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    yacht Aquitaine Innovations, was designed by Finot-Conq, and launched in June 1996 after being made by its own build team under the name Aquitaine Composites...
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    raced the Whitbread again. In 1997, Tabarly won the Fastnet Race on Aquitaine Innovations. In June 1998, the Pen Duick was en route from Cornwall to Scotland...
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  •  Thierry Dubois (FRA) Amnesty International  Yves Parlier (FRA) Aquitaine Innovations Fifteen skippers started the race a qualification passage was required...
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    1992–1993 Alain Gautier Bagages Superior 339 3 1996–1997 Yves Parlier Aquitaine Innovations 374 4 2000–2001 Dominique Wavre Union bancaire privée 430 5 2004–2005...
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  • Coville (FRA) Sodébo  Thierry Dubois (FRA) Solidaires  Yves Parlier (FRA) Aquitaine Innovations Twenty skippers started the race a qualification passage was required...
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    the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of...
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    Richard I of England (category Dukes of Aquitaine)
    from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes;...
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  • have remained the same. It has also become known as a test-bed for new innovations in yacht racing; many new ideas started out in "the STAR". The course...
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    Bourgnon on Primagaz. 1st monohull: Yves Parlier and Éric Tabarly on Aquitaine Innovations. This year was marked by the disappearance of Paul Vatine, on board...
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    monohull Sodeb'O 1998 : Winner of the Route du Rhum on monohull with Aquitaine Innovations 1997 : 2nd of the Mini Transat 1985-1991 : skipper of Polytechnique...
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  • on the development of Christophe Auguin's Geodis, Yves Parlier's Aquitaine Innovations and on the conception of Sodebo, Somewhere and on PRB 3 as well...
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  •  François-René Carluer (FRA) 16d 03h 33m 20s 30.63% 9.14 / 0 0 9 IMOCA 60 1 Aquitaine Innovations 1996 Finot  Thomas Coville (FRA) 18d 07h 53m 32s 48.27% 8.05 / 0...
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  • retired on the second stage in the Indian Ocean. In 2001 he bought Aquitaine Innovations for the next Vendée Globe. He finished fourth in the IMOCA class...
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    Louis VII of France (category Dukes of Aquitaine)
    France from 1137 to 1180. His first marriage was to Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe. The...
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  • "Ecureuil Poitou Isabelle Autissier FRA Pre-WSSR rules 57d 3h 2m 1998 Aquitaine Innovations Yves Parlier FRA Pre-WSSR rules 43d 3m 18s 2008 Feb Gitana 13 Lionel...
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  • Cowboy". On the Shoulders of Giants: 10 Quantum Pioneers of the Past. Aquitaine Innovation Advisors. pp. 164–179. ISBN 978-1-989478-20-2. Reed, M.; Randall...
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    divided between Pays de la Loire (Loire countries) and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (New Aquitaine). It is not as commonly spoken as it once was, as the standard...
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    was the youngest son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was nicknamed John Lackland (Norman: Jean sans Terre, lit. 'John without...
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  • many years. In 1971, Elf and Total merged their chemical operations into Aquitaine Total Organico (ATO), a joint subsidiary. The same year saw the creation...
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  • University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College 28 January 2016 Eleanor of Aquitaine Lindy Grant, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading...
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    1150–51, and gained control of the duchy of Aquitaine from his marriage to Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine, in 1152. He successfully pursued his claim to...
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    his major work was the Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum (Chronicle of Aquitaine and France). He is well-known for forging a Vita, purportedly by Aurelian...
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    The Regional Council of Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the deliberative assembly of the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The regional council is made up of...
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    allowed crop yields to increase, and technological and agricultural innovations introduced a "commercial revolution". Slavery nearly disappeared, and...
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    initial joint Anglo-Spanish attack was planned for the spring to recover Aquitaine for England, the start of making Henry's dreams of ruling France a reality...
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    and Maine. On 18 May 1152 he became Duke of Aquitaine in right of his wife by marrying Eleanor of Aquitaine in Poitiers after her first marriage with Louis...
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    England, English kings had held several territories, including Poitou, Aquitaine, Normandy, Anjou and Maine, and these holdings — at one point covering...
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    Education and Research (formerly Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation or Ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation)...
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    two Horizon-class frigates and eight FREMM Multipurpose frigates of the Aquitaine-class variant. The French Navy does not use the term "destroyer" but rather...
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    1214, most continental possessions of the empire, leaving England and Aquitaine to the Plantagenets. Charles IV the Fair died without an heir in 1328...
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