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    The Pont de l'Alma (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ də lalma], English: Alma Bridge) is a road bridge in Paris, France, across the Seine. It was named to commemorate...
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    The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nœf], "New Bridge") is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western...
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    The Pont de Grenelle-Cadets de Saumur, formerly known as Pont de Grenelle (English: Grenelle Bridge. "Cadets de Saumur" is the name of the students of...
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    Fortress of Mainz (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    [Fort Montebello] Inundationsschanze [Pont-écluse] Jean Dennis G.G. Lepage, French fortifications 1715-1815, Mayence p. 243-245 "Mainz". Penny Cyclopaedia...
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    The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central...
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    The pont de Tolbiac (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ də tɔlbjak]) is a bridge across the Seine in Paris built between 1879 and 1882 by H.P. Bernard, and J...
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    Louis-Philippe named it Pont du Carrousel, because it opened on the Right Bank river frontage of the Palais du Louvre near the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel...
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    The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge that spans the Seine in Paris. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel...
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    locks was reduced from twelve to eight. The first lock was named Écluse du Pont de Flandre ("Flanders Bridge Lock"), and it alone covered 10 metres (33 ft)...
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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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    The pont Mirabeau (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ miʁabo]) is an arch bridge which spans the Seine in Paris. It was built between 1895 and 1897 and named after...
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    passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement...
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  • The Pont Notre-Dame is a bridge that crosses the Seine in Paris, France linking the quai de Gesvres on the Rive Droite with the quai de la Corse on the...
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    84250°N 2.36917°E / 48.84250; 2.36917 The Pont Charles-de-Gaulle (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ ʃaʁlə də ɡol], Charles-de-Gaulle Bridge) is a steel-reinforced...
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  • of Jena, disregarding other names considered previously: pont du Champ-de-Mars and pont de l'École militaire. During the occupation of Paris by the Allies...
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  • Thumbnail for Pont Saint-Louis
    The pont Saint-Louis is a pedestrian bridge across the River Seine in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. It links the Île de la Cité with the Île Saint-Louis...
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    Cannes-Écluse (French pronunciation: [kan eklyz] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France....
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    The pont National (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ nasjɔnal]; named pont Napoléon-III from its construction until 1870) is a road and rail bridge across the...
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    House of Rohan (redirect from De Rohan)
    and Montfaucon, and Catherine Fouquet de La Varenne (1590-10/05/1670). Son of Charles d'Albert (05/08/1578 in Pont-Saint-Esprit – 15/12/1621 in Longueville)...
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    d'histoire de France", (2020), p. 26 Marianne Mulon, Noms de lieux d’Île-de-France, Bonneton, Paris, 1997, (ISBN 2862532207). "Le Monde", 25 May 2003, "Fontainebleau...
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    Saint-Martin-de-Ré (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ də ʁe], lit. "St Martin of Ré"; Saintongeais: Sént-Martin-de-Ré, before 1962: Saint-Martin) is a...
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    a commune on the river Marne in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is 41.1 km (25...
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    by the pont Bernard-Palissy, a few meters upstream ; the avenue Gambetta and the place Bassompierre are created ; the train station, the Gare de Saintes...
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    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 the Middle Ages the harbour...
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    Abbeville (category Use dmy dates from May 2015)
    Abbekerke; Picard: Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements...
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    Canal du Midi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (150 sq mi) of agricultural land. The Rigole de la plaine carries water from the Sor tapped from an offtake at Pont Crouzet for irrigation before emptying into...
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    simply Montereau, is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Montereau-Fault-Yonne straddles the...
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    twinned with: Mühltal, Germany Wilmington, United States Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Duke of Nemours Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department  This...
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    pronunciation: [vilɛʁ bʁətɔnø]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Villers-Bretonneux is situated some 19 km due east...
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    Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames (French pronunciation: [kuji pɔ̃.t‿o dam] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central...
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