in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the 1,200 km (750 mi) Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle...
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Paris–Brest–Paris (PBP) is a long-distance cycling event. It was originally a 1,200 km (750 mi) bicycle race in France from Paris to Brest and back to...
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miserably defeated. 1702 – St. Louis Church, Brest [fr] consecrated. 1749 – Saint-Sauveur Church built in Recouvrance. 1751 – Brest Prison built. 1752 – Académie...
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SS St. Louis was a passenger liner built in 1894 and sponsored by the wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. She entered merchant service in 1895, operating...
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Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death...
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St. Louis was immediately pressed into service returning troops to the United States. She returned 8,437 troops to Hoboken, New Jersey, from Brest, France...
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of Louis XVI:- Téméraire 74 (launched 17 December 1782 at Brest) – BU at Brest 1803 Audacieux 74 (launched 28 October 1784 at Lorient) – BU at Brest 1803...
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2024–25 Ligue 2. Angers Auxerre Brest Le Havre Lens Lille Lyon Marseille Monaco Montpellier Nantes Nice PSG Reims Rennes St-Étienne Strasbourg Toulouse Updated...
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Saint-Brieuc (redirect from St Brieuc)
Strasbourg, Brest "Normales climatiques 1981-2010 : Saint-Brieuc". www.lameteo.org. Retrieved 18 June 2022. "Normales et records pour St Brieuc (22)"...
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Battle of Camaret (redirect from Attack on brest)
Camaret, also referred to as the Brest expedition, was a notable engagement of the Nine Years' War. Expecting Brest to be unguarded as the French fleet...
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Saint-Malo (redirect from St Malo)
The city wall of St Malo. Commemoration of the Cartier expedition in the floor of the cathedral Houses in Saint-Malo Battle for Brest Jean-Marie Valentin...
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at Brest) – burnt to avoid capture 1760. Concorde, (launched 15 November 1755 at Brest) – wrecked 1756. Améthyste, (30-gun design by Mathurin-Louis Geoffroy...
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victory. She arrived at Brest on 15 November. Lauzun had a hero's welcome and was made maréchal de camp. On the death of his uncle, Louis Antoine de Gontaut...
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to command the 25-ship Brest fleet. Setting his flag on the 120-gun Montagne, Villaret reorganised and revitalised the Brest fleet. Among other measures...
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Brest on 20 May 1762. Arriving at Bay Bulls on 20 June, he landed 750 soldiers, led by Joseph-Louis-Bernard de Cléron d'Haussonville, who captured St...
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Louis and the frigate Infidèle, at Martinique and Brest. He was promoted in 1763 to lieutenant. St Aloüarn took command of the storeship Ecluse in 1767...
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princes. Casimir III of Poland urged Louis to intervene in his war with the Lithuanians who had occupied Brest, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and other important...
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Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (redirect from Louis de la Trinité)
libres. He was the chancellor of the Ordre de la Libération. He was born in Brest on 7 August 1889, in a family of Navy officers. He joined the École navale...
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Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (redirect from St QUENTIN en Yvelines)
St-Quentin-en-Yvelines France" "France beats favourites Spain to host 2018 Ryder Cup". BBC Sport. May 17, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2019. "Paris-Brest-Paris...
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Saint Louis in 1780, and of Grand Cross in 1784. He died during the French Revolution. La Motte-Picquet joined the Gardes de la Marine in Brest on 11...
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Adolphe Thiers (redirect from Louis Adolphe Thiers)
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/tiˈɛər/ tee-AIR, French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and...
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Battle of Saint-Mathieu (redirect from Battle of St. Mathieu)
took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard...
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Charles Edward Stuart (redirect from Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stuart)
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making...
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Lapérouse studied in a Jesuit college and joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in Brest on 19 November 1756. In 1757 he was appointed to the French ship Célèbre...
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Brest by these charts. In later years, he commented: "Had the young Captain Jervis not performed such a complete survey of this port then the Earl St...
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Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey (25 May 1856 – 8 July 1942) was a French general during World War I. As commander of the large Allied army...
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Guingamp. Amiens Bordeaux Angers Brest Dijon Lille Lyon Marseille Metz Monaco Montpellier Nantes Nice Nîmes PSG Reims Rennes St-Étienne Strasbourg Toulouse...
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Saint-Germain Rennes v Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain v Strasbourg Brest v Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain v Montpellier Reims v Paris Saint-Germain...
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Belle-Ile, Port-Louis and Croix, 15 February 1793. Authorizing the Chief of Army coast, 25 February 1793. Authorizing the Chief of Brest and Côtes de Cherbourg...
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100 mi), from Brest, France (on the Atlantic coast), to Irkeshtam, Kyrgyzstan (on the border with China). France N 265: Brest (E 50) N 165: Brest - Quimper...
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