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    Loire, France. Valençay is situated in the Loire Valley. It sits at the end of a plateau. on a hillside overlooking the River Nahon. Valençay is part of Berry...
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    The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument in France to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives working to liberate...
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    Valençay (French: [valɑ̃sɛ]) is a cheese made in the province of Berry in central France. Its name is derived from the town of Valençay in the Indre department...
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    Château de Valençay is a château in the commune of Valençay, in the Indre department of France. It was a residence of the d'Estampes and Talleyrand-Périgord...
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    previous one. Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay (1579–1639), politician and military man. Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay (1589–1651), man of the Church, brother...
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  • Valençay (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sɛ] ) is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Loire Valley wine region in France, located in...
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    Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay (born c. 1585, Château de Valençay; died ? ) held the French honorific titles Lord of Valençay and Grand Marshal of the...
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  • de Valençay is a titular family name that may refer to: Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay Achille d'Étampes de Valençay The...
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  • The canton of Valençay is an administrative division of the Indre department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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    The Treaty of Valençay was a proposed peace agreement between France and Spain, signed on 8 December 1813, aimed at ending the Peninsular War. It was drafted...
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    Bonapartist régime and the expulsion of Napoleon's troops. The Treaty of Valençay recognized Ferdinand VII as the legitimate King of Spain. Spain had been...
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    Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay (6 February 1589, Château de Valençay – 8 April 1651, Paris) was Bishop of Chartres from June 1620 to November 1641, and...
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  • was the brother of Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay, Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay, and Jean d'Étampes de Valençay. He was made a Knight of Malta in 1606...
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    Marie Dorothée Louise de Talleyrand-Périgord (17 November 1862 – 17 July 1948) was a French aristocrat most notable for her salons and her role in European...
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    Lieutenant Sabourin is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département. List of SOE agents "Memorial:...
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    under the Bourbon Restoration Château de Valençay Talleyrand's orthopedic shoe, now in the Château de Valençay Inscription at the Hôtel de Saint-Florentin...
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    Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, 3rd duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (12 March 1811 – 21 March 1898) was a French aristocrat, soldier...
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  • of Cheverny, Cour-Cheverny, Montrichard, Oisly, Saint-Romain-sur-Cher, Valençay as well as vineyards that make wines under the Touraine AOC, Cremant de...
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    Santarém cheese Selles-sur-Cher cheese Snøfrisk Testouri Tulum cheese Valençay cheese Van herbed cheese Xynomizithra Xynotyro Ardagh Castle Cheese Ardsallagh...
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  • England, and is also on the "Roll of Honour" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre departément of France. Timeline of SOE's...
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    in France for six years at the Château de Valençay. Historian Charles Oman records that the choice of Valençay was a practical joke by Napoleon on his former...
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    Communauté de communes Cœur de Brenne Communauté de communes Écueillé-Valençay Communauté de communes Éguzon-Argenton-Vallée de la Creuse Communauté de...
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    because of "[Napoleon's] absurdly optimistic reliance on" the Treaty of Valençay (11 December 1813), during the last month of 1813 and the early months...
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    (1808–1813) Cortes of Cádiz (1810–1814) Constitution of Cádiz (1812) Treaty of Valençay (1813) Absolutist restoration Sexenio Absolutista (1814–1820) Trienio Liberal...
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    conseiller d'État, Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay, ordered construction of the family residence, Château de Valençay, in the Loire Valley on a hillside overlooking...
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  • 2009 on the Albert Embankment in London, depicting Violette Szabo. The Valençay SOE Memorial honours 91 male and 13 female SOE agents who lost their lives...
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    France, he is listed on the "Roll of Honour" on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay, in the Indre département of France. He is commemorated...
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    Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay. On 27 August 1939, after two days of packing, truck convoys began to leave...
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    resistance movements in occupied Europe, 1941 - 1945 France Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay, Indre, in the "Roll of Honour" of the 91 men and 13 women...
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    (1808–1813) Cortes of Cádiz (1810–1814) Constitution of Cádiz (1812) Treaty of Valençay (1813) Absolutist restoration Sexenio Absolutista (1814–1820) Trienio Liberal...
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