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    Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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    Brest-Lambezellec Brest-L'Hermitage-Gouesnou Brest-Plouzané Brest-Recouvrance Brest-Saint-Marc Brest-Saint-Pierre Daoulas Guipavas Landerneau Lannilis Lesneven...
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    in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 2010 (in French) Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Brest Data from the Station at Saint Auban from 1981 to 2010 (in...
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    Claude-Youenn (2015). Slaves, Coffee and Mother-in-Law: from Brest to Saint-Domingue. Admiral Le Dall de Tromelin. Unpublished Colonial Correspondence 1769–1851...
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    schools: Édouard Branly, Pierre et Marie Curie, Jules Ferry, Camille Flammarion, Jean Jaurès, Louis Pasteur, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Combined preschools...
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    Jean de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Lycée polyvalent Pierre-Mendès-France, and Lycée professionnel Edoaurd Branly Private senior high schools: Lycée Saint-François...
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    War. In March 1781, while serving in Viceadmiral Pierre André de Suffren's fleet, he traveled from Brest to India, where the French engaged the British...
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    Paul Signac, Tamara de Lempicka, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Pierre Soulages and Piero Manzoni. The Museums of Fine Arts of Brest and Quimper offer similar...
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    Chantepie Canton of Rennes-4 (36,348 inhabitants) Canton of Rennes-5 (46,759 inhabitants), which includes parts of Rennes but also the commune of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande...
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    Boishardy, Pierre-Mathurin Mercier and Bonfils de Saint Loup. In Brittany, the Chouans were supported by many nobles: Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouërie...
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  • Morlaix (29), Vannes (56), Vitré (35), Brest (29)). - Land of Art and of History : Pays de Morlaix (22), Pays de Quimperlé (22). - Metropolis of Art and...
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    cathedral Houses in Saint-Malo Battle for Brest Jean-Marie Valentin Mont Saint-Michel Robert Surcouf Rothéneuf Shipwrecks of Saint Malo "Répertoire national...
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    Navy. She took part in the battles of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory...
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    Jardin botanique de Caen, a historic botanical garden Church of Saint-Pierre Church of Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux Church of Saint-Jean de Caen Mémorial pour...
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    Bernardin de Saint-PierreJourney to Mauritius, p. 15, at Google Books "Historians say fleur-de-lis has troubled history". "The Fleur-de-lis". Archived...
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     185–227. Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Brest Data from the Station at Millau from 1981 to 2010 (in French) Historique de l'Aveyron, SPLAF, in French Population...
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    Papegaud [fr], place where the plot of the novel Les Chouans by de Balzac unravels. Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Rillé. Originally a collegiate church of Augustinian...
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    common fixtures in military harbors and naval bases, such as Toulon or Brest, because they provided free labor. During the Jacobin period of the French...
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    "Décret n° 2014-229 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Corse-du-Sud". Retrieved 31 May 2017. "Jumelage Ajaccio –...
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    department of France. It is part of the Canton of Trois-Rivières and is divided into two communes: Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas. It is in the arrondissement...
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    Albert Vinçon; Pierre Norange; Manon Roland; Jean de Neyman; Jean Moulin, accommodate around 1,350 pupils each. Private colleges include: Saint-Louis (1,000...
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  • it ran about thirty candidates in the 1985 cantonal elections and won on average 4.2%. Results in the Brest area, however, had considerably declined. The...
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    northwestern France. Vitré, a sub-prefecture until 1926, is the seat of a canton. It has 18,603 inhabitants (2020). It lies on the edge of Brittany, near...
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    Île d'Yeu (redirect from He de Yeu)
    Strasbourg, Brest "Normales climatiques 1981-2010 : Île d'Yeu". www.lameteo.org. Retrieved 4 September 2022. "Données climatiques de la station de Beaucouzé"...
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    Belfort (category Communes of the Territoire de Belfort)
    Paris Opera. This had also been the start point for the inaugural Paris–Brest–Paris cycle-race the previous year. The newspaper's circulation dramatically...
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    arrondissements with the following cantons: Nice, cantons: Nice (2 cantons), Aspremont, La Brigue, Menton, Monaco, Roquebillière, Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée, Saorge...
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  • Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (7 November 1793 – 24 January 1875) was a French navigator famous for his circumnavigation of the globe on board La Favorite...
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    Patricia Adam (category People from Saint-Cloud)
    councillor of the Urban Community of Brest. In 1998, she was elected general council of the Canton of Brest-Saint-Marc when the general council of Finistère...
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    divided into three arrondissements: Foix, Pamiers, and Saint-Girons. It comprises 13 cantons, 21 intercommunalities, and 326 communes. In 2009 the Regional...
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    station is connected by trains to Guingamp station on the Paris-Montparnasse–Brest line. Blue and white striped-jumpers are immediately visible in the streets...
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