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Melchior de Polignac

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Melchior de Polignac , 1661–1742, French diplomat, churchman, and author, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As ambassador to Poland he directed (1697) the unsuccessful candidacy of François Louis de Conti for the Polish crown. He was one of the negotiators of the Peace of Utrecht (1713–14). After being in disgrace during the regency of Philippe II d'Orléans, he served as ambassador to the Holy See. His Anti-Lucretius (1745, in Latin; tr. 1757) is a philosophical poem attacking materialism from the Cartesian viewpoint.

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Mey, Johann Melchior van der

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Mey, Johann Melchior van der or Johann Melchior van der Meij, (1878–1949). Dutch architect, he worked with de Klerk and Kramer on the brick- and terracotta-clad Expressionist Scheepvaarthuis (Navigation House), Amsterdam (1912–16), and designed housing in the Titianstraat (1925–30) and Hoofdorpplein (1928–30), Amsterdam.

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Fanelli (1968);
Zuydewijn (1969)

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