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    of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany...
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  • The cantons of Nantes are administrative divisions of the Loire-Atlantique department, in western France. Since the French canton reorganisation which...
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    The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities...
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    Pays de la Loire and not to the region of Brittany, as the territory of Loire-Atlantique is historically part of the province of Brittany. Nantes (Breton:...
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  • Guémené-Penfao Guérande Machecoul-Saint-Même Nantes-1 Nantes-2 Nantes-3 Nantes-4 Nantes-5 Nantes-6 Nantes-7 Nort-sur-Erdre Pontchâteau Pornic Rezé-1 Rezé-2...
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    education institutions: Université de Nantes — La Roche-sur-Yon Campus: An extension of the University of Nantes, this campus hosts a variety of undergraduate...
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    Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to Protestants, the Protestant cantons began to favor military service with the...
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    Accounts to Nantes. Nantes, nicknamed "the city of the Dukes of Brittany", was also the permanent residence of the last dukes. The Château des ducs de Bretagne...
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    Philippe Latombe (category People from Nantes)
    Loire-Atlantique in the canton of Nantes-4, when he received 5.1% of the first-round vote. In the 2015 regional election in Pays de la Loire, he was placed...
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    The Township of Whitton became the Municipality of Nantes. 16 March: The Parish of Saint-Paschal-de-Kamouraska became the Municipality of Saint-Pascal...
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    de religion à l'édit de Nantes, de la Révocation à la Révolution. Paris: Librairie générale française. 2000. ISBN 2-253-14779-6., series: Le livre de...
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  • rejoined the Union for a Popular Movement on that date. Defeated in her canton of Nantes in the elections of 2004, she carried out the function of secretary...
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    includes parts of Rennes but also the commune of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Canton of Rennes-6 (46,750 inhabitants), which includes parts of Rennes but also...
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    "Allocution de M. François Mitterrand, Président de la République, aux cérémonies du tricentenaire de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, sur la tolérance...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    Brussels, 774 km (481 mi) north of Marseille, 385 km (239 mi) northeast of Nantes, and 135 km (84 mi) southeast of Rouen. Paris has an oceanic climate within...
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    Religion in Switzerland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Theravada Buddhist temple in Gretzenbach, canton of Solothurn. Jewish synagogue of La Chaux-de-Fonds, canton of Neuchâtel. Masonic temple of Lindenhof...
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    Lausanne (category Municipalities of the canton of Vaud)
    (Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire) Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (Musée cantonal des beaux-arts) Cantonal Museum of Zoology (Musée cantonal de zoologie)...
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    north-western France. It lies at the confluence of the river Blavet and the Canal de Nantes à Brest. Inhabitants of Pontivy are called Pontivyens in French. A monk...
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    château was built in the medieval fortress. The town is situated between Nantes and Rennes, and tends to be economically oriented towards the latter. The...
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    XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, which revoked the Edict of Nantes, that had given substantial rights to French Protestants. It forbade Protestant...
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  • kurde de Paris (www.institutkurde.org). October 2005. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023. CitiZen Nantes (3 June...
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    Tsoundzou I and Tsoundzou II. The commune is also subdivided into three cantons: Mamoudzou-1, Mamoudzou-2 and Mamoudzou-3. The government owns the radio...
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    between France and the Canton of Geneva dating from the 1960s, and enables travel between the neighboring French region of Pays de Gex and the airport while...
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    Charts, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 30 May 2023. "Communes in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique, France) - Population Statistics,...
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    of Nantes; after returning she was introduced to Ms. de Couëtus de la Brossardière, who sent her on errands for saving the priests outside of Nantes.,...
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    France (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    British Isles and Switzerland. The wars were ended by Henry IV's Edict of Nantes, which granted some freedom of religion to the Huguenots. Spanish troops...
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    dramatically with many Parisians staying for weeks and regular day-trippers from Nantes. Parisians can take the train in Paris Montparnasse Station and it is about...
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    was made up of the cantons of Nantes-5, 6 and 7. In 1986, this was changed to the cantons of Nantes-2, 3, 4 and 9. (In 2015, Nantes-9 was abolished and...
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    connection. In 1857, the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (railroad company of Orléans) connected Saint-Nazaire to Nantes. In 1862, the first transatlantic...
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