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    council of each arrondissement is composed of members of the Conseil de Paris, and members who serve only on the council of the arrondissement. The number...
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    (Haute-Vienne and Creuse) Diocese of Tulle (Corrèze) (Champagne-Ardenne and Picardy) Metropolitan Archdiocese of Reims (arrondissement of Reims in the Marne and...
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    slightly different from those typical of Corsica and France. Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including...
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    classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 arrondissements and 2,054 cantons (as of 2023). These last two levels of government...
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    the Hôtel de Ville. To the south east of central Marseille in the 6th arrondissement are the Prefecture and the monumental fountain of Place Castellane,...
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    Cathedral in Paris. The archbishop resides on rue Barbet de Jouy in the 6th arrondissement, but there are diocesan offices in rue de la Ville-Eveque, rue St. Bernard...
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    hundred thousand inhabitants, and together Greater Strasbourg and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg have over five hundred thousand. Strasbourg's metropolitan...
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    (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Créteil. The city is, moreover, the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese...
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    Philippe Pasqua (in French). Paris: La Différence « Mains et Merveilles ». Tully, Judd (2006). Philippe Pasqua (in French). Santa Monica, California: Patrick...
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    were banned. In 1861, La Voce di Nizza was closed (temporarily reopened during the Niçard Vespers), followed by Il Diritto di Nizza, closed in 1871. In 1895...
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    control of Bagnaia, and he built two new fortifications: Montebello and Petra di Bugno. These were intended not only to dominate and control the northern part...
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    In Paris, Vietnamese stores are concentrated in the 13th arrondissement and 5th arrondissement of Paris. There is a large Vietnamese community in Germany...
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    hosiery Hôtel-Dieu-Lecomte apothecary Saint-Loup Museum (museum of fine arts) Di Marco Museum (Open from 1 April to 1 October, each year) Not having suffered...
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    Amadeus II, having abdicated, lived here with his second wife Anna Canalis di Cumiana before they were imprisoned at the Castle of Rivoli for trying to...
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    Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Nouvelle 92). France: Pierre Jannet. 1868 [1462].. Di Rocco A. (2009) Année 451 : la bataille qui sauva l'Occident. Eds. Thélès...
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    2015 prix Françoise Sagan Philippe Gache (born 1962), racing driver Éric Di Meco (born 1963), former footballer with 342 club caps and 23 with France...
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    suffered a naval blockade by the French Navy under the command of Filippo di Piero Strozzi and Antoine Escalin des Aimars, a former protagonist of the...
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    2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019. "Gemellaggio dal 2019 tra Anzio e la città di Caen". 14 May 2018. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved...
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    jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, and Valenciennes within the département...
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    (1393.07.07 – death 1423.10.10) Father Ludovico di Thierstein (1393 not possessed) Father Burcardo di Lützelstein (1393–1394) Guillaume de Diest (1394...
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    Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai, it encompasses the arrondissements of Dunkerque and Lille, within the department of Nord in the Region...
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    or partially sighted. In the 19th century Caudry started specializing in tulle and lace making. The first loom was installed in 1826 with parts smuggled...
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    Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni specialmente intorno ai principali santi ... compilazione di Gaetano Moroni:...
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    erected north of the Montrescu gate, the fortress was located in 1531 by F. di Giorgio on the order of Francis I (Francis I gate, with sculpted salamanders)...
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    Diocese of Blois was less extensive than at present, almost the entire arrondissement of Romorantin having been subject to the Bishopric of Orléans, and the...
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