Fort de Joux (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ də ʒu]) or Château de Joux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʒu]) is a castle, later transformed into a fort,...
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government and parliament is in the city of Geneva. Geneva is the French-speaking westernmost canton of Switzerland. It lies at the western end of Lake Geneva...
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Fort-de-France 3rd Canton Fort-de-France 4th Canton Fort-de-France 5th Canton Fort-de-France 6th Canton Fort-de-France 7th Canton Fort-de-France 8th Canton Fort-de-France...
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Paris (redirect from Paris, Île-de-France, France)
known as the City of Light. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271...
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Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...
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fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a Iris pseudacorus (in French,...
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Cayenne (redirect from Cayenne, France)
kilometres (4,400 mi). Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique: 1,500 kilometres (930 mi). Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia (France) : 15,427 kilometres (9...
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The canton of Bern, or Berne (German: Kanton Bern; French: canton de Berne; Romansh: Chantun Berna; Italian: Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming...
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Washington and his men reached Fort Le Boeuf. Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre succeeded Marin as commander of the French forces after Marin died on October...
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Chillon Castle (redirect from Chateau de chillon)
Chillon Castle (French: Château de Chillon) is an island medieval castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud. It is situated...
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The Fort de Maulde, also known as Fort de Beurnonville and the Ensemble de Maulde, is located to the south of Maulde, France. It is part of the Fortified...
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Principaux_tableaux_population_2018" (in French). Archived from the original (ODS) on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019. Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF)...
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The Invasion of Isle de France was a complicated but successful British amphibious operation in the Indian Ocean, launched in November 1810 during the...
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Versailles, Yvelines (redirect from Versailles, Ile-de-France)
Versailles (French pronunciation: [vɛʁsɑj] ) is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles...
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Monaco (redirect from Fort-Hercule)
Vanity Fair (in French). 17 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2016. Lyall, Sarah; Baume, Maïa de la (11 December...
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The Fort de Seclin, also known as Fort Duhoux, is located near the commune of Seclin, France, about 9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) south of Lille. Built from...
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Second Opium War (redirect from Anglo-French expedition to China (1856-1860))
British subjects led in 1847 to the Expedition to Canton which assaulted and took, by a coup de main, the forts of the Bocca Tigris resulting in the spiking...
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The demography of France is monitored by the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études...
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Valais (redirect from Wallis (canton))
/ˈvæleɪ/ VAL-ay, US: /væˈleɪ/ val-AY; French: [valɛ] ), more formally, the Canton of Valais, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It...
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The Fort de Cindey (Swiss designation A155) is a component of Fortress Saint-Maurice, which is in turn one of the three principal fortified regions of...
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the Alpine front since France and Italy had defensive strategies. There was some skirmishing between patrols and the French forts of the Ligne Alpine exchanged...
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Wallis and Futuna Bora Bora, French Polynesia Clipperton Island Ranked by population in the metropolitan area: Fort-de-France (Martinique): 347,170 inhabitants...
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Lake Geneva (redirect from Lac de Genève)
belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty percent (234.71 km2 or 90.62 sq mi) to France (the department of Haute-Savoie)...
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Geneva (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Conseil administratif" (official site) (in French). Geneva, Switzerland: République et canton de Genève. 7 April 2020. Archived from the original on 13...
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Chambly, Quebec (redirect from Fort-Chambly, Quebec)
Lawrence River. It was formed from the merger in 1965 of Fort-Chambly (formerly Chambly-Canton prior to 1952) and the old city of Chambly (formerly Chambly-Basin...
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Fribourg (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Fribourg (French: [fʁibuʁ] ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine...
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located in the Jura Mountains near the Swiss border with France. The fort defended the Col de Jougne at Vallorbe, one of the few points in the Jura that...
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Mont-de-Marsan (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ də maʁsɑ̃]; Occitan: Lo Mont de Marçan) is a commune and capital of the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
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The Fort de la Pompelle, also known as Fort Herbillon, is one of a number of forts built around Reims after 1870 as part of a fortification belt in the...
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belt of fortifications around Lyon, which also includes Fort de Vancia, Fort de Feyzin and Fort du Mont Verdun. Its history is linked to the Franco-Prussian...
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