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    Saint-Claude-de-Diray (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ klod də diʁɛ]) is a commune in the department of Loir-et-Cher, central France. Communes of the Loir-et-Cher...
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  • Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe Saint-Claude, Jura Saint-Claude-de-Diray, Loir-et-Cher United States St. Claude, New Orleans, Louisiana, a neighborhood "Saint Claude"...
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    1968, INSEE Gregoire de Tours, De gloria confessorum. Le massif occidental de la collégiale Saint-Mexme de Chinon, Claude Andrault-Schmitt et Elisabeth...
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    ancienne (in French). Saint-Claude-de-Diray: Éditions Hesse. ISBN 978-2-35706-026-5. Leclant, Jean, ed. (2011) [2005]. Dictionnaire de l'Antiquité (in French)...
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    Fontevraud Saint Catherine's chapel with its lantern of the dead Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié (chapel of Our Lady of Compassion) Église Saint-Michel (church...
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    Blois Church, dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul, built between 1625 and 1660. St. Nicholas Blois Church, dedicated to bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra, built...
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    Loire Valley (redirect from Val de Loire)
    The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), is a valley located in the middle stretch...
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    castle, around which the modern town arose. Christianity was introduced by Saint Bienheuré in the 5th century, and the important abbey of the Trinity (which...
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    exercise of worship to the Protestants. Here was born in 1743 Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, known as Le Philosophe Inconnu (d. 1803)...
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    city (for example, at rue Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance, at rue des Carmes, at rue de la Bretonnerie, at Square Saint-Aignan). Museums in Orléans: Musée des...
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    hours to get to Charles de Gaulle Airport. Tours has two main stations: Gare de Tours, the central station, and Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, used by...
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    translator of classics Jeanne Delanoue (1666-1736), made a Roman Catholic Saint in 1982 François Bontemps (1753–1811), General of the French Revolutionary...
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    known of the châteaux of the Loire valley. There is a church dedicated to Saint Symphorien near the château that is interesting for the number of architectural...
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    Huet, Koutammakou : portraits en pays somba, Nord Bénin, Hesse, Saint-Claude-de-Diray, 2012, 155 p. (ISBN 978-2-35706-021-0) Albert-Marie Maurice, Atakora :...
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    Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ de kɔʁ] ) is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France...
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    north-central France. This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey). Founded around 630, it is one...
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    Mont-près-Chambord, Muides-sur-Loire, Ouchamps, Saint-Claude-de-Diray, Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire, Saint-Laurent-Nouan, Sambin, Seur, Tour-en-Sologne and Vineuil...
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    in the Loir-et-Cher department, region of Centre-Val de Loire. It is best known for its Château de Chambord, part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pʁive sɛ̃ mɛmɛ̃]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Communes of the...
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    Cléry-Saint-André (French pronunciation: [kleʁi sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃dʁe]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France, near Orléans. King Louis...
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    Montsoreau (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    Saint-Pierre de Rest Church: Inscribed in 1952, is a Twelfth, thirteenth and eighteenth century church formerly built in the Loire River bed. Saint-Peter...
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    strategic crossing of the Loire river. The château was expanded by Maximilien de Béthune, first duke of Sully and prime minister of King Henry IV of France...
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    in the Loir-et-Cher department and the administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France, known for its historical defensive walls and its castle. The...
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    by the invading Alans. The marais was drained, according to tradition by Saint Liphard around the year 520. The canalisation formed the watercourses known...
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    Saint-Laurent-Nouan (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃ nwɑ̃], [nuɑ̃]) is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department, central France. Saint-Laurent-Nouan...
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    church, which became a place of pilgrimage. Vençay was renamed Saint-Avertin in 1371. Jean de Coningham (? – 1495), Captain of the Scottish Guard of King...
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    in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, and the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is situated in the valley of the river Cher, a tributary...
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    Saint-Saturnin-sur-Loire Saint-Avertin Saint-Ay Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire Saint-Claude-de-Diray Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Saint-Denis-en-Val Saint-Denis-sur-Loire...
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    Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle (pronounced [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la ʁɥɛl]) is a commune in the Loiret department in the administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire...
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    populations légales en 2019, INSEE Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Michel-sur-Loire, EHESS (in French). Arrêté...
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