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    Oxmo Puccino, and his first documentaries, 365 jours à Clichy-Montfermeil [fr] (365 days in Clichy-Montfermeil), filmed after the 2005 French riots; Go...
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    209 p. :ill. Stéphanie Samson, Le transfert de l’hôpital Beaujon à Clichy, mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Paris I, 1996, 200 p. :ill. Florence Trystam...
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    injuries). A trial known as the Clichy Affair ensued, in which two of the three anarchists were sentenced to prison terms. In addition to these events...
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    celebration (fête de la Fédération), now known as Bastille Day, was held on the Champ de Mars, exactly one year after the storming of the prison. The following...
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    burning of cars and public buildings. The unrest started on 27 October at Clichy-sous-Bois, where police were investigating a reported break-in at a building...
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    were made in Paris and the rest in the northwestern suburbs of Paris in Clichy and Asnières. Through these works the audience can see a transition in his...
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  • Jacques Mesrine (category People from Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine)
    to the dismay of his family. In 1955, at age 19, he married Lydia De Souza in Clichy; the couple divorced a year later. Drafted into the French Army, he...
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    The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of...
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    known as the "Rue de Paris"; it was used by the royal executioner, nicknamed "Monsieur de Paris". A few portions of the old prison, which was in use from...
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    Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) company over its management. PLM did not like the fact that Mazas prison was being built...
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    while his main residence was at Clichy, Paris. In 1941 Burgess was taken prisoner by the Nazis and held in a prison camp Frontstalag 142 in Besançon...
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    was often used as a royal sanctuary in times of trouble, and later as a prison and military headquarters. The chapel was listed as an historic monument...
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    Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse...
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    infirmary of the prison, where Robespierre was held after his suicide attempt and before his trial and execution. The Rue de Paris Prison cells The Chapel...
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    de Presbourg, Rue de Tilsitt, Avenue de Wagram, Boulevard de Courcelles, Boulevard des Batignolles, Clichy, Boulevard de Rochechouart, Boulevard de la...
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    the army advanced toward Parc Monceau and Place Clichy, while General Félix Douay occupied the Place de l'Étoile and General Clichant occupied the Gare...
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    as shock troops in the "banlieues", and a police "raid" on the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in October 2005 led to two boys being electrocuted in a power...
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    the public in 1914, and all prison functions in the building stopped in 1934. Grand lateral stairway in 1825 The Cour de May entrance of the Palace in...
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    clinic in Clichy as well as other clinics and pharmaceutical companies. In his spare time he worked on his first novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey...
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    commoner, Coignard, who turned it into a maison de santé — a kind of convalescent home that also served as a prison for those fortunate enough to be able to...
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    donjon of the Château de Vincennes, a former royal residence and then a prison, is now open to public. A hunting party in the Bois de Vincennes in the 15th...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France...
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    Revolution include one of the original stones of the Bastille prison, carved into a replica of the prison. Eighty-three of these miniature Bastilles were carved...
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  • Prostitution in Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The novelist also included elements of Valtesse de La Bigne and Delphine de Lizy. In Quiet Days in Clichy, the writer Henry Miller recounts his bohemian...
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    (After Salis's death a third Le Chat Noir was opened at 68, Boulevard de Clichy in 1907.) Salis acted as impresario and (along with cabaret singer Aristide...
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    Henri Désiré Landru (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Landru's wife lived for most of the war in the northwestern Paris suburb of Clichy under the false name "Frémyet" (one of Landru's aliases) in an apartment...
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    Conciergerie (category Defunct prisons in Paris)
    Lodge) is a former courthouse and prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité, below the Palais de Justice. It was originally part...
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  • (until 1996) Overkill Motorcycle Club Apocalypse Riders Buccaneers Club de Clichy Motorcycle Club Road Cat's Motorcycle Club Blood Red Section Motorcycle...
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    philosophy. At one point Gavarni was imprisoned for debt in the debtors' prison of Clichy. After his release, he published his experiences in a work called L'Argent...
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    Fontainebleau (/ˈfɒntɪnbloʊ/ FON-tin-bloh, US also /-bluː/ -⁠bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast...
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