waterfront near Fort St. Louis. Mount Faron (584 metres (1,916 feet)) dominates the city of Toulon. The top can be reached by cable car from Toulon or by a narrow...
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the port of Toulon to the British navy. Toulon hoisted the royal flag, the fleur de lys, and d'Imbert declared the eight-year-old Louis XVII King of...
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The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean...
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The Diocese of Fréjus–Toulon (Latin: Dioecesis Foroiuliensis–Tolonensis; French: Diocèse de Fréjus–Toulon) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in...
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The siege of Toulon took place between 29 July to 21 August 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when a combined Savoyard-Imperial army supported...
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1811 at Toulon) – Renamed Royal Louis April 1814, renamed Impérial March 1815, renamed Royal Louis July 1815, condemned 31 March 1825 at Toulon. Montebello...
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in Toulon on 24 September. Saint Louis became the squadron flagship on 1 October and retained that duty until 24 February 1904. She transported Louis André...
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Francis Barrallier (redirect from Francis Louis Barrallier)
Francis Louis Barrallier (19 October 1773 – 11 June 1853) was a French-born explorer of Australia. Francis Barrallier was born in Toulon, France, on 19...
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France. The fort was commissioned in 1513 by King Louis XII at the request of the bishop of Toulon and of the Senechal of Provence. It was placed on the...
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Toulon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Seds de Toulon; Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Toulon), also known as Sainte-Marie-Majeure, is a Catholic...
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Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death...
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Coulomb (1654-1717). Archives Nationales, série C/7/74, dossiers Coulomb. Archives départementales du Var, Parish Register St.Louis, Toulon 7 E 145/40 v t e...
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Le Mourillon (category Toulon)
next to a 16th-century fort, Fort Saint Louis, which was reconstructed by Vauban. In the 1970s the city of Toulon built a series of sheltered sandy beaches...
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Louis-Charles Barrallier): Poursuivante, (launched 16 November 1844 at Toulon) – deleted 31 December 1864. Zénobie, (launched 29 July 1847 at Toulon)...
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Championship winners (2): 2018, 2019 "Louis Carbonel Profile". Itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2018. France profile at FFR Toulon profile L'Équipe profile v t...
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Saint-Tropez (redirect from St. Tropez)
Archived from the original on 8 November 2011. "Transfers from Nice and Toulon to St.Tropez, France". Archived from the original on 1 December 2011. Retrieved...
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at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterranean fleet. The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV...
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Augustin Robespierre (category Executed regicides of Louis XVI)
Maximilien had won a scholarship from the Abbey of St. Vaast to pay for his studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and had been such an outstanding student...
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sources place the western boundary further west around Saint-Tropez or even Toulon. The coast is entirely within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (redirect from Abbey of St.-Denis)
following the restoration of the monarchy, Louis XVIII had the remains of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette brought to St. Denis. The body of the Dauphin, who...
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of the 4th Ardèche Battalion. In this capacity he served in the Siege of Toulon, where he captured the British general Charles O'Hara. In May 1794, at the...
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Toulon" (in French). Rugbyrama.fr. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020. "Newcastle Falcons sign experienced South African scrum-half Louis...
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The following four years, De Tonti was a midshipman at Marseilles and Toulon and embarked on seven tours at sea, four of which were on warships and three...
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Gulf of Lion (redirect from Cape St. Sebastian)
France, extending from Begur in the west to Toulon in the east. The chief port on the gulf is Marseille. Toulon is another important port. The fishing industry...
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Napoleon (section Siege of Toulon)
Friedland 9 Jena 8 Austerlitz 7 Marengo 6 Cairo 5 Malta 4 Arcole 3 Paris 2 Toulon 1 Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 –...
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lost with all hands in bad weather while returning to her home port of Toulon in January 1968. Minerve was one of four submarines lost to unknown causes...
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six hundred men and a small navy. Inconstant left Toulon on 24 April 1814 to carry Napoleon from St Tropez to Elba, but at Napoleon's insistence, that...
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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (category Burials at St Paul's Cathedral)
1798, Nelson hoisted his flag and sailed to join Earl St Vincent. St Vincent sent him on to Toulon with a small force to reconnoitre French activities....
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Paul Barras (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
period, he made the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Siege of Toulon (his later clash with Napoleon made him downplay the latter's abilities...
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1923. Richter, Charles de (1955). Le Masque de fer. Comedy in one act. Toulon. Vigny, Alfred de, (1821). La Prison, in Poèmes antiques et modernes (1826)...
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