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Choiseul
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Choiseul1
Étienne François , Duc de. 1719--85, French statesman; foreign minister (1758--70)
Choiseul2
an island in the SW Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands: hilly and densely forested. Area: 3885 sq. km (1500 sq. miles)
Choiseul 

an island in the Pacific Ocean; one of the Solomon Islands. Population, more than 8,000 (1970). Choiseul Island covers an area of 2,600 sq km and rises to a maximum elevation of 1,067 m. The island has evergreen forests. Coconut palms are raised, and copra is exported.
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The Duc de Choiseul was equally dramatic: he said he would rather be stoned in the streets of Paris than surrender French rights to the North American fisheries.
Atlantic cod: the cod-forsaken island by Canada and the World Backgrounder
Proof of extreme over-indulgence comes from two painted miniatures that adorned snuff boxes that belonged to the Duc de Choiseul, one time Chief Minister to Louis XV.
The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century by Julius, Muriel / Contemporary Review
When Duc de Choiseul, the French foreign minister, offered to surrender Canada to the British in 1761, he refused to cede French rights to the Newfoundland fishery.
The bounty of the deep by Canada and the World Backgrounder
 
 
 
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