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Facts

Also Known As Lothringen

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Metz: Porte des Allemands
Lorraine
Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
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Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg

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Ill River, Strasbourg, France
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Key People

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Humbert of Silva Candida
French cardinal
Choiseul, Étienne-François de Choiseul, duc de
Étienne-François de Choiseul, duke de Choiseul
French foreign minister
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Jean Mone
French sculptor
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Stephen IX
pope
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Charles III
duke of Lorraine [1604–1675]
Charles II the Great, drawing by an unknown French artist, 16th century; in the Louvre, Paris
Charles II
duke of Lorraine [1543–1608]
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Claudius Florimund, count von Mercy
Austrian field marshal
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Charles I
duke of Lorraine [1365–1431]