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Jean (zhäN), 1921-, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000); son of Charlotte, grand duchess of Luxembourg, and Felix, prince of Bourbon-Parma. He fought with Great Britain's Irish Guards in World War II. In 1953, Jean married Princess Josephine Charlotte, daughter of Leopold III, former king of Belgium. Jean was made deputy to his mother in 1961, virtually assuming the powers of head of state. In 1964 he became grand duke. He abdicated in favor of his son Henri in 2000.
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According to Lewis Spence (in the Encyclopedia of Occultism, 1920), Jean was a French magician, votary of Apollonius of Tyana. He traveled from town to town, wearing an iron collar and making his living by performing deeds of charlatanry. At Lyons he attained some measure of fame by his miraculous cures and met with the sovereign, to whom he presented a magnificent enchanted sword. In battle this weapon became surrounded by ninescore drawn knives. Jean also gave this prince a shield containing a magic mirror that divulged the greatest secrets. The arms vanished or were stolen.

(Unfortunately, Spence did not state the period or the ruler involved, but this is probably a medieval legend.)

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Clothing and textiles

  • Jeans, pants or trousers made from denim

Music and stage

  • Jean Valjean, a fictional character in the 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misèrables, numerous film adaptations of the novel, and the 1980 stage musical based on the novel
  • Jean, a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch
  • Jean, a 1969 song by Rod McKuen

People

Places

  • Jean, Nevada, a town in Clark County, Nevada, in the United States
  • "Jean," the fictional planet providing the setting for the majority of the Freefall webcomic

Ships

Information technology

  • JEAN (programming language), a dialect of JOSS that ran on ICL's 1900 series mainframe computers and provided an interactive command language for the MINIMOP timesharing system

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