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    Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe ([bu. də la mœʁt]; 19 February 1761 – 4 February 1840), was a French politician and magistrate. Boulay was the son...
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    Vosges (French pronunciation: [voʒ] ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after...
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  • Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, later being named professor of botany at the Catholic University of Lille (1875). The Jardin botanique Nicolas Boulay at the university...
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    replaced by copies). A café Les Deux Magots opened in Tokyo in 1989. Catherine Mathivat, great-great-granddaughter of Auguste Boulay, started to work in the...
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    Épinal (redirect from Épinal, Vosges)
    Spinalium) is a commune in northeastern France and the prefecture of the Vosges department. The commune has a land area of 59.24 square kilometres (22.87 sq mi)...
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    and borders by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Belgium to the north. Parts of Meuse belong to...
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    southern Meurthe-et-Moselle) Spinalian (Épinal, central Vosges) Deodatian (Saint-Dié, Hautes-Vosges) After 1870, members of the Stanislas Academy in Nancy...
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    consisted of the four departments Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges (from a historical point of view the Haute-Marne department is also located...
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    Roman Empire encompassing the pays de Barrois and centred on the city of Bar-le-Duc. It was held by the House of Montbéliard from the 11th century. Part of...
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    River, east of the Vosges Mountains; the section initially in Lorraine was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges. The territory encompassed...
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    largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, Moselle and Bas-Rhin and it borders the Belgian province of...
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    The Three Bishoprics (French: les Trois-Évêchés [le tʁwɑz‿evɛʃe]) constituted a government of the Kingdom of France consisting of the dioceses of Metz...
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    northern Alsace. One attack broke through a weak section of the line in the Vosges Mountains, but the French defenders stopped a second attack near Wissembourg...
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    Bar-le-Duc (French pronunciation: [baʁ lə dyk] ), formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department...
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  • Thumbnail for Arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
    Bistroff Boucheporn Boulay-Moselle Bousbach Boustroff Bouzonville Brettnach Brouck Brulange Cappel Carling Château-Rouge Chémery-les-Deux Cocheren Colmen...
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    The arrondissement of Neufchâteau is an arrondissement of France in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region. It has 175 communes. Its population...
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    Parliament of Nancy in 1776. There was also a chambre des comptes at Bar-le-Duc. Simon & Gérard 1967, p. 72. Poupardin, René (1911). "Lorraine" . In Chisholm...
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  • Thumbnail for Arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
    The arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges is an arrondissement of France in the Vosges department in the Grand Est région. It has 96 communes. Its population...
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    in the valley of the river Nied (in Pays de Nied, whose largest town is Boulay-Moselle), to distinguish it from the other two Franconian dialects spoken...
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    Ouvrage Hackenberg (category Fortified sector of Boulay)
    of the Maginot Line fortifications, is part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It is situated twenty kilometres east of Thionville, in the Moselle département...
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    Ouvrage Anzeling (category Fortified sector of Boulay)
    is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, part of the Fortified Sector of Boulay. It is located between petit ouvrage Bousse and petit ouvrage Berenbach...
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    department of northeastern France, it was designed to protect the northern Vosges region of France. Ouvrage Hochwald is sometimes considered as two ouvrages...
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    the Moselle department, along with Alsace and portions of the Meurthe and Vosges departments, went to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the...
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    la Ligne Maginot d'Alsace. Retrieved 12 June 2010. Burtscher, Jean-Louis. "Le Schoenenbourg avant 1940". Association des Amis de la Ligne Maginot d'Alsace...
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  • Thumbnail for Fortified Sector of the Vosges
    The Fortified Sector of the Vosges (Secteur Fortifiée des Vosges) was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the Maginot...
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    Boulay and Creutzwald. The commune is located 3 km from the German border. Tromborn is 32 km from Metz, 6 km from Saarlouis and 11 km from Boulay. An...
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    Kobenbusch Oberheid Galgenberg Sentzich Métrich Billig Fortified Sector of Boulay Hackenberg Coucou Mont des Welches Michelsberg Hobling Bousse Anzeling Berenbach...
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    important painters, including Claude Lorrain, Georges de La Tour and Jean LeClerc. Like most of France's regional languages (such as Breton, Franco-Provençal...
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  • Thumbnail for Fortified Sector of Haguenau
    (western) wing of the Haguenau sector adjoined the Fortified Sector of the Vosges, includes two of the largest Maginot fortifications, Ouvrage Hochwald and...
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    Metz, independent city (Stadtkreis) "Kreis Bolchen", seated in Bolchen (Boulay) "Kreis Château-Salins", seated in Château-Salins "Kreis Diedenhofen-Ost"...
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