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    originally built as an eight-rise, which together with the ninth lock (the écluse de Notre-Dame, 710 metres (0.44 mi) to the northeast) allowed boats to cross...
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    Canal du Midi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    it rising from Toulouse (1) to the Seuil de Naurouze (2), then dropping down to Castelnaudary (3), Carcassonne (4) and Trèbes (5). The canal continues...
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    et les voies navigables de l'Atlantique à la Méditerranée, éditions Ouest-France, 2000, ISBN 2-7373-2475-0, p. 22 "Une écluse à Castanet-Tolosan". canaldumidi...
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    pleasure port. Castelnaudary station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne. In Roman times the location of the town was a staging post...
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    Situated on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the city is connected to the Île de Ré by a 2.9-kilometre-long (1+3⁄4-mile) bridge completed on 19 May 1988. Since...
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    of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France and had a population of 135,429, as of 2021. A central landmark of...
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    pronunciation: [məlœ̃] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region, north-central France. It is located on the southeastern outskirts...
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    and Pinot noir for the red. Crémant de Bourgogne: sparkling wine following the tradition of Champagne, Crémant de Bourgogne has a strong production in...
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