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    Noirmoutier (also French: Île de Noirmoutier, pronounced [nwaʁmutje]; Breton: Nervouster, Nermouster) is a tidal island off the Atlantic coast of France...
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    Noirmoutier-en-l'Île (French pronunciation: [nwaʁmutje ɑ̃ l‿il]), commonly referred to as Noirmoutier, is a commune located in the northern part of the...
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    The Noirmoutier Bridge (French: Pont de Noirmoutier) is a bridge located on the west coast of France in the department of Vendée, built in the early 1970s...
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  • Ermentar of Noirmoutier, also called Ermentarius Tornusiensis (died mid-860s), was a monk and historian of the abbey of Saint-Philibert de Tournus. He...
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    The Capture of Noirmoutier took place on 4 July 1674 when a fleet under Cornelis Tromp captured, and occupied the island of Noirmoutier. Following the...
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  • The Château de Noirmoutier is a castle on the Île de Noirmoutier in the Vendée département of France. It dominates the town of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île with...
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    The Hôtel de Noirmoutier is an hôtel particulier in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built in 1723. It has been listed by the French Ministry...
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    The Battle of Noirmoutier was a confrontation in the War in the Vendée which took place on 3 January 1794 between the Republicans and the Vendeans for...
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    Saint-Philibert de Noirmoutier Abbey is a monastery founded in 674 on Noirmoutier by Philibert de Tournus, who died there on August 20, 684. Philibert...
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    The First Battle of Noirmoutier took place on 12 October 1793 as part of the war in the Vendée. The Vendéens under François de Charette were victorious...
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    ɡwa]) or Gôa is a causeway between Beauvoir-sur-Mer and the island of Noirmoutier, in Vendée on the Atlantic coast of France. The causeway is 4.125 kilometres...
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    of Saint Euphrasia, born as Rose Virginie Pelletier (31 July 1796 in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île – 24 April 1868 in Angers), was a French religious sister. She...
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    676, Philibert decided to found a new monastery on the island of Her (Noirmoutier) with the agreement of the bishop Ansoald who granted him some land....
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    advantage of the Frankish civil wars. Large raids took place in Antwerp and Noirmoutier in 836, in Rouen (on the Seine) in 841 and in Quentovic and Nantes in...
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    The monks had fled Viking raids on Noirmoutier, and had previously stopped at Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu. Noirmoutier was the location of the first recorded...
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    de Fromentine) is the maritime passage that separates the island of Noirmoutier from the mainland, connecting the south of the Bay of Bourgneuf (or "Bay...
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    Loire-Atlantique Île Dumet Les Évens Vendée Les Chiens Perrins Île de Noirmoutier Île du Pilier Île d'Yeu Île d'Aix Fort Boyard Fort Enet Île Madame Île...
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    Varda owned a home in Paris and another property with an old mill on the Noirmoutier Island in Vendée, where the shots of Demy on a beach in Jacquot de Nantes...
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    Afterwards d'Elbée was transported first to Beaupréau, then the island of Noirmoutier. Three months later, the Republicans took control of the island and brought...
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    Beaune Semblançay, Viscountess of Tours, Baroness de Sauve, Marquise de Noirmoutier (26 October 1551 – 30 September 1617) was a French noblewoman and a mistress...
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  • on a grand scale. In that year, Danes established a lasting base on Noirmoutier island, a central spot for the European salt trade at the time, and poured...
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    Loire estuary) to Beauvoir-sur-Mer and is enclosed by the island of Noirmoutier up to the île du Pilier. It thus includes the south coast of the Pays...
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    351 km (2,082 mi)-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the Champs-Élysées...
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  • founded the cadet branches of the marquises de Royan and the ducs de Noirmoutier, respectively. Villari 1911. Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). Emile Bourgeois...
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  • Gois, a natural, periodically flooded passage leading to the island of Noirmoutier in France Góis, a town and municipality in Portugal Gois (moth), a genus...
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    Bay of Bourgneuf, and the île de Noirmoutier. Marais poitevin "Marais Breton, Baie de Bourgneuf, Ile de Noirmoutier et Forêt de Monts". Ramsar Sites Information...
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    2023-07-06. "Le parc en bref". Éoliennes en Mer des Îles d'Yeu et de Noirmoutier (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-06. "Parc éolien Centre-Manche 1 : les...
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    in the Vendée region of France. It is located opposite the island of Noirmoutier and is the main way to "l'Ile d'Yeu". The name Fromentine seems to be...
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  • Alexandre Couillon (born December 9, 1975) is a French chef based in Noirmoutier. Featured in the 2018 Netflix documentary series Chef's Table: France...
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    Bourgneuf, links Beauvoir-sur-Mer on the mainland to Barbâtre on the île de Noirmoutier. Another reference in terms of regional seismicity is the 1972 earthquake...
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