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    Caen stone (French: Pierre de Caen) is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is...
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    Church of Saint-Pierre (French: Église Saint-Pierre) is a Roman Catholic church located on the Place Saint-Pierre in the centre of Caen in Normandy, northern...
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    Jardin botanique de Caen, a historic botanical garden Church of Saint-Pierre Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux Church of Saint-Jean de Caen Mémorial pour...
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  • The University of Caen Normandy (French: Université de Caen Normandie), also known as Unicaen, is a public university in Caen, France. The institution...
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  • Stade Malherbe Caen (French pronunciation: [stad malɛʁb kɑ̃]; commonly known as SM Caen, Malherbe, or simply Caen) is a French professional football team...
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  • The Calcaire de Caen or Calcaires de Caen Formation; French for Caen Limestone, is a geological formation in France. It dates back to the mid-Bathonian...
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    in the history of French architecture. Built in bricks, schist and pierre de Caen, the castle has a central pavillon topped by a roof lantern flanked...
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    the Académie de Physique in Caen (1662–1672) and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. He was born in Caen in 1630, and educated...
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    Caen Saint-Pierre station (CF du Calvados) Plan du réseau, TER Normandie, accessed 14 April 2022. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare de Caen...
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    Troyes Cathedral the Notre Dame de Versailles Church the Église Saint-Pierre de Caen the Église Saint-Martin d'Ivry-la-Bataille the Église...
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    Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Caen was founded in Caen (Normandy) by Jacques Moisant de Brieux in 1652. The Académie de Caen was the first academy of literature...
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    son of another François de Malherbe, conseiller du roi in the magistracy of Caen. He himself was elaborately educated at Caen, at Paris, at Heidelberg...
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    Tripes à la mode de Caen is a traditional dish of the cuisine of Normandy, France. In its original form this dish consisted of all four chambers of a...
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    Caen – Carpiquet Airport (French: Aéroport de Caen - Carpiquet) (IATA: CFR, ICAO: LFRK) is an international airport located in Carpiquet, 6 km west of...
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    The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name given to fighting between the British Second Army and the German Panzergruppe West in the Second...
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    Canal de Caen à la Mer (English: Canal from Caen to the sea, also called the "Caen Canal") is a short canal in the department (préfecture) of Calvados...
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] listen) (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist...
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  • now merged with Beaumont-le-Roger Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles), Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004, p.216-217. Among the other...
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    -0.29 The Port of Caen (French: Port de Caen) is the harbour and port authority of the Norman city of Caen, France. The port of Caen is composed of a series...
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    University of Caen to read theology. At the university, he was mentored by two enthusiastic teachers of mathematics, Christophe Gadbled and Pierre Le Canu,...
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  • Théâtre. Marcel Caens is violinist Maurice Caens' nephew. He is the father of trumpeter Thierry Caens, saxophonist Jean-Pierre Caens, Hervé Caens, a music teacher...
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    arrondissement of Caen were, as of January 2015: Bourguébus Bretteville-sur-Laize Cabourg Caen-1 Caen-2 Caen-3 Caen-4 Caen-7 Caen-8 Caen-9 Caen-10 Caen-Hérouville...
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  • The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a fine arts museum in the French city of Caen, founded at the start of the 19th century and rebuilt in 1971 within...
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  • national d'ions lourds, GANIL) The Caen Particle Physics Laboratory (le Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire, LPC Caen) at ENSICAEN, associated with Normandy...
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    The Boulevard périphérique de Caen is a ring road circling the French city of Caen. It is the route nationale 814. Traveling speed on the road is limited...
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    Saint-Pierre Airport (French: Aéroport de Saint-Pierre) (IATA: FSP, ICAO: LFVP) is a regional airport located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Saint-Pierre,...
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    went to school in Port-Gentil, then studied psychology at the University of Caen in France during the 1960s. While in France, he met the singer Mireille,...
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  • Pierre Bouet (born 19 July 1937 in Caen) is a 20th-century French historian specializing in Norman and Anglo-Norman historians of Latin language (tenth-twelfth...
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  • Le Zénith (redirect from Zénith de Caen)
    14000 Caen, France Built: Unknown Opened: June 1993 Capacity: ~7,000 Website: Zénith de Caen Website The Zénith de Caen (also known as Zénith Caen—Normandie)...
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    to the dignity of Marshal of France in 1984. Marie-Pierre Kœnig was born on 10 October 1898, in Caen, Calvados, France. His parents were from the Alsace...
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