Sainte-Mère-Église. On 1 January 2019, the former communes of Carquebut and Ravenoville were merged into Sainte-Mère-Église. Sainte-Mère-Église lies in a...
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it was close to the river port at the Place de Grève. It was built on a slight hill, the Monceau Saint-Gervais, to be safe from the floods of the Seine...
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Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune...
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of the Saint-Lô prefecture, and the second-largest city in the region, after Caen. Its urban unit is composed of three communes (Cherbourg-en-Cotentin...
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breed off Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue once more. Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue organizes a regular Book Festival, "Ancres & Encres". Jean Raspail and Jean-Pierre Thiollet...
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to the bishop Palladius, was established (and later replaced by the église Saint-Pallais, which gives its name to the neighborhood), then a Benedictine...
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student of F. Rude. The parish of Saint-Lô has other Catholic buildings: Church of Saint Jean-Eudes located in Val Saint-Jean The chapel of the Memorial Hospital...
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Saint-Jean-d'Angély (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dɑ̃ʒeli] ; Saintongeais: Sént-Jhan-d'Anjhéli) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern...
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physical chemist and physiologist Saint Louis de Montfort, Roman Catholic priest Alcide d'Orbigny, botanist Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and novelist...
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Saint-Jean-de-la-Haize (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də la ɛz]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of...
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envisioned the Hôtel de Ville in 1583 The Hôtel de Ville and the Place de Grève, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, c. 1753 The Hôtel de Ville on the Verniquet atlas...
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The Chateau de Quineville is in the village, along with a church, the eglise Notre-Dame. Communes of the Manche department "Répertoire national des élus:...
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Saint-Jean-des-Champs (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ de ʃɑ̃]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of the...
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Jobourg, Omonville-la-Petite, Omonville-la-Rogue, Sainte-Croix-Hague, Saint-Germain-des-Vaux, Tonneville, Urville-Nacqueville, Vasteville and Vauville...
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Germany, since 1963 Saint Helier, Jersey, since 1982 Crediton, United Kingdom, since 1993 Avranches was the birthplace of: General Jean-Marie Valhubert (1764–1805)...
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Cambridge University Press. P. 59. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. v t e...
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north-western France. A market takes place in Saint-Pierre-Église every Wednesday. Saint-Pierre-Église is twinned with Twyford, United Kingdom. Communes...
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(PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.. "14 février 1952: une grève en Guadeloupe réprimée dans le sang, France24.com, 14 février 2009". "Le petit...
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Jean-Édouard Dargent, known as Yan' Dargent and in his later years Yann Dargent, was born in Saint-Servais on 15 October 1824 and died in Paris on 19 November...
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on Allied ships. Since February 2010, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Sainte-Mère-Église and Ravenoville have formed a grouping of "communes touristiques" [fr]....
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his father had built or repaired. He restored the organs at Saint-Jean-en-Grève and Saint Benoit, where he replaced his father's spring-chest with a slider-chest...
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Antoine Galiot Mandat de Grancey (category Knights of the Order of Saint Louis)
east of Touraine on 13 June 1727. Mandat de Grancey was baptised at Église Saint-Sulpice. He served in the First Company of Musketeers of the Garde ordinaire...
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department in southwestern France. Before 1928, it was known as Saint-Martin-de-Villeneuve. La Grève-sur-Mignon was the birthplace of: Lova Moor, dancer and singer...
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distinguished birth and fortune, and was for a long time afterwards the home, en villégiature, of many of the old noblesse. Thus the town was known as the...
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Years' War, bought the Roque of Jean d'Argouges. On the orders of Henry VI of England, in order to isolate Mont Saint-Michel, the last French bridgehead...
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"fondation-patrimoine, ÉGLISE SAINT JEAN-BAPTISTE DE SAINT JANS CAPPEL". Archived from the original on January 22, 2016. "L'église saint-pierre". Archived...
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Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agneaux...
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Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒak də ne.u], literally Saint-Jacques of Néhou) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in...
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Saint-Germain-d'Elle (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ dɛl]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of the...
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Saint-Cyr (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Communes of the Manche department...
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