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    Brienne-le-Château (French pronunciation: [bʁijɛn lə ʃɑto]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. It is located 1 mile (2 km) from...
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    Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Brienne-le-Château"...
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    French seized a château, nearly capturing Blücher. However, the French were unable to dislodge the Russians from the town of Brienne-le-Château. Napoleon himself...
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    The canton of Brienne-le-Château is an administrative division of the Aube department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    Keller-Dorian cinematography for its color sequences. The film begins in Brienne-le-Château with youthful Napoleon attending military school where he manages...
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  • Bar-sur-Aube Bar-sur-Seine Brienne-le-Château Creney-près-Troyes Nogent-sur-Seine Les Riceys Romilly-sur-Seine Saint-André-les-Vergers Saint-Lyé Troyes-1...
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    rebuilt the castle in Brienne-le-Château, and bought in Paris a beautiful town house in the Rue Saint-Dominique called Hôtel de Brienne, current residence...
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  • administrative division based on Brienne-le-Château County of Brienne, a medieval fiefdom based on Brienne-le-Château Brienne-sur-Aisne, a commune in the Ardennes...
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    Donnement 25.7 15 LXVI Breone Brienne-le-Château Donnement – Brienne le Château 17.8 16 LXV Bar Bar-sur-Aube Brienne-le-Château – Bar-sur-Aube 26.9 17 LXIV...
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    Sylvain-Charles, comte Valée (17 December 1773 – 16 August 1846), born in Brienne-le-Château, was a Marshal of France. Upon the outbreak of the French Revolution...
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    January 1814 in Brienne-le-Château) was a French admiral and general. Serving in the Napoleonic Wars, he was killed at the Battle of Brienne. Son of a timber...
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    some 30 km west by north-west of Chaumont and 25 km south-east of Brienne-le-Château. Access to the commune is by the D619 road from Ailleville in the...
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  • children to France, where the family had properties in Champagne, around Brienne-le-Chateau. The impoverished family was not able to provide better, and Isabella...
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    Napoleon (redirect from Le petit caporal)
    spelling was poor. In May, he transferred to the military academy at Brienne-le-Château where he was routinely bullied by his peers for his accent, birthplace...
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  • Eure; the other is Brionne in Creuse. It may also come from de Brienne from Brienne-le-Château. Another origin of the surname is as a patronymic, being borne...
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  • Filming was at the end of 2014 and in January 2015 on the aérodrome de Brienne-le-Château near Troyes. The first series consists of 10 episodes including three...
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    entrusted with his education, and sent him to the military school of Brienne-le-Château. There, he taught mathematics, and among his pupils was the young...
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    in north-central France. The commune is bordered to the north by Brienne-le-Château in southern Champagne, and is traversed by the river Aube. It lies...
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    Droupt-Saint-Basle Castle Barberey-Saint-Sulpice Castle Brienne-le-Château Castle Napoleon Museum (Brienne-le-Château) Museum Hugues de Payens (Payns) Resistance...
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    Moët first met Napoleon Bonaparte in 1782 at the military academy of Brienne-le-Château when Moët was soliciting orders for his family champagne firm. The...
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    Bar-sur-Seine LFFR Bar-sur-Seine Aerodrome Restricted Brienne-le-Château LFFN Brienne-le-Château Airport Public Juvancourt LFQX Juvancourt Aerodrome Restricted...
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    November 1960 in Paris) is a French politician. He is the mayor of Brienne-le-Château and a former member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to...
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    was a classmate of Napoleon Bonaparte at the military academy at Brienne-le-Château. A moderate supporter of the 1789 French Revolution, de Jessaint was...
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    Haute-Marne: Auberive Côte-d'Or: Montigny-sur-Aube Aube: Bar-sur-Aube, Brienne-le-Château, Ramerupt, Arcis-sur-Aube Marne: Anglure The Albian Age in the Cretaceous...
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    Charny in Lirey between about 1355 and 1418, before its transfer to the Château de Montfort (Cote-d'Or), then to Chambéry, then to Turin. Communes of the...
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    pilgrimage. Communes of the Aube department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises...
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    Bar-sur-Seine Château de Bligny, in Bligny Château de Bouilly, in Bouilly Château de Bréviandes, in Bréviandes Château de Brienne, in Brienne-le-Château Château de...
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    School of Brienne-le-Château; Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), chemist, physician, microbiologist. René Garoz, resistance fighter originally from Lons-le-Saunier...
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    Musée de l'air et de l'espace in Paris-Le Bourget Airport. Currently stored on an old airbase in Brienne-le-Château, Aube department On display SP-2H 201...
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    Maizières-lès-Brienne (French pronunciation: [mɛzjɛʁ bʁijɛn], literally Maizières near Brienne) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central...
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