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    Michel-Marie Poulain (born 5 December 1906, Nogent-sur-Marne, died 9 February 1991, Mandelieu-la-Napoule) was a French transgender performer and self-taught...
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    Tourves to La Colle-sur-Loup, 197.4 km (122.7 mi) Stage cancelled to due dangerously high wind speeds in the area. 11 March 2023 – Nice to Col de la Couillole...
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    Menton (redirect from Lycée de Menton)
    world as being the start of the climb of the Col de la Madone de Gorbio (generally shortened to Col de la Madone), which rises to 925 metres and was (in)famously...
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    by a merger with another commune: Peyresq with La Colle-Saint-Michel (under the name of Saint-Michel-Peyresq), the new entity was then merged with Thorame-Haute...
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    the way to the 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) category 2 climb of the Col de la Colle-Saint-Michel [fr] at 1,431 metres (4,695 ft) with an average gradient of 5...
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    ISBN 9783829766135. "Le col ou cime de la Bonette ou col de Restefond dans le Tour de France" (in French). ledicodutour. Retrieved 8 August 2022. "Cols du Télégraphe...
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    topographical order from west to east, the Maddalena Pass, the Col de Montgenèvre, the Col du Mont Cenis, the two St Bernard passes (Little St Bernard Pass...
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    the 2007 Tour de France. The 2019 Tour de France passed through Val d'Isère on July 26, on their way to Tignes, descending the Col de l'Iseran. Due to...
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    at the Col des Lèques, with Teklehaimanot second, with the aforementioned first over the Col de Toutes Aures and Col de la Colle-Saint-Michel. Team Sky...
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    Central group (the watershed between the Little St Bernard Pass and the Col du Mont Cenis) the Western or French group, and the Eastern or Italian group...
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    Barcelonnette (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    le col de la Magdeleine étant l'ancien nom du col de Larche, Colle della Maddalena in Italian. Dictionnaire historique et topographique de la Provence...
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    constructing human towers by competing colles castelleres (teams). This practice originated in Valls, on the region of the Camp de Tarragona, during the 18th century...
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    at Saint Sergius' Abbey, forms a natural history collection for teaching in the new school. The collections were enriched thanks to Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux...
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    Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (category Politicians from Hauts-de-France)
    occupy Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée. Sérurier moved north up the Tinée River and captured Isola on the 21st. With 3,000 troops, he attacked the Col de Raus west...
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    Bayons (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Reynier basin from the Esparron-la-Bâtie valley. From north to south: the Pategue (1282 m); the Charène Ridge; Colle Ridge; the Citadelle (1438m); the...
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    which they reached on April 9, 1682. In 1697, Enrico Tonti, Michel Accault, and François de la Forêt received permission from Governor Frontenac to establish...
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    Chris Froome (category 2012 Tour de France stage winners)
    half of the stage. These included the half paved-half gravel climb of the Colle delle Finestre, followed by the climb to Sestriere and the final uphill...
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    Primož Roglič (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    day during the fifth stage to Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut. He won the penultimate stage that finished at the top of the Col de Turini, and finished third on...
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    Ouvrage Sapey (category Séré de Rivières system)
    Jean; Aublet, Jean-Louis; Mainguin, Sylvie (2010). "Modane (Place de)". Index de la fortification francaise 1874–1914 (in French). fortiff.be. Retrieved...
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    2000, pp. 198–199, repr. col. p. 198, no. 234. 2000 Briend, Christian. "Albert Gleizes au Salon de la Section d'or de 1912". La Section d'or 1912, 1920...
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  • Index de la Ligne Maginot (in French). fortiff.be. Retrieved 25 January 2010. Puelinckx, Jean; et al. (2010). "Mont Agel (go du) Bloc 2". Index de la Ligne...
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    Fort du Télégraphe (category Séré de Rivières system)
    the Maurienne valley on the road to the Col du Galibier between Valloire and Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, at the Col du Télégraphe, dominating the valley of...
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    Prads-Haute-Bléone (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Chaudes (an ancient camp in ruins) La Favière Former commune of Blégiers: Blégiers Champourcin Chanolles Chavailles La Colle (uninhabited since 1982) Les Combes...
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    Vincenzo Nibali (category Tour de France winners)
    de France, but lost two and a half minutes to Chris Froome in the first week. He lost a further 4:25 on the first mountain stage to La Pierre-Saint-Martin...
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    ripulimento della lingua sarda lavorato sopra la sua antologia colle due matrici lingue, la greca e la latina. The intention that motivated Madau was...
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    Annot (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    Pelloussis Rock (1,340 m) Col de L'Iscle (1,384 m) on the same ridge west of the village: Le Roncheret (1,617 m), Le Puel (1,532 m), La Colle Durand (1,638 m)...
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    with the Grande Maye, was planned to bar an advance from Italy over the Col de Montgenèvre in the vicinity of the Gondrans. The garrison comprised 496...
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  • Ouvrage Barbonnet (category Séré de Rivières system)
    kilometres to the south of Sospel, dominating the road from Nice to the Col de Tende. This corridor represented the main invasion route to Nice from the...
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  • Deaths in February 2022 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    passes away Ravenna, calcio in lutto per la morte di Valentino Valli, calciatore degli anni ‘50: vinse lo scudetto col Milan e segnò una doppietta in Coppa...
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  • Pierre-Antoine de La Place, French writer and playwright (d. 1793) Jedidiah Preble, Captain of Infantry in Samuel Waldo's Regiment (d. 1784) March 2 Louis-Michel van...
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