his invention.
In return, Du Gua promised to bring 60 new colonists each year to what would be called l ' Acadie.
As a consequence, Du Gua and the settlers had to abandon the colony and return to France.
Nguyễn Du was loyal to the Lê Dynasty and hoped for the return of the Lê king.
After his return, Du Camp wrote about his traveling experiences.
Du Yu would return to the north and write a well-known commentary to the Zuo zhuan ( Zuo Commentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals ) after the conquest of Wu in 280.
The president of the underworld adjudicates that a marriage between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei is predestined and Du Liniang ought to return to the earthly world.

Du and Europe
Du Cane Court is the largest block of flats in Europe built for private occupation rather than as social housing.
Lyric poetry advanced far more in China than in Europe prior to 1000, as multiple new forms developed in the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties: perhaps the greatest poets of this era in Chinese literature were Li Bai and Du Fu.
According to Du Chaillu, "... during the great famine of 1867 ; a year memorable in the annals of Northern Europe, when, in consequence of an early and heavy frost in summer, the crops were destroyed, and desolation and death spread over vast districts.
The early 1990s saw her scoring successful albums in Greece with " Prosexe " in 1991 ( Nur Einen Augenblick in Germany ) and " Andres " ( unique album for Greece ) in 1993 and in Europe in 1994 / 5 with singles " Du Bist Mein Schoenster Gedanke " and a duet with Tony Christie, " We're Gonna Stay Together ".
One of the main differences of electro-biologists from their European predecessors was that they held these phenomena to be mainly a result of the state in which their subjects fell, whereas in Europe some of them, at any rate, were held to be mainly the product or of the action of the mesmerist's will on his subject ( Du Potet ), or of an universal fluid or energy present also in man ( Mesmer theory ).
The Pop Group played live in Paris ( for the first time ) on 6 September 2010, at La Machine Du Moulin Rouge venue as part of " L ' Etrange Festival " Film Festival which served as a kick off to their five date tour through Europe which included a London gig on New Year's Eve with Sonic Youth and Shellac.
* In Europe: University of Bergen ( Norway ), Roskilde ( Denmark ), Göteborg, Linköping and Växjö ( Sweden ), Greifswald, Hohenheim, Zittau / Görlitz ( Germany ), Poitiers, Du Maine, Pierre et Marie Curie University ( France ), UBS Vannes ( France ), Bologna, Parma, SDA Bocconi, Università di Cagliari ( Italy ), and University of Torun ( Poland );
Du Camp traveled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert.
Du Chaillu had previously, through journeys in the Gabon region between 1855 and 1859, made popular in Europe the knowledge of the existence of the gorilla, whose existence was thought to be as legendary as that of the Pygmies of Aristotle.
He lived in an Art Deco-style apartment block – Du Cane Court, in Balham, south-west London – the largest such under one roof in Europe in the 1930s.
Baker lives in Los Angeles, Europe and at The RTB Studio Du Lac, his Recording Retreat, in Arizona.
In July 1900 he attended the Pan-African Conference held at Westminster Town Hall at which there were 37 delegates from Europe, Africa and the United States, including Samuel Coleridge Taylor, John Archer, Dadabhai Naoroji, Sylvester Williams and William Du Bois.

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