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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    the Promenade des Berges de la Seine (2013), built on a former highway on the left bank of the Seine between the Pont de l'Alma and the Musée d'Orsay...
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    pronunciation: [otɛl djø]; "God Shelter") is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition...
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  • Histoire de la responsabilité criminelle..., p. 54 (in French) Subdelegates and Subdelegations on the territory of the département, under the ancien régime...
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    sorts of positions, military or otherwise, was rampant in the courts of the Ancien Régime and so the officer corps' mass exodus from France naturally coincided...
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    Canal du Midi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (150 sq mi) of agricultural land. The Rigole de la plaine carries water from the Sor tapped from an offtake at Pont Crouzet for irrigation before emptying into...
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    France (redirect from La France)
    2 million), Château de Versailles (2.8 million), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (2 million), Pont du Gard (1.5 million), Arc de Triomphe (1.2 million)...
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    still using much of the same network of hydraulics as was used during the Ancien Régime, the fountains contribute to making the gardens of Versailles unique...
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    turned it into a prison. The abbey was used regularly as a prison during the Ancien Régime. Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were inscribed on the...
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    towns having their own: Quimper, Lorient, Pont-Aven, Saint-Brieuc, BN and LU in Nantes, La Trinitaine in La Trinité-sur-Mer, and Galettes Saint-Michel...
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    La Caricature, under the name "Henri B...". In it, a young man loses his last Napoleon coin at a Parisian gambling house, then continues to the Pont Royal...
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    servants Planchet – a young man from Picardy, he is seen by Porthos on the Pont de la Tournelle spitting into the river below. Porthos takes this as a sign...
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    Battle of Bouvines (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    that came to define the Ancien Régime. In 1214, Count Ferdinand of Flanders desired the return of the cities of Aire-sur-la-Lys and Saint-Omer, which...
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    the Ancien Régime. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 0-19-510198-7. Quoy-Bodin, J. L. (1984). "L'Orchestre de la Société Olympique en 1786". Revue de Musicologie...
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    de Picpus et ancien couvent des chanoinesses de Picpus". www.pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-01. "Brève histoire des prisons de Paris, de la prise...
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    was dedicated in 1791 as the Pont Louis XVI. It was renamed the pont de la Revolution in 1792; then, in 1795, Pont de la Concorde. An attempt was also...
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  • Blaise Duval (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
    promoted to General de Brigade on 25 August 1792 in the Army of the North by Dumouriez then Maréchal de camp and commander-in-chief of the Pont-sur-Sambre military...
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    of police, whereupon Louis XVIII of France allotted to him the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées. He distanced himself from the Imperial restoration at the...
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    Plagnieux 1998, p. 22. "L'affaire de la tour nord : La querelle des anciens et des modernes". Basilique Cathédrale de Saint-Denis (in French). Seine-Saint-Denis...
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    l'A4, l'A86, la Francilienne pas loin. Et le coût y est moindre que dans une zone aéroportuaire », confie Cédric Pastour, le PDG, ancien directeur général...
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    The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [ ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...
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  • Deaths in March 2024 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Isère : un dernier hommage aux obsèques d'Yves Pillet, ancien maire de Pont-en-Royans pendant près de 40 ans (in French) Charles Kistner Pringle Ruby Lynn...
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    Palais Brion that Louis had his mistress Louise de La Vallière stay while his affair with Madame de Montespan was still an official secret. Henrietta...
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    Pivot, Sylvain, "La Commune, les Communards, les ecrivains ou la haine et la gloire." December 2003. La revue des Anciens Élèves de l'École Nationale...
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    moved in and used the port and surrounding enclosure until the end of the Ancien Régime, helping to provide the town with its facilities; the site thus became...
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    it was designated as the capital of the province of Saintonge under the Ancien Régime. Following the French Revolution, it briefly became the prefecture...
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    Lyon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Pierre Edmond DESVIGNES. "Quartier renaissance Lyon : Vieux Lyon, quartier ancien et secteur sauvegarde Lyon". Vieux-lyon.org. Archived from the original...
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    DEPUIS 1715 JUSQU'À NOS JOURS - ANCIEN SECRÉTAIRE DES ARCHIVES DE LA COURONNE - VERSAILLES CHEZ DUFAURE IMPRIMEUR RUE DE LA PAROISSE 21 - 1838 Chaufourier...
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    changed its name to La Société Constructions Levallois-Perret, with Maurice Koechlin as managing director. The name was changed to the Anciens Etablissements...
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  • violent) protest. Several months later, Mademoiselle de Scudéri is riding in a glass coach over the Pont Neuf when a young man forces his way through the...
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    Louvre Palace (category Castles in Île-de-France)
    the Ancien régime associations and terminated on 8 August 1793. Barely more than two years later, however, they were recreated as the Institut de France...
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