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    Villers-Cotterêts (pronounced [vilɛʁ kɔt(ə)ʁɛ]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, France. It is notable as the signing-place in...
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  • The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (French: Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts) is an extensive piece of reform legislation signed into law by Francis I of...
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  • Battle of Villers-Cotterêts may refer to: Battle of Villers-Cotterêts (1815), a minor battle between Prussians and the French during the Waterloo Campaign...
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    1st Army had attempted to trap British rearguards at Crépy and Villers-Cotterêts (Villers) but they had slipped away. Air reconnaissance revealed that British...
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    Élisabeth Labouret in Villers-Cotterêts. According to his French biographer Claude Ribbe, it is in the courtyard of Château de Villers-Cotterêts that the young...
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    Château de Villers-Cotterêts (pronounced [ʃɑto d(ə) vilɛʁ kɔt(ə)ʁɛ]) is a historic French château located in the town of Villers-Cotterêts in the Aisne...
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    The canton of Villers-Cotterêts is an administrative division in northern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March...
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    Corps (Mouton's) were at Villers-Cotterêts. The III and IV Corps were at Soissons. Grouchy's headquarters were at Villers-Cotterêts. General Pirch II having...
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    Alexandre Dumas Museum (French: Musée Alexandre Dumas) opened in 1905 in Villers-Cotterêts in the commune of Aisne, France, where Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la...
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    Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France. He had two older sisters...
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    the forest of Compiègne, northeast of Paris, between the cities of Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne. The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics...
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  • urgent reason to claim she was dead at the moment of his marriage in Villers-Cotterêts, France, in 1792, since he would have been required to consult her...
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    In 1539, in his castle in Villers-Cotterêts, Francis signed the important edict known as Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which, among other reforms...
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    years of state-building, legislative acts (like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts), and internal conflicts. The attempts of the Valois Dynasty to reform...
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    French. In 1539 the French language was imposed by the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts. It required Latin be replaced in judgements and official acts and...
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    as official was the Aosta Valley in 1536, while the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (1539) named French the language of law in the Kingdom of France....
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  • The Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in the commune of Villers-Cotterêts, France from 1998 until 2008....
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    After the wedding Mary and Francis went first to the Chateau of Villers-Cotterêts. In Paris, the Great Hall or Grand' Salon was redecorated with designs...
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    particularly the area around Villers-Cotterêts and the village of Longpont, after the suspects robbed a petrol station near Villers-Cotterêts, then reportedly abandoned...
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    nevertheless evolved or indeed disappeared, such as the andouillettes of Villers-Cotterêts which received a mention in the posthumously published Culinary Dictionary...
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  • Génération Nation in Soissons. He was elected municipal councilor of Villers-Cotterêts in 2014 and appointed deputy mayor in 2020. In 2022, he was elected...
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    1557 and a ceremony that took place on 4 June 1557 at the Château de Villers-Cotterêts. They had a son, named Anne after his grandfather, born by late September...
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    pronunciation and vocabulary. Before the signature of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539, French was not standardised as an administrative language...
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  • Francophonie History Phonological history Oaths of Strasbourg Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Anglo-Norman Grammar Adverbs Articles and determiners Pronouns (personal)...
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    northern area of Aisne. Volkswagen Group France has headquarters in Villers-Cotterêts. The department is a mixture of rural areas and working-class towns...
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  • Villers-Cotterêts, in the Aisne département Villers-devant-Dun, in the Meuse département Villers-devant-le-Thour, in the Ardennes département Villers-devant-Mouzon...
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    art and music. The prevailing style was classical. The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts was signed into law by Francis I in 1539. Largely the work of Chancellor...
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    Francophonie History Phonological history Oaths of Strasbourg Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Anglo-Norman Grammar Adverbs Articles and determiners Pronouns (personal)...
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    complying with the Toubon law. Language policy in France Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Académie française Charter of the French Language, Quebec Office québécois...
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    Union Law French Old Frankish Old French Old Occitan Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Only languages with at least 50,000 speakers are shown. "Europeans...
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