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    (Châtelet–Les Halles station) N31 to Paris (Gare de Lyon) N131 to Paris (Gare de Lyon) via Brétigny station N144 to Paris (Gare de l'Est) via Corbeil-Essonnes Paris...
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  • Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, De Fennouillet is sitting on Marconi's shoulders with a live grenade in his mouth, while Marconi stands on a live...
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    Kings of Granada (French: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade) is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Regnault. Completed in 1870, it...
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    golden room of restaurant Le Train Bleu in Paris-Gare de Lyon train station. Nature morte à la grenade, à l'orange, aux cerises et aux figues, private...
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    French newspapers accused of pro-Israeli leanings. He claimed to be the grenade thrower at a Parisian restaurant in an attack that killed two and injured...
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    1916: the Colonial Troops adopt the badge of an anchor over a flaming grenade (the latter being a traditional distinction of elite troops). 1919: All...
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    August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the...
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  • The Day of the Jackal (category Cultural depictions of Charles de Gaulle)
    Juin 1940 (in front of the soon-to-be-demolished façade of the Gare Montparnasse), where de Gaulle is presenting medals to a small group of Resistance veterans...
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    one-in-three regional TER trains and one-in-two TGV or Ouigo services running. At Gare de Lyon train station, several hundred unionists and strikers demonstrated...
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    Boabdil's Farewell to Granada (French: L'Adieu du roi Boabdil à Grenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Dehodencq. It was first exhibited at the...
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    the commune which feed the Pique including the Boums de Port and the Étang de la Frèche. The Gare de Luchon railway station is the SNCF terminal station...
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    the government. On 27 August 1915, 1,700 Chinese workers arrived at the Gare de Lyon to take positions in the Renault tank factory and other defense works...
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    Toulouse metropole)" Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, 21 February 2019. "Le RER toulousain entre en gares". ladepeche.fr. Retrieved...
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    Siege of Calais (1940) (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
    the Place de Europe to make a joint final defence of the harbour. At 2:30 p.m. the Germans finally overran the Gare Maritime and the Bastion de l'Estran...
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    incendiary grenades and smoke grenades model 1916 were preferred. At the end of 1915, the first trials of the Viven-Bessières rifle grenade began. In 1916...
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    Paris and Lyons. At 6:15 am, the Train a Grande Vitesse pulled out of the Gare de Lyon in Paris with 772 passengers, then accelerated along the high-speed...
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  • the headquarters of the Schneider group, demanded that someone go to the Gare de Lyon to collect a message left in locker 595. One of the members of the...
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    Unexploded ordnance (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    explosive remnants of war (ERW or ERoW) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, and other munitions) that did...
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  • Philippines in January 1945. William Henry "Bull" Garing, CBE, DFC, Royal Australian Air Force – Group Captain Garing received the Army Distinguished Service Cross...
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    History of whaling (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    harpoon gun that fired a grenade and harpoon at the same time and was able to catch thirty whales in 1868. He patented his grenade-tipped harpoon gun two...
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    83-13n – the youngest, André, was born in the ladies only room at the Gare de Lyon, Bercy, on 28 April 1879. Poulenc, p. 26 Myers, p. 7 Poulenc, p. 30...
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    Lufthansa Flight 181 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    authorities discovered that Payot had also been called several times from Gare du Nord in Paris. The letter received by Payot from the hijackers, addressed...
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    List of terrorist incidents in France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    silences de Frédéric Boulay" [The silences of Frédéric Boulay]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2024-01-22. "Les attentats de 1986 en France : un cas de violence...
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  • Lille during World War II (category History of Hauts-de-France)
    48, 51. Landry 1982, p. 26. "Bombardement de Lille (la gare deLomme)" (in French). Institut National de l’Audiovisuel. 14 April 1944. Caniot 2009, p...
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  • of an Orchestra), "sergeant-chef" (Staff Sergeant), "chef de gare" (stationmaster), "chef de famille" (head of household), etc. More casually in a work...
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    "Lest We Forget Part 2: As The Lusitania Went Down". Encyclopedia Titanica. Gare Maritime. As the Lusitania went down. F.K. Root & Co. 1915. "As the Lusitania...
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    Maxim Litvinov, caught while boarding a train with his mistress at Paris's Gare du Nord with twelve of the 500-ruble notes he intended to cash in London...
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    Battle of Boulogne (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
    unarmed. When the sheds came under German fire, Lewis moved the group into the Gare Maritime (harbour railway station) and had sandbag barricades built. On the...
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    07°21′22.32″E / 48.1303389°N 7.3562000°E / 48.1303389; 7.3562000 (Bennwihr Gare)) to cover the withdrawal of other members of his squad and was posthumously...
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    is located on the Toulouse-Bayonne line. The SNCF Gare de Lannemezan is situated on Avenue de la Gare, and is on the line from Toulouse to Bayonne, 1.7...
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