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    Le Vast (French pronunciation: [lə va]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. The village is located in the North-East...
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    18th century 19th to 21st century The islet belongs to the French commune of Le Mont-Saint-Michel, in the département of Manche, in Normandy. The nearest...
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  • "Vast right-wing conspiracy" is a phrase popularized by a 1995 memo by political opposition researcher Chris Lehane and then referenced in 1998 by the...
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  • Éculleville, Sainte-Croix-Hague, le Vast, Bricquebec, Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou, Hermanville-sur-Mer), Brittany (Locronan, le Leslay) and Nord-Pas-de-Calais...
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    Sainte-Mère-Église lies in a flat area of the Cotentin Peninsula known locally as le Plain (as opposed to the standard French term la plaine). The Plain is bounded...
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    2020-212 du 5 mars 2020 modifiant le décret n° 2014-246 du 25 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Manche Population...
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    Le Havre Athletic Club (French pronunciation: [lə ɑvʁ]) is a French professional association football club based in Le Havre, Normandy. The football club...
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    of Chester, a magnate under William the Conqueror, was the son of Richard le Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches. In 1172 (September 27–28) a council was held at...
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    The 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is widely...
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    Bosc-Roger, Bosc-Renoult, and Bosc-Robert. -vast is the only one that never appears as *Vast-, but autonomous as le Vast. The first element must be a personal...
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    energy for the City of London Corporation. Spetisbury is twinned with Le Vast, a village in the Manche department of Normandy, France. The Manche department...
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  • the band VAST, released on April 28, 1998 by Elektra Records. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Le Mystère Des...
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    1840. 12th year. p.275 Le Roux de Lincy, Antoine (1859). Le livre des proverbes français précédé de recherches historiques sur le proverbes français [The...
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    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known...
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    botanical garden and an art museum. Coutances is the location of Jazz sous les pommiers ("Jazz under the apple trees"), an annual jazz festival held since...
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    Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sovœʁ lə vikɔ̃t]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It is...
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    accustomed to a vast horizon." His architecture teacher in the Art School was architect René Chapallaz, who had a large influence on Le Corbusier's earliest...
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    Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking...
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    has media related to La Hague (commune). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques...
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    Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 10 May 1944; Bournemouth, England, 30 Jun 1944; Le Vast, France, 16 Aug 1944; Eure et Loir, France, 30 Aug 1944; Ozoir la Ferriere...
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    velvet and gilding, vast collections of armour and sculpture, a sense of Victorian horror vacui, and the highest masterworks of art. Le goût Rothschild has...
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    Notre-Dame. Communes of the Manche department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises...
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    Baie des Veys [fr], the outlet of the Douve and the Vire. The commune has a vast area in relation to neighbouring communes, it is bordered to the east by...
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    Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as...
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    Le Monde (French: [lə mɔ̃d] ; French for 'The World') is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported...
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    Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (French: [lə deʒœne syʁ lɛʁb, -ʒøn-]; The Luncheon on the Grass) – originally titled Le Bain (The Bath) – is a large oil on canvas...
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    The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (French pronunciation: [lise lwi lə gʁɑ̃]), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée...
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    walks, and patterned parterres that remains more coherent than the vast display Le Nôtre was to create at Versailles. The site was naturally well-watered...
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    René le Forestier, Les Illuminés de Bavière et la franc-maçonnerie allemande, Paris, 1914, Book 1, Chapter 3, pp. 45–72. René le Forestier, Les Illuminés...
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    particularly known for being a major site of fortifications designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: the watchtowers of Tatihou and La Hougue having been listed...
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