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    The Pont-l'Évêque Prison, also known as Joyeuse Prison, is a building constructed in the early 19th century in Pont-l'Évêque, in the French department...
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    bridges and roads in France. Pont-l'Évêque thus means "Bishop Bridge". It was Latinised as Pons-Episcopi. Pont-l'Évêque station has rail connections to...
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    Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant (Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 – Bern, 1829), was a French painter. Pupil of Jean-Baptiste Descamps...
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    Bastille (redirect from Bastille Prison)
    corner of the Boulevard Henri IV and the Quai de Celestins, where they can still be seen today. The Pont de la Concorde contains stones reused from the...
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  • Einville-au-Jard see: Blâmont see: Pont-à-Mousson see: Blâmont see: Baccarat see: Delme at Moselle (57) see: Pont-à-Mousson see: Conflans-en-Jarnisy see:...
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    which was dedicated in 1791 as the Pont Louis XVI. It was renamed the pont de la Revolution in 1792; then, in 1795, Pont de la Concorde. An attempt was also...
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    Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    géant Pont du Diable (ou Pont de Saint Guilhem datant du Moyen Âge) enjambant l'Hérault Nouveau pont sur l'Hérault (1932), à l'entrée des gorges de l'Hérault;...
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    Paul Gauguin (category Pont-Aven painters)
    to one month in prison, citing Charles Chassé, "Les Démêlés de Gauguin avec les gendarmes et l'évêque des îles Marquises", Mercure de France, 288 (15...
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    Dean's Park. York Minster was severely damaged by a fire in 1137. Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Archbishop of York from 1154 to 1181, rebuilt the minster, and appears...
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    the Pope was the prisoner of Napoleon, and he remained in his genteel prison at Fontainebleau for nineteen months. From June 1812 until 23 January 1814...
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    Coutances, Bayeux, and Pont l'Evêque. One-fourth of all salt produced in this region went to the royal granaries. the Pays de salines; these provinces...
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    10 May 1729, along with Anne Galtier, she was conducted to the prison of For-l'Évêque, and later imprisoned in the Salpêtrière. Nicknamed "The Englishwoman"...
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    Battle of Bouvines (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    which he had recently lost to Philip II, King of France, in the Treaty of Pont-à-Vendin. He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition...
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    Le Havre (redirect from Le Havre-de-Grace)
    Court of Appeal of Rouen. The prison, which dates from the Second Empire, was completely destroyed in 2012. The new prison for Le Havre was completed in...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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    making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire. Fifty arrests...
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    mathematician Abraham de Moivre initially studied logic at Saumur. Marquis de Sade was briefly imprisoned in the Château de Saumur (then a prison) in 1768. Jehan...
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  • Blanche drove to the countryside, parking on a small dirt road near Pont-l'Évêque. He claimed to be a part of a network of human traffickers and must...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    du Pont, Archbishop of Bourges, and was attended by Bishop Joseph-Auguste-Victorin de Morlhon of Le Puy (1846–1862). Gustave Delacroix de Ravignan...
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    Committee was created on 22 May 1793, the committee was not very active; its prison opened in September. Forty-nine people were arrested in Thiers, primarily...
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    the AOC areas of the Pont-l'Évêque and of the Camembert of Normandy [fr] as well as being partially within the Calvados, Pommeau de Normandie [fr] and the...
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    Avrillé, Cantenay-Épinard, Écouflant, Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, Trélazé, Les Ponts-de-Cé, Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire, Bouchemaine and Beaucouzé. 22 other communes...
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    were the sieur de Beaudiné; the seigneur de La Meilleraye governor of Pont L'Évêque; the lieutenant general of Picardie the sieur de Sénarpont, the governor...
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    Mende, Lozère (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    However, this war which began with the murder of Father du Chayla at Le Pont-de-Montvert never reached Mende. In 1721, the Great Plague arrived in Gévaudan...
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  • excommunicated Roger de Pont L'Évêque, the archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, the bishop of...
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    Montsoreau (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    2018. Loire, Région Pays de la. "Le pont de Montsoreau ou de Varennes-Montsoreau" [The Montsoreau bridge]. Patrimoine des Pays de la Loire (in French). Retrieved...
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    1793; he was replaced by a Jacobin. The château was transformed into a prison from 1793 to 1794, designated for suspects from the Department of Oise....
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    rest of the Church of England, is a member of the Anglican Communion. Walter de Grey purchased York Place as his London residence, which after the fall of...
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  • Council; Mallon came up with the idea while serving time in Portlaoise Prison. Mallon was put in charge of a Special Operations unit with orders to raise...
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  • 1180s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    23 – Adela of Meissen, queen consort of Denmark November 26 – Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Norman archbishop December 3 – Galgano Guidotti, Italian nobleman...
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