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    1720) François de Richebourg (c.1721-1723) François de Canappeville (c.1724-1726) Jean-Baptiste Bellingan (c.1727-1730) Jacques de Guenonville (c.1731-1733)...
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    of 94,145 in 1975. A new town founded at the will of King Louis XIV, Versailles was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of France for over a century,...
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    Élancourt (category Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
    Public junior high schools in Élancourt: Collège de l’Agiot Collège de la Clef de Saint-Pierre Collège Louis Pergaud In addition the community is served by...
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    Sous le régné de Louis XVI MDCCLXXXV, Jean-Pierre Blanchard des Andelys en Normand, Accompagne de Jean Jefferies Anglais, Partit du chateau de Douvre dans...
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    History of the City of Bapaume (in French) General Arms of France, Louis Pierre d'Hozier, Vol. 6, p. 24 (in French) Davies, Will (2010). In The Footsteps...
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    University Institute of Technology of Mantes en Yvelines Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University Mantes-la-Jolie is twinned with: Hillingdon, England...
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    Calais (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    French President Charles de Gaulle married Yvonne Vendroux. South of the Place and opposite the Parc St Pierre is the Hôtel-de-ville (the town hall), and...
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    Albert Louis Valentin Taviel [fr] (1767–1831), born in Saint-Omer, died in Paris, he was a general of the French Revolution and of the Empire. Pierre Alexandre...
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    Aire-sur-la-Lys (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Saint-Jacques-le-Maggiore and St. Ignatius: Church of Saint-Pierre: Church of Saint-Quentin Fort St. Francis (also called High Gassion), with some above-ground...
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  • The 2009–10 Coupe de France is the 93rd season of the French most prestigious cup competition, organized by the French Football Federation, and is open...
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    Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    existence A bird's-eye view on Hotel Royal Picardy (1929), by Louis Debrouwer and Pierre Drobecq Golf Hotel (1908), as seen from the croquet lawn in 1911...
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    passes through the commune and the Louis Blériot airport is in the middle of the commune. The small villages of Les Hemmes-de-Marck and Fort-Vert, both on the...
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    Liévin (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Comte Jonglez de Ligne 1879–1892, Louis Schmidt 1892, Félix Pamart 1893–1905, Edouard Defernez 1905–1912, Arthur Lamendin 1912–1913, Pierre Leroy 1914,...
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    Boulogne-sur-Mer (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Universités de l'été – summer courses in French language and culture. It is known as the Université d'été de Boulogne-sur-Mer. The Saint-Louis building of...
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    Wissant (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Becket sailed from Wissant to England, where he was martyred. Jacques and Pierre de Wissant were, with four others, voluntarily hostages in the siege of Calais...
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    Hesdin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Blondin (1824-1897) Henri Titelouze de Gournay (1871–1933) Clovis Normand François Dalle Jean-Louis Cottigny Jean-Pierre Jumez, internationally renowned guitarist...
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    Índice de la I Guerra Carlista. las Guerras Carlistas: Actas de Historia. Consultado el 11 de noviembre de 2012. Cevallos y no Ceballos, Índice de la II...
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    Neufchâtel-Hardelot (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    well as tennis and equestrian clubs.[citation needed] The church of St.Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century. A house named after the singer Madonna...
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    of the West Paris region, Les Clayes-sous-Bois became part of the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines agglomeration community on 1 January 2016 The twinning with...
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    Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    birthplace of Marie de St Pol (c1303-1377), foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise was the birthplace of Pierre Repp (1909–1986)...
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    received the vineyard lands now known as Romanee-Conti, Romanee-St-Vivant, Richebourg, La Romanee and La Tâche as a gift from the duchess of Burgundy. The Benedictines...
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    Hendecourt-lès-Ransart (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    1703 by Louis-Joseph Le Sergeant of Hendecourt on the site of an earlier manor house. The chateau and its farm were sold in 1878 to the Diesbach de Belleroche...
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    Wismes (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    small château of the Louis XV style The remains of a 12th-century feudal motte Baron Armel de Wismes [fr], writer and historian Louis Amadeus Rappe, the...
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    Zoteux (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    the D343 road. The church of St. Pierre, dating from the fifteenth century. The Louis XVI château. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department "Répertoire national...
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