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    Collioure (French pronunciation: [kɔljuʁ] ; Catalan: Cotlliure, IPA: [kuˈʎːiwɾə]) is a commune in the southern French department of Pyrénées-Orientales...
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    Collioure (French pronunciation: [kɔljuʁ] ) is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for French wines situated around the town of Collioure in the Roussillon...
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    View of Collioure (French: Les toits de Collioure) is a 1905 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse. It is an example of the style that Matisse employed...
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    The Open Window, also known as Open Window, Collioure, is a painting by Henri Matisse. The work, an oil on canvas, was painted in 1905 and exhibited at...
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    at Collioure is a 1905 painting by French painter André Derain. It was made while he was working with Henri Matisse at the fishing port of Collioure, in...
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    Landscape at Collioure is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Henri Matisse from 1905. It is typical of his Fauvist style of the period. It is...
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    base in Paris and extending it northwards to Dunkirk and southwards to Collioure. They measured a base of 7,246 toises near Perpignan, and a somewhat shorter...
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    Château Royal de Collioure (Catalan: Castell Reial de Cotlliure) is a massive French beach fortified royal castle in the town of Collioure, a few kilometers...
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    The Battle of Collioure (20–23 December 1793) saw troops from Spain attack a French division during the War of the Pyrenees. The Spanish troops led by...
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    AOC takes its name), Cerbère, Collioure and Port-Vendres. The boundaries of the AOC are identical to those of the Collioure AOC. Banyuls Grand Cru is an...
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  • 1949 O'Brian and Mary moved to Collioure, a Catalan town in southern France. He and Mary remained together in Collioure until her death in 1998. Mary's...
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    color—notably in paintings from Tahiti—strongly influenced Derain's work at Collioure in 1905. In 1888 Gauguin had said to Paul Sérusier: "How do you see these...
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    summer of 1905 painting and drawing in the Mediterranean fishing town of Collioure, France with fellow artist André Derain. During this time, Matisse and...
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    The siege of Collioure (6 – 29 May 1794) saw a Republican French army led by Jacques François Dugommier invest the French port of Collioure held by a Spanish...
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    summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of Collioure and Derain completed the Mountains at Collioure painting. Later that year they displayed their...
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    olives and goat's cheese. Fish are also very popular in the region, with Collioure being famous for its anchovies. However, fishing has declined due to the...
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  • Battle of Truillas and several other actions, and seized the port of Collioure in December. In January 1794, the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees received...
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    sol de infancia. Machado is buried in Collioure where he died; Leonor is buried in Soria. On his way to Collioure in December 1938, he wrote "For the strategists...
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    d'Orsay, Paris, France Landscape at Collioure, 1905, Museum of Modern Art, New York City Open Window, Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington...
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    Villelongue-dels-Monts on 7 December. At the Battle of Collioure, Gregorio García de la Cuesta captured the ports of Collioure and Port-Vendres from the French on 20...
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    The cystoliths are extended to more or less rounded. In 1874, while in Collioure (south of France), French botanist Charles Naudin discovered that a strong...
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  • directed by Olivier Marchal. In 2012, she joined the Compagnie du Boramar in Collioure, with which she appeared in two plays by Molière. She won her first major...
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    Henri Matisse comes very close to pure abstraction in French Window at Collioure (1914), View of Notre-Dame (1914), and The Yellow Curtain from 1915. And...
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    Rome in 1213. Marie also perhaps bore Peter II a daughter, "Sancha", at Collioure in October 1205 according to Christian Nique. ("Sancha" was born in 1206...
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    days later, the French army was disastrously defeated at the Battle of Collioure and had to beat a hasty retreat to Perpignan. The representatives-on-mission...
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    through the treason of its commander and, in the Battle of Collioure, captured the port of Collioure on 20 December, wiping out 4,000 of its garrison of 5...
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    The Open Window (1905) Woman with a Hat (1905) View of Collioure (1905) Landscape at Collioure (1905) Le bonheur de vivre (1906) The Young Sailor II (1906)...
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    fellow painter integral to the Fauvist movement, joined him at his home in Collioure. The two aimed to treat color as a "material" like other solids such as...
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    Ille-sur-Têt Montjuïc 1st Tarragona Almenar Montmeló La Granada Monzón Collioure 1st Tortosa Perpignan 1st Roses 2nd Salses 1st Lleida Miravet Monzón 2nd...
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    vinegar marinade, a preservation method associated with the coastal town of Collioure in southwest France. The white fillets (a little like marinated herrings)...
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