municipalities of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to form the new municipality of Val de Bagnes. With an area of 282 km2 (108.88 sq mi), Bagnes used to be the...
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be kept on land in the bagnes, guarded halls, or other places which will be designated for their confinement." The name 'bagne' came from the Italian...
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there were the port bagnes (or maritime bagnes). Not all convicts in the penal system were sentenced to forced labor. The word "bagne" comes from the Italian...
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Val de Bagnes, also called the Vallée de Bagnes (German: Bangital or Baniental) is a valley located in the Entremont District in the Canton of Valais of...
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Val de Bagnes is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is named after the eponymous Val de Bagnes. On 1...
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Drance (redirect from Drance de Bagnes)
Confluence Ferret & Entremont Confluence Entremont & Bagnes Mouth Dranse de Bagnes The Dranse de Bagnes at Lac de Mauvoisin with fluvial sediment build-up...
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prisoners in pairs, held in chains aboard galley hulks (bagnes) moored in French harbours, until the bagnes rotted and sank. The prisoners were transferred to...
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Jean-Pierre Perraudin (1767–1858) explained erratic boulders in the Val de Bagnes in the Swiss canton of Valais as being due to glaciers previously extending...
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Verbier (category Bagnes)
conditions, and resort culture. Verbier is located in the municipality of Val de Bagnes in the Swiss canton of Valais. The village lies on a south oriented terrace...
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that an ice dam formed below a tongue of the Giétro Glacier in the Val de Bagnes, creating a lake. Despite engineer Ignaz Venetz's efforts to drain the growing...
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lines include the section from Montsinéry-Tonnegrande to the so-called bagne des Annamites, the section from Saint-Élie to the Saut du Tigre labor camp...
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continued until 1873, when the last bagne in France (as opposed to the bagnes relocated to French Guiana), the bagne of Toulon, closed definitively. In...
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Valais) and Italy (region of Aosta Valley). It lies between the valleys of Bagnes and Valpelline, on the main Alpine watershed. It overlooks the Fenêtre de...
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prisoners from the Bagne of Toulon in one of his early stories, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive...
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departure of prisoners for the Bagne of Toulon in Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive notes...
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(LAMMP) 2001 Rolly Bagnes (Lakas-CMD) Sonny Tapia (Lakas-CMD) Juan Unico (Lakas-CMD) 2004 Ramil Hernandez (Lakas-CMD) Rolly Bagnes (Lakas-CMD) Sonny Tapia...
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Brest Prison (redirect from Bagne de Brest)
The Brest Prison (French - bagne de Brest) was a 254m long prison in Brest, France. It was built between 1749 and 1751 by Antoine Choquet de Lindu, dominating...
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Persicula bagne is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. Faber, M.J. (2006). "The genera...
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Val de Bagnes to the Valpelline snow 3,242 10,637 Col de Seilon Val de Bagnes to the Val d'Hérémence snow 3,200 10,499 Col du Cret Val de Bagnes to the...
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Albert Londres (redirect from Au Bagne)
prisoners. It crushes them, that's all, and the pieces go where they may. (Au bagne, 1923) And the article continued: "I was taken to these places. I was taken...
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infrastructure of early Rochefort from 1766 was its bagne, a high-security penal colony involving hard labour. Bagnes were then common fixtures in military harbors...
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Luette is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located between the valleys of Bagnes and Hérens in the canton of Valais. It lies just south of Le Pleureur. Retrieved...
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December 1941. Retrieved 6 January 2022. Donet-Vincent, Danielle (2001). "Les "bagnes" des Indochinois en Guyane (1931-1963)". Persée. Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire...
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anniversary in 2025. In 1815, French prisoner Jean Valjean is released from the Bagne of Toulon after a nineteen-year sentence for stealing bread. His paroled...
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2006 Mauvoisin Dam 250 m (820 ft) Concrete arch Switzerland Dranse de Bagnes 1957 Laxiwa Dam 250 m (820 ft) Concrete arch China Yellow River 2009 Deriner...
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It connects Saxon in the valley of the Rhône with Vollèges in the Val de Bagnes. List of highest paved roads in Europe List of mountain passes v t e...
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incarcerated within the "bagne", or penal colonies. Within the Southern Hemisphere, it worked in New Caledonia (which had a bagne too until the end of the...
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doi:10.1201/b17393-27. Estienne, Pierre (1946). "K. Suter. — L'Economie alpestre du val de Bagnes". Revue de Géographie Alpine. 34 (2): 326–327. v t e...
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Valais, south of Verbier between the Val d'Entremont (west) and Val de Bagnes (west). The north-western facing side of Grand Combin is entirely covered...
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Parisien , 6 October 1925 Gérard de Villiers, Papillon épinglé – La vérité sur le bagne et sur le Venezuela, Presses de la cité, 1970, ASIN B000EHVA62...
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