The Pont National was a swing bridge across the river Penfeld in Brest, France. It opened in 1861 and linked rue de Siam to Recouvrance, near the Tour...
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48.384381; -4.496541 The Pont de Recouvrance (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ də ʁəkuvʁɑ̃s]) is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river...
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– Pont National (swing-bridge) built. 1865 – Paris–Brest railway begins operating. 1876 – Population: 66,828. 1882 – Société de géographie de Brest founded...
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Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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Landerneau (redirect from Pont de Rohan)
divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, 22 km (14 mi) east of Brest. The name is from Lan Terneo and can mean "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan...
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Penfeld (category Geography of Brest, France)
the 15th-century Château de Brest. Pont de l'Harteloire Pont National — Pont de Recouvrance Recouvrance Arsenal de Brest The d was added in the 17th century...
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest is the main art museum in the city of Brest, Brittany, France, housing French and Italian old masters as well as more...
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nationale des ponts et chaussées; lit. 'National School of Bridges and Roads'; or ENPC, also nicknamed Ponts (formerly known as École des Ponts ParisTech)...
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Mines-Télécom, it had three campuses: Plouzané, in the Technopôle Brest-Iroise, near Brest (France); Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes (France); SUPAERO campus...
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ships and maritime traditions and history. The Musée national de la Marine has a large annex in Brest and a submarine is opened to visitors in Lorient. In...
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The Château de Brest (Breton: Kastell Brest) is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the...
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Cédric Liabeuf (category ES Uzès Pont du Gard players)
Le Mans, Brest, Guingamp and Vannes. He also played lower-division football for Auxerre B, Romorantin, Colmar, Uzès Pont du Gard, Bagnols Pont, and Uchaud...
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IMT Atlantique (category Education in Brest, France)
(Brest) Image and Data Processing (Brest) Languages and International Culture (Brest) The Logic of Practices, Social and Information Sciences (Brest)...
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Finistère on the River Aulne and the Canal de Nantes à Brest, mid-way between Quimper to the south and Brest to the north. To the west the Menez-Hom hills separate...
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Navy. She took part in the battles of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory...
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national parks of France are a system of eleven national parks throughout metropolitan France and its overseas departments, coordinated by National Parks...
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Plounéventer (being restored) Château du Pérennou, at Plomelin Château de Pont-L'Abbé, at Pont-l'Abbé Château de Quimerc'h (destroyed), at Bannalec Château de La...
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The Brest tramway (French: Tramway de Brest, Breton: Tramgarr Brest) located in Brest, Brittany, France consists of a 28-stop, two-branch, 14.3-kilometre...
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University of Western Brittany (redirect from University of brest)
Bretagne-Occidentale; UBO) is a French university, located in Brest, in the Academy of Rennes. On a national scale, in terms of graduate employability, the university...
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Route nationale 165 (category Routes nationales in France)
towns of Brest and Nantes. It is also numbered European Route 60. The majority of the route is autoroute standard. The road commences at Brest docks passing...
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Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Champigneulles, Épernay, Schiltigheim, Bagnols Pont, Union Saint-Jean, Balma, Rodez (res), Aigues-Mortes, Longueau, Lambres-lez-Douai...
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the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort (Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort), and Toulon. The permanent...
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Brest Business School, also called ESC Bretagne Brest, France, is a French business School in the city of Brest in western France. Founded in 1962, Brest...
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Rankings of universities in France (section French Universities and Grandes écoles in national rankings)
There is no national rankings of universities and Grandes écoles in France, but only rankings based on the Academic major, the completion and graduation...
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the Costour Valley at Le Relecq-Kerhuon near Brest. He later moved on to take over the Powder mill at Pont-de-Buis, but returned in 1905 to the "Moulin-Blanc"...
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Charles Terront (section Paris–Brest–Paris cycle race)
Europe and the United States. In September 1891 he won the first Paris–Brest–Paris cycle race, which at 1,196 kilometres (743 mi) was more than double...
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École navale (category Education in Brest, France)
Brest. The academy was founded in 1830, by order of King Louis-Philippe. Originally the academy was based on ships, anchored in the harbour of Brest,...
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common fixtures in military harbors and naval bases, such as Toulon or Brest, because they provided free labor. During the Jacobin period of the French...
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The École nationale d'ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB) is a French grande école leading to the French “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” under the authority of the French...
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three-decker French ship of the line, built at Brest, which became famous as the flagship of the Brest Fleet during the American War of Independence....
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