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Valois

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Valois may refer to:

People

  • House of Valois, French royal house descended from the counts of Valois
  • Agnès-Marie Valois (1914–2018), French religious sister and nurse who cared for the wounded in the World War II raid on Dieppe
  • Charles-Omer Valois (born 1924), Canadian Roman Catholic bishop
  • Georges Valois (1878–1945), French journalist and politician
  • Henri Valois (1607–1692), French classical historian
  • Jean-Louis Valois (born 1973), French footballer
  • Johanne Valois (born 1953), Canadian handball player
  • Jonathan Valois (born 1971), Canadian politician
  • Joseph Valois (1767–1835), businessman, farmer and political figure in Lower Canada
  • Léonise Valois (1868–1936), French-Canadian poet
  • Luislinda Valois (born 1942), Salvadoran-born Brazilian jurist, magistrate and politician
  • Michel-François Valois (1801–1869), physician and political figure in Canada East
  • Noël Valois (1855–1915), French historian
  • Philippe Valois (1907–1986), Canadian politician
  • Victor Valois (1841–1924), German Imperial Navy vice-admiral

Places

  • County, later Duchy, of Valois, France, governed by the counts and dukes of Valois
  • Valois, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, a neighbourhood in the city of Pointe-Claire
    • Valois station, a commuter rail station

Other uses

  • Rue de Valois, a street in Paris
  • Valois sauce, a variation of Béarnaise sauce
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