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    l'aquilon, Sans doute, ô ciel ! s'abat sur ma demeure. Le mur fléchit sous le noir bataillon. La maison crie et chancelle penchée, Et l'on dirait que...
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  • Translators of Saint-Nazaire Le Prix Laure Bataillon Prix Laure Bataillon, Centre national du livre Prix littéraire "Guille-Bataillon, Laure (1928-1990)". Idref...
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    The Battalions of Light Infantry of Africa (French: Bataillons d'Infanterie Légère d'Afrique or BILA), better known under the acronym Bat' d'Af', were...
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    from the French districts of the New Hebrides: together they formed the Bataillon du Pacifique. The Caledonians formed two of the companies, and the Polynesians...
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    utilisés pour les travaux de génie. AFGG 8,2 1933, p. 306. AFGG 8,2,2 1932, p. 525. "bataillons de tirailleurs malgaches: 1er bataillon : J.M.O. (suite)...
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    Demi-Brigade (4e Demi-brigade de Chasseurs) 1er Bataillon de Chasseurs - 2e Bataillon de Chasseurs - 10e Bataillon de Chasseurs - 65e Régiment d'Infanterie -...
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    antiaérienne 88e bataillon du génie Régiment du train divisionnaire 291e compagnie de transport 91/84e compagnie de transmissions 11e GERD 15e bataillon médical...
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    together while taking steps to end the war, much to the anger of the Pieds-Noirs (ethnic Europeans born in Algeria) and the armed forces. He granted independence...
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     37. ISBN 1-85532-430-X. Louis Noir, Achille Faure, 1867, Campagne du Mexique: Mexico (souvenirs d'un zouave), p. 135 Le moniteur de l'armée: 1863 Bibliography...
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    Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011. "Le Bataillon d'infanterie de marine et du Pacifique (BIMP)". Archived from the original...
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    First World War. He was promoted to captain in 1890 and major (chef de bataillon) in 1900. In March 1904, by then serving in the 104th Infantry, he was...
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    French North Africa were a metropolitan light infantry unit — the 1er bataillon de tirailleurs de Vincennes which disembarked in Algiers in early 1840...
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    46 "Les Bataillons d' Infanterie Legere d'Afrique et leurs insignes, 1832–1972", Militaria Magazine Septembre 1994 Jacques Sicard, pages 46–47 "Les Bataillons...
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    français (in French). France-Empire. "Képis noirs et bérets rouges – Sahara 1957 (Bataille de Timimoun), par le général Massu" (in French). 2022-11-21. Retrieved...
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  • 1963[permanent dead link] (in French) Fusillade à Bab-el-Oued dirigée sur le 2e bataillon du 73e RIMa au poste de zouaves, ECPAD 36°47′26.53″N 3°2′59.03″E /...
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    22nd Bataillon de marche Nord Africain 2nd Brigade (4th, 5th and 11th Bataillon de Marche) 4th Brigade (21st, 24th Bataillon de Marche and Bataillon d'Infanterie...
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  • Champs-Élysées, Le Masque (collection) [fr] (No.27) 1929 : Le Détective bizarre, Fayard 1929 : L'Héritage de Gengis Khan, Fayard 1929 : Le Soleil noir, Lecture...
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  • In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in the Army as appellative for a chef de bataillon or a chef d'escadron (roughly equivalent...
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    October 2012 Bennett, p. 13. Bennett, pp. 13–18. Hastings, Max, p. 74 "Le bataillon d'infanterie de marine et du Pacifique". Museum of the Order of the Liberation...
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    beginning of the 20th century, was re-established on Mont Lassois' slopes: pinot noir and chardonnay grapes for the production of crémant du Châtillonnais. Mont...
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  • Thumbnail for Louis Joseph Victor Jullien de Bidon
    and then adjutant general on 1 Mary 1792, adjutant general and chef de bataillon on 10 pluviôse year II, and adjudant-général chef de brigade on 25 prairial...
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    Alphonse Juin (category Pieds-noirs)
    Moroccan troops and sent to the Western Front in France. Juin joined Chef de Bataillon Joseph-François Poeymirau's 2e Régiment des Chasseurs Indigènes as a lieutenant...
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  • 1944–1945, particularly at the Roc Noir (Little-Saint-Bernard pass) and Mont-Cenis, between FTP, 13th BCA (Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins) and German troops...
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    exclusively French or people of French descent born in French Algeria (pieds-noirs), a policy which continued until the final dissolution of these regiments...
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  • regiment became the 501st Tank Battalion Group (French: 501e Groupe de bataillons de chars, 501e GBC). 1940 : dissolution of GBC 1940 : 1st Tank company...
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    during three months, then was assigned the preliminary rank of Chef de bataillon (major) at a directorate.: 33  In 1944, after paratrooper training by...
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    and Le domino noir by Auber, Le brasseur de Preston by Adam, La fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti, and Zanetta, Les diamants de la couronne, Le duc...
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    Tananarive One company of the 1er RMM at Mevatanana One company of the Bataillon de tirailleurs malgaches (BTM – Malagasy Tirailleurs Battalion) at Fianarantsoa...
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    Flammarion, Paris, 1946. Malvina ou le Bataillon de Napoléon II, novel, Éditions de la Table Ronde, Paris, 1946. Le Narthex, novel, Flammarion, Paris,...
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    Pierre Blanchar (category Pieds-noirs)
    La Liberation de Paris (1944) Pastoral Symphony (1946) Patrie (1946) Le Bataillon du ciel (1947) After Love (1948) Doctor Laennec (1949) The Cupid Club...
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