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    The Mount Royal Tunnel (French: tunnel sous le mont Royal, tunnel du mont Royal) is a railway tunnel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tunnel is the third...
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    Chamonix (redirect from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc)
    autoroute blanche, which ends at Le Fayet, a village in the commune of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. The 11.6-km Mont Blanc Tunnel, which opened in 1965, links...
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    president, Christian LeClercq, died in July 2011. 1961 : Plaidoyer pour l’avenir 1965 : De la Savoie au Val d’Aoste par le tunnel du Mont-Blanc 1968 : Simples...
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  • Montreux Territet–Mont Fleuri (an abandoned one) Sierre–Montana–Crans (longest) Saas-Fee Metro Alpin in Felskinn–Mittelallalin Tunnel (highest) Neuchâtel-La...
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    mountains. Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, on the road to Chamonix and Mont Blanc, was the first to benefit from these tourists. Saint-Gervais-les-Bains has been a developing...
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    undertaken. Sir John Le Couteur studied selective breeding and became a Fellow of the Royal Society; his work led to the establishment of the Royal Jersey Agricultural...
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    Québécois En Perspective" (pdf). Les organismes de la sécurité publique. 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2021. "Sorties sous surveillance". Éducaloi. 2009...
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    a new tunnel near the Jenner tunnel then it splits into two: one link going to Mont-Gaillard, the other to Caucriauville. Finally, since 2001 Le Havre...
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    and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel. Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated...
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    the Lancastrian force during the Wars of the Roses, as was the Governor of Mont Orgueil, who had surrendered the castle to the French. The militia was not...
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    port for ferries between France and England, and since 1994, the Channel Tunnel has linked nearby Coquelles to Folkestone by rail. Because of its position...
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    The parishes of Jersey (Jerriais: Les pâraisses dé Jèrri) are the civil and religious administrative districts of Jersey in the Channel Islands. There...
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  • bailiff presides in the main trial court in his island – the Royal Court of Jersey and the Royal Court of Guernsey, where they sit with Jurats, elected lay...
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    the monument. The grounds of the site are still honeycombed with wartime tunnels, trenches and craters, closed off for public safety. The project took designer...
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    in the area, in which units like the 173rd, 3rd Australian and 255th Tunnelling Companies RE were involved. Laventie is the title of a poem by the war...
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    (1996). La Vie Quotidienne en Belgique sous la Règne de Léopold II (1856–1909) (in French) (Rev. ed.). Brussels: Éd. Le Cri. ISBN 2-87106-173-4. Duvergier...
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    the site of sustained underground fighting between German and British tunneling units. Givenchy-en-Gohelle was taken by the 2nd Canadian Division on 13...
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    evening, accompanied by other government ministers and a Guernseyman, Wallace Le Patourel VC.: 197  A formal States of Jersey sitting to honour the visitors...
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    Bas du Mont au Prêtre de Haut du Mont au Prêtre du Mont à l'Abbé du Mont Cochon Grouville des Marais de la Rue de Longueville de la Rocque Les Minquiers...
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    Maginot Line (category Tunnel warfare)
    ouvrages were generally made up of several infantry bunkers, connected by a tunnel network with attached underground facilities, such as barracks, electric...
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    their losses allegedly played a role in the Le Paradis massacre on 27 May, when 97 members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were shot after surrendering...
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    the main centre point of the city's defences, "la Citadelle", siting it on Mont Saint-Étienne, which closes the neck of the oxbow that is the site of the...
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    prehistoric human settlements in the Scarpe basin. The archaeological sites of Mont-Saint-Vaast in Arras and Biache-Saint-Vaast were Stone Age settlements of...
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    fine wines such as "Roussette," "Mondeuse," or "Persan." The Mont-Cenis railway tunnel was inaugurated in 1857 by King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy. Construction...
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    Ammunition, Royal Logistic Corps, and a leading British explosive ordnance disposal expert. In August 1998, he died in a roof collapse near a tunnel entrance...
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    Battalion of the 63rd Infantry Regiment crossed the Little Mont Cenis towards the village of Le Planay, where it joined the central column, while the 1st...
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    Proclamation de l'Empire sur la place de la Concorde. Les élections ont commencé sous les auspices les plus heureux [etc.] : [estampe]". Gallica. Retrieved...
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    John (2012), Jewels & Jackboots, Channel Island Publishing & Jersey War Tunnels, ISBN 978-1-905095-38-4 Sanders, Paul (2005), “The British Channel Islands...
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  • Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque: un 8e mort extrait des décombres de l'incendie par les secours". France 3 Occitanie (in French). 15 February 2022. Archived from...
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    MORT: LE BROUILLARD D'ENGIS (DEC.1930)". ROUGEs FLAMMEs. Retrieved 1 March 2021.. "20th Century in Engis, Clermont, Hermalle-sous-Huy". hermalle-sous-huy...
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