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    Division and the 128th Division (the Wolves of Bois-le-Prêtre) and the German 121st Division. Bois le Prêtre is a Lorraine forest, to the north-west of the...
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    war and was notable for being the main French commander at the Fighting at Bois-le-Prêtre, leading the 73rd Infantry Division during the engagement. He...
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  • Very seriously wounded in the legs in December 1914 during the fighting at Bois-le-Prêtre, he refused to be amputated and, from his hospital bed, sent drawings...
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    the French lines. A first attempt, at Bois-le-Pretre (Priesterwald in German), failed, despite violent fighting. During two more attempts (Battle of Flirey)...
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    was fierce and bloody fighting here between the French 73rd and 128th Infantry Division (known as the " Wolves of Bois-le-Prêtre") and the German 121st...
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    seigneur de Chazelles │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├i>Pierre (+1490), prêtre, seigneur du Bois-d'Yoin-en-Lyonnais │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├i>Antoinette │ │...
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    region saw terrible fighting during the twentieth century wars between France and Germany. In the World War I fighting at Bois-le-Prêtre, Croix des Carmes...
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    Charité […] un tableau peint sur bois où est représenté un Baptême de Notre-Seigneur, et un autre tableau, aussi peint sur bois, où est représenté (sic) Notre-Seigneur...
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  • of May 1915. It remained in that area until March 1916, fighting in the Battle of Bois-le-Prêtre. It then fought in the Battle of Verdun. It briefly fought...
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    troops allocated to Task Force 135 were being sent to join the main army fighting in Europe.: 198  During September 1944, British aircraft dropped leaflets...
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  • Machine Les Eparges 14-18. Retrieved 8 February 2013 Croix des Carmes La Croix des Carmes 1 (Bois le Prêtre) Retrieved 3 February 2013 Cemeteries in Les Eparges...
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  • was cited July 4, 1915, "for rescue of wounded under fire," offensive Bois-le-Pretre, "Croix de Guerre with Star." In June 1915, he enlisted in the Foreign...
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  • vendeur de journaux (uncredited) Action Man (1967) - Le barman (uncredited) Hibernatus (1969) - Le prêtre moderne (uncredited) La vampire nue (1970) - Butler...
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    Todt and the Fortress Engineers in the Channel Islands. CIOS Archive book 8. Le Page, Martin (1995). A Boy Messenger's War: Memories of Guernsey and Herm...
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    scientifique (INRS). L'Institut de formation théologique de Montréal des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice (IFTM) specializes in theology and philosophy. Institut...
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    travel to Europe, as were the other Axis legations.: 65  German men of fighting age (18-45) were rounded up, most preferring British to Soviet control...
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    the front in the First World War after a reconnaissance mission in Bois le Prêtre in Belleville-sur-Meuse. Guillemin was born in Bonneveau in the Loire...
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    the Le Scaffs and the Richards crossed with the du Bois. The inscription reads "ICI REPOSE JEHAN LE SCAFF, SÉNÉCHAL DE LÉON EN MV ET ANNE DU BOIS SA COMPAGNE...
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    Churchill, on 27 September 1944, writing a note saying: "Let them starve. No fighting. They can rot at their leisure".: 100  The Channel Islands had been bypassed...
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  • Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b. 1918) 2017 – Georges Prêtre, French orchestral and opera conductor (b. 1924) 2019 – Harold Brown, 14th...
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  • preacher and wrote much on education, including Une nature supérieure de prêtre militant, alliant l'intégrité au talent, l'ardeur de la foi à l'éclat de...
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    Restored Film: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Brian De Palma Persol Tribute To Visionary...
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  • organised unit.: 217  By mid May 1940 the news was not good; Germans were fighting in France and individuals as well as whole families were making plans and...
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    Angeles Times. February 16, 1958. André Collonge, Le Scandale du XXe siècle et le drame des prêtres-ouvriers, Olivier Perrin, Paris, 1957 Canon 1382 of...
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    delivered.: 214  The wine trade was very important: in 1771 Guernsey merchant Le Marchant recorded 8,000 tons of claret shipped from Bordeaux to Ireland, noting...
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    pour le reglement de son diocese. Paris, Simon Langlois, 1703 Blouin, Annie. 1999. Les exigences pastorales de Mgr de Saint-Vallier envers ses prêtres, 1685–1727...
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