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    ParisBourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent...
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  • Radiola, founded by pioneering French engineer Émile Girardeau in 1922. It became Radio Paris on 29 March 1924, and remained so through 17 June 1940, transitioning...
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    The Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: Archidioecesis Parisiensis; French: Archidiocèse de Paris) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese...
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    and 1000 meters and silver medalist at the first Women's Olympics in 1922 in Paris, and she was a pioneer in women's sports. Georgette Lenoir was born...
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    Louis Bourdaloue (category Clergy from Bourges)
    Bourdaloue was born in Bourges where his father practiced law. He began his studies at the Jesuit Collège de Sainte-Marie in Bourges. In November 1648 he...
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    Berthe Morisot (category Artists from Bourges)
    Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. Morisot was born January 14, 1841, in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot...
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    violent conflict with Pope Innocent II, however, when the archbishopric of Bourges became vacant. The king supported the chancellor Cadurc as a candidate...
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  • René de Lespinasse (category Politicians from Bourges)
    1843, in Bourges – 16 February 1922, in Nevers) was a French historian and politician. He was a member of the Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France...
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    Faculty of Law of Paris (French: Faculté de droit de Paris), called from the late 1950s to 1970 the Faculty of Law and Economics of Paris, is the second-oldest...
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  • communists and the libertarians came to a head at the CGTU's congress in Bourges, in November 1923. At the congress, the anarcho-syndicalist Marie Guillot...
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  • Oreille café in Bourges was accidentally given a star when it was confused with a restaurant of the same name in Boutervilliers, near Paris. In the 21st...
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    Les Invalides (category Monuments and memorials in Paris)
     'The Invalids'), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military...
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    1918 Boulton Paul P.7 Bourges 1918 Boulton Paul Atlantic 1919 Boulton Paul P.9 1919 Boulton Paul P.10 1919 Boulton Paul Bolton 1922 Boulton Paul Bugle 1923...
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    (1923-1930); and Béla Bartók from Hungary (after 1922). The American composer George Gershwin came to Paris in 1926 and 1928 and tried (without success) to...
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  • Vladimir Jankélévitch (category Writers from Bourges)
    parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris, under Professor Bergson. In 1924 he...
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  • executioner was required to live in Paris, people soon started to refer to him as "Monsieur de Paris", "The Mister from Paris". At the occasion of his nomination...
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    Louis-Ernest Dubois (category Archbishops of Bourges)
    Archbishop of Bourges in 1909, where he actively participated in helping soldiers and their families during the First World War. He served in Bourges until he...
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    Aquitanian-held towns and strongholds of Bourbon, Clermont, Chantelle, Bourges and Thouars, defended by Waiofar's Gascon troops, who were overcome, captured...
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    Jesuit writer and music critic considered the father of naturalism. Élémir Bourges (1852-1925) born in Manosque, novelist and journalist. Jean Giono (1895-1970)...
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    and repeated Clemenceau's words: I will fight in front of Paris, in Paris, and behind Paris. To this, Churchill subsequently reported, Pétain replied...
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    Alexandre Millerand (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    alongside the Marquis de Galliffet, who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French Section of the Workers' International...
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    had become prime minister. At the Paris Peace Conference, he favoured Allied occupation of the Rhineland. In 1922 Poincaré returned to power as prime...
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    Sancerre in the diocese of Bourges in 1934. He studied at the French Seminary in Rome. He was named Vicar General of Bourges in 1980, and Bishop of Dijon...
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    Indre-et-Loire, Loire-et-Cher, Nièvre and Vienne, with its center at Bourges) in the "Constitutional Church". The clergy were required to swear and...
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    experimental 57 mm gun which was first assembled in September 1891 at the Bourges arsenal under the direction of Captain Sainte-Claire Deville. This 57 mm...
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    of the Tour de France and won the 1920 Volta a Catalunya. 1913 5th ParisBourges 1919 1st Overall Volta a Tarragona 1st Stages 3 & 4 1920 1st Overall...
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  • Notre-Dame de Paris, wood (14th century), destroyed in the early 1790s Charles VII above the entrance of the Palais Jacques Coeur in Bourges (c.1450), destroyed...
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    du Sud 3rd Overall Tour de Picardie 3rd Tour de Vendée 3rd Overall ParisBourges 4th Grand Prix de Mauléon-Moulins 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 10th...
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    whom he recorded "Y'a d'la joie" (1938) for the first and "La Romance de Paris" (1941) and "Douce France" (1947) for the latter. He was awarded an Honorary...
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    Gaveau, is a classical concert hall in Paris, located at 45-47 rue La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is particularly intended for chamber...
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