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    L'Histoire-Bataille. L'écriture de l'histoire dans l'œuvre de Georges Bataille: actes de la journée d'études consacrée à Georges Bataille, Paris, École...
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  • Buchet/Chastel 1971: La Bataille de Saumur, Buchet-Chastel 1973: Les Bonheurs de la guerre, Buchet/Chastel 1978: La Fin de Pédonzigue, Simoën Notice...
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    Château de Montsoreau Château de Chambord Château de Saumur Château de Brissac Château d'Azay-le-Rideau Château d'Ancy-le-Franc Château d'Oiron Château de Hautefort...
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    issued a lettre de cachet (a royal warrant for arrest and detention without trial) and Sade was imprisoned at the Château de Saumur and later the Pierre-Encize...
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    gained several successes, among them the capture of Saumur and the victory of Parthenay (Bataille de Parthenay), but the insubordination of his troops and...
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    around the world. Twenty M1917s also survive. Europe: Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France. The museum owns three FTs, with two in running order. The inoperable...
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  • Château-sur-Epte  • Conches-en-Ouche  • Gisors  • Harcourt  • Ivry-la-Bataille  • Fort de Limaie  • Lyons-la-Forêt  • Les Tourelles  • Vernon (Archives) Manche...
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    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, wearing...
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    47 mm gun in a turret was added, to allow it to function also as a Char de Bataille, a "battle tank" fighting enemy armour, equipping the armoured divisions...
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    Angoulême and her husband, the Count of La Marche, Hugh de Lusignan. After the meeting at Saumur, Louis went to Poitiers to install his brother ceremonially...
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    Second Battle of the Alps (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The Second Battle of the Alps (French: deuxième bataille des Alpes; Italian: seconda battaglia delle Alpi) was a military campaign fought between combined...
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    Château d'Angers (category Castles in Pays de la Loire)
    Apocalypse Tapestry from the painter Hennequin de Bruges and the Parisian tapestry-weaver Nicolas Bataille. Louis II (Louis I's son) and Yolande d'Aragon...
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    Avoise) Huisne (in Le Mans) Thouet (in Saumur) Dive (near Saint-Just-sur-Dive) Argenton (near Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay) Thouaret (near Thouars) Vienne (in...
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    Battle of Elsenborn December 1944 (Part V)". Centre de Recherches et d'Informations sur la Bataille des Ardennes. Archived from the original on 12 July...
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    his son, Louis, and the pick of the feudal levies of his realm. Moving by Saumur and Chinon, he endeavoured to cut off John's line of retreat towards Aquitaine...
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    de marine". Armée de Terre. Retrieved 2012-01-20. Il revint immortel de la grande bataille", René Germain, 2007, éditions Italiques Dans la bataille ou...
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  • assigned to Trélazé and then Saumur, where he stayed for two years before being called up for military service. While at Saumur he spent time with Émile Masson...
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    The Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (French:Bataille navale de Saint-Martin-de-Ré) took place on 27 October 1622, between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle...
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    School, Saumur, training brigade stationed in the West of France 12e Régiment de Commandement et de Soutien (12e RCS), Tours 507e Régiment Chars de Combat...
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    Ferdinand Foch (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    principes de la guerre, 1903 De la conduite de la guerre, 1904 La bataille de Laon, mars 1814, 1909 Préceptes et jugements, 1919 Éloge de Du Guesclin...
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    Battle of France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign...
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    The Battle of the Lys (French: Bataille de la Lys, Dutch: Leieslag) was a major battle between Belgian and German forces during the German invasion of...
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    (French: 2e régiment de dragons, 2e RD) is the only NBC Defense Unit of the French Army, stationed at Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, by Saumur in Maine-et-Loire....
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    Ministère de la Défense (2000). Une bataille oubliée: les Alpes, 10–25 juin 1940 (PDF). Mémoire et citoyenneté. Vol. 6. Direction de la mémoire, du...
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    was a second lieutenant in the 5th Rgt de Dragoons. 1905 Second Lieutenant Bougrain graduated first from the Saumur Cavalry Application School (1905-1906)...
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    Battle of Dunkirk (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the...
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    Mathieu (December 2010). "Le Blindorama : La genèse de la force blindée bulgare 1935 - 1943". Batailles & Blindés (in French). No. 40. Caraktère. pp. 4–7...
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  • The 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds made up the qualifying competition to decide which teams took part in the main competition from round 7...
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    (French: Bataille du Blavet) was an encounter between the Huguenot forces of Soubise and a French fleet under the Duke of Nevers in Blavet harbour (Port de Blavet...
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    several eastern European countries, including Poland. Medium Tanks (Chars de Bataille), these were in fact meant to be specialised breakthrough tanks (Char...
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