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Born 1884 • Bordeaux • France
Died October 21, 1963 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Title / Office governor-general (1940-1945), Indochina
Role In Vichy France
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
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French colonial official
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Jules Ferry
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king of Belgium
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British colonial administrator
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
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James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
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Manuel I
king of Portugal
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
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Charles III
king of Spain
John I and John of Gaunt
John I
king of Portugal
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Stamford Raffles
British colonial agent
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Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
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Sir Hercules Robinson
Sir Hercules Robinson
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