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    Fontenay-le-Comte (IPA: [fɔ̃tənɛ lə kɔ̃t]; Poitevin: Funtenaes or Fintenè) is a commune and subprefecture in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire...
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  • The canton of Fontenay-le-Comte is an administrative division of the Vendée department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    The Battles of Fontenay-le-Comte were fought on 16 May 1793 and on 25 May 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between forces of the French Republic...
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  • department of Val-d'Oise Fontenay-le-Comte, in the department of Vendée Fontenay-le-Fleury, in the department of Yvelines Fontenay-le-Marmion, in the department...
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    The arrondissement of Fontenay-le-Comte is an arrondissement of France in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 105 communes. Its...
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    succession of victories in the spring and summer of 1793. The towns of Fontenay-le-Comte, Thouars, Saumur and Angers were briefly overrun, but the Vendeans...
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    Loudun – Chinon Poitiers – Chauvigny – Le Blanc – Châteauroux Niort – Fontenay-le-Comte La Rochelle – Fontenay-le-Comte SNCF Class Z 7300 SNCF Class Z 21500...
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    The Castle of Terre Neuve is an historic château in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France. It has been listed as an official historical...
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    Vendée (redirect from Le Vendée)
    ISBN 9780415673969. Nationale, Assemblée. "Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français". Assemblée nationale. Wikimedia Commons...
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    François Viète (category People from Fontenay-le-Comte)
    Fontenay-le-Comte in present-day Vendée. His grandfather was a merchant from La Rochelle. His father, Etienne Viète, was an attorney in Fontenay-le-Comte...
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  • Djibril Konaté (category Vendée Fontenay Foot players)
    semi-professional CFA group D side Fontenay-le-Comte. Konaté played a major role in the next two seasons for Fontenay, attracting interest from higher division...
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    war in Vendée, he served first under Maurice d'Elbée, and fought at Fontenay-le-Comte, Cholet and Saumur, and distinguished himself at the battles of Beaupréau...
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    departments and towns: Deux-Sèvres: Saint-Paul-en-Gâtine Vendée: Mervent, Fontenay-le-Comte, Velluire, L'Île-d'Elle Charente-Maritime Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau...
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    needed] He was present at the taking of Bressuire, Thouars, and of Fontenay-le-Comte - where he was wounded but recovered. Dissensions among their leaders...
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    leaders. Lescure fought at Thouars in May 1793. At the Battle of Fontenay-le-Comte, he was the first to enter the city and free the Royalist prisoners...
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  • Poitou-Charentes operated by ASF. It connects Nantes to Niort via Fontenay-le-Comte. The motorway has a junction with the A10 at Niort which gives access...
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    back to La Châtaigneraie on 14 May, the Vendéens were defeated in Fontenay-le-Comte by General Alexis Chalbos on 16 May. Cathelineau retaliated by defeating...
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  • Anthony Gauvin (category Vendée Fontenay Foot players)
    Saint-Étienne, Nice, Lorient, Le Havre, Brest and Fontenay-le-Comte. He is currently the manager of Fontenay-le-Comte, a position he has held since 2008...
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    Vendée Fontenay Foot is a French football club based in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée. It was founded in 1991 in a merger of two teams, the Stade Athlétique...
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    is no direct evidence to support this theory. By 1520, he was at Fontenay-le-Comte in Poitou where he became friends with Pierre Lamy, a fellow Franciscan...
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    Jamy Gourmaud (category People from Fontenay-le-Comte)
    produced by the channel France 3 from 1993 until 2014. He was born in Fontenay-le-Comte and graduated from the Institut Pratique de Journalisme in 1988. A...
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    Bressuire on 3 May, in the Battle of Fontenay-le-Comte on 25 May and in the Battle of Saumur on 9 June. At Fontenay he was famous for his contempt for danger...
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    commune of Mouilleron-Saint-Germain. It is in the arrondissement of Fontenay-le-Comte. It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who...
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    La Roche-sur-Yon by Edmund, earl of Cambridge. He died in 1369 at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he had gone to reside, and was buried at Poitiers. Arms "Gules...
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  • René François Lecomte (category People from Fontenay-le-Comte)
    (French pronunciation: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ləkɔ̃t]; born 14 May 1764 in Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée), died on 15 October 1793 in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres)), was...
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    with many other languages and dialects, since he was educated in Fontenay-le-Comte. François Villon spoke some Poitevin as well. The earliest attested...
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    1964). "Les revenus des seigneurs de Rays au Moyen Âge". La revue du Bas-Poitou et des provinces de l'Ouest (in French) (2). Fontenay-le-Comte: Société...
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    Augustin Daniel Belliard, comte Belliard et de l'Empire (French pronunciation: [oɡystɛ̃ danjɛl bɛljaʁ]; 25 May 1769 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 28 January...
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    commune Rives-d'Autise. Oulmes is located on the D148 road between Fontenay-le-Comte (14 km to the north west)) and Niort (18 km to the south east), and...
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    Mathurin Jacques Brisson (category People from Fontenay-le-Comte)
    zoologist and natural philosopher. Brisson was born on 30 April 1723 at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée department of western France. His parents wished him...
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