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    was erected in 1924 where the Boulevard Henry Vasnier meets the Avenue du Général Giraud. The first stone was placed by Minister of War André Maginot, on...
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    1933, he flew south to Africa, where he reported to Général de brigade Henri Giraud on 11 July. Giraud sent him into the field as a liaison officer with...
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    the Infant Jesus, 1954 Place Raymond-Mondon Place du Général-Mangin Place du Général-de-Gaulle Place du Roi-George Allée verte de l'Avenue Foch Jardin des...
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    originally from Nancy, and of Elisabeth Giraud, from an old and notable Provençal family, whose father Louis Giraud, notary, had married Honorine Courmes...
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    Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in North Africa, Général d'Armée Henri Giraud. On 26 December, Giraud appointed him the commander of the Second Army, which...
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    Mitterrand to its south, the avenue du Général-Lemonnier to its west (thus named since 1957; formerly rue des Tuileries and Avenue Paul-Déroulède, converted...
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    government created in March 1941 the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives or CGQJ (Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs) with the task of implementing...
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    Hours with Daniel Boulud (Reality-TV), Daniel Boulud, Harry Shearer, Alain Giraud, Automatic Productions, 2006-06-07, retrieved 2023-11-10{{citation}}: CS1...
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    architect Jean-François Pierre Peyron (1744–1814), painter Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1752–1830), sculptor Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David (1755–1839), archeologist...
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    Les Invalides (redirect from Eglise du Dome)
    (1842–1934) Dominique-Marie Gauchet (1853–1931) Augustin Gérard (1857–1926) Henri Giraud (1879–1949) Émile Guépratte (1856–1939) Adolphe Guillaumat (1863–1940) Ferdinand-Alphonse...
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    floor of 48, Rue du Four, in Paris. The French Civil and Military High Command was the governmental body in Algiers headed by Henri Giraud following the...
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    by Charles Giraud, was directly across from the Grand Palais, and had a similar monumental entrance (both entrances were designed by Giraud). Both buildings...
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    Monnet, the chief advocate and first head of the General Planning Commission (Le Commissariat général du Plan). The Monnet Plan emphasized expansion, modernization...
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    Project] (in French). Conseil général de la Savoie. Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2015. "La ligne du temps ferroviaire en Pays...
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    Israeli musician Fabienne Égal, French announcer and television host Roland Giraud, French actor Macha Méril, French actress and writer Daniel Siboni, French...
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    and 1852. The first Gare Montparnasse opened on 10 September 1840 on avenue du Maine, and was the terminus of the new Paris-Versailles line on the left...
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    François Mitterrand (category Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite)
    with General Henri Giraud, a former POW who had escaped from a German prison and made his way across Germany back to the Allied forces. In 1943 Giraud was...
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    Farrar-Hockley, General Sir Anthony (1975). Goughie. London: Granada. ISBN 0246640596. Mondet, Arlette Estienne (2011). Le général J. B. E. Estienne...
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    périlleuse. éd. du Seuil, 2005 Éric Roussel, Pierre Brossolette, éd. Fayard, 2011 Sébastien Albertelli, Les Services secrets du général de Gaulle, le BCRA...
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    qui fut secrétaire général pour la Police est à Fresnes. Cela devait finir ainsi. Bien sûr, cela devait finir ainsi. Mais cela eût commencer ainsi. Seulement...
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    Grande-Salle during the late Middle Ages, reconstruction by Sébastien Charles Giraud [fr], 1878 de Parseval and Mazeau (2019), p. 2 Delon 2000. Fierro 1996,...
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    2008. Six deputies (Gérard Charasse, Paul Giacobbi, Annick Girardin, Joël Giraud, Dominique Orliac and Sylvia Pinel) and three senators (Jean-Michel Baylet...
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    Allied commanders were more impressed, the Free French in particular. General Henri Giraud was incredulous when he heard of Patton's dismissal by Eisenhower...
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    the 10th Winter Olympics held at Grenoble in 1968. It was named for Henri Giraud [fr] on 15 April 2000, in memory of the famous mountain pilot. The altiport...
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    his work, Lives of Game Animals Volume 4, Seton was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1928. In 1931, he...
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    Line. The Seventh Army (Général d'armée Henri Giraud), BEF, First Army (Général d'armée Georges Blanchard) and Ninth Army (Général d'armée André Corap) were...
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    les Boiffiers and Bellevue are separated from the rest of the city by the avenue de Saintonge; they consist mainly in low-rent housing (HLM) and suburban...
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  • set up in the Place du Général-de-Gaulle [fr], also known as the Grand'Place. On May 31, the last remaining resistance on the Avenue de Dunkerque in Lambersart...
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    same time as Saint-Quentin. The remains of the 9th French Army and General Giraud were taken prisoner by the Germans. From 27 April until 18 August 1944...
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    Toronto Star, October 20, 2013. Political parties - Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ) "Élections 2013 - Candidatures | Portail données...
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