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(Encyclopedia) Coster, Charles de: see De Coster, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Viana, Charles of: see Charles of Viana. ...

(Encyclopedia) Buhl, André Charles: see Boulle, André Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gaulle, Charles de: see de Gaulle, Charles. ...

(Encyclopedia) White, Charles (Charles Wilbert White, Jr.), 1918–79, American figurative painter, printmaker, and teacher, b. Chicago, studied School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A left-leaning activist whose ...

(Encyclopedia) Charles d'Orléans: see Orléans, Charles, duc d'. ...

(Encyclopedia) Charles of Blois (Charles of Châtillon) blwä, shätēyôNˈ [key], c.1319–1364, duke of Brittany; nephew of Philip VI of France. He was one of the chief participants in the War of the Breton Succe...

(Encyclopedia) Laughton, Charles, 1899–1962, Anglo-American actor, b. Scarborough, England. A large, versatile character actor, Laughton was successful both in films and on the stage. In The Private Life of Henry ...

(Encyclopedia) Inglis, Charles ĭngˈglĭs, ĭngˈgəlz [key], 1734–1816, Anglican clergyman in America, b. Ireland. He emigrated to America in 1755. While assistant rector (1765–77) of Trinity Church, New York ...

(Encyclopedia) Cressent, Charles shärl krĕsäNˈ [key], 1685–1768, French cabinetmaker, one of the chief creators of the régence style. Although at first a sculptor and bronze craftsman, he studied under the fu...