Island (Île des Soeurs). The island is served by buses 207 and 407. Historically named Île Bonaventure, by 1723 it had come to be named Île Bizard, after...
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Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (pronounced [baʁɔ̃ ɡi edwaːʁt‿alfɔ̃s pɔl də ʁɔt.ʃild]; 21 May 1909 – 12 June 2007) was a French banker and...
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Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris...
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Battle of Grand Port (category Isle de France (Mauritius))
Île de France. With Île Bourbon secured in July 1810, the British now occupied a large fortified island base within easy sailing distance of Île de France...
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Paris (redirect from Paris, Île-de-France)
Seine. Of those, two remain today: Île Saint-Louis and the Île de la Cité. A third one is the 1827 artificially created Île aux Cygnes. Modern Paris owes much...
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Kerguelen Islands (redirect from Grande Terre de Kerguelen)
île de Croÿ, île du Roland, îles Ternay, îles d'Après) Île de Castries Îles Leygues (north, including île de Castries, île Dauphine) Île Violette Île Australia...
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Petite Basque ("the small Basque") Île Manowin (from the Montagnais manouane meaning "where eggs are picked") Île du Corossol (named after the French...
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Ile de Chypre (25 March 1985 – 2010) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After showing some promise as a juvenile he improved to become a leading...
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capture Île Bonaparte, which he restored to its former name of "Île Bourbon". In August, Rowley attempted to extend his blockade of Isle de France by...
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Réunion (redirect from Île Bourbon)
under the First Empire, General Decaen named it Île Bonaparte (after Napoleon), and in 1810 it became Île Bourbon again. It was eventually renamed Réunion...
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Guy de Lussigny (30 August 1929 in Cambrai, northern France – 14 July 2001 in Paris) was a French painter of the school of geometric abstraction. Guy...
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Omar Sy (category Male actors from Île-de-France)
was born on 20 January 1978 in Trappes in the Yvelines department of the Île-de-France region. Both his parents are immigrants from West Africa. His Mauritanian...
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water to reach the island, Île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine. At this point on the riverbank, the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville is formed by the convergence...
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disembarked the crews to reinforce the garrison of Port Louis. The Invasion of Île de France occurred in November, and the island surrendered the next month....
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Padre de Familia". TV Squad. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2010. Haque, Ahsan (November 26, 2007). "Family Guy: "Peter's...
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Saint-Mandé (redirect from Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne)
pronunciation: [sɛ̃ mɑ̃de] ) is a high-end commune of the Val-de-Marne department in Île-de-France in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located...
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John Russell (Australian painter) (section Belle Île)
Gallery Belle Ile en mer, 1898 Rough Sea, Belle-Île, 1900, National Gallery of Victoria Boys on the Beach, Belle Ile, c. 1900 La Pointe de Morestil, Calm...
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rich saltworks. Alongside this posting he was made governor of the Île de Ré, the Île d'Oléron and Marennes in recognition of his naval service. The victorious...
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Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (French pronunciation: [gaspezi il də la madlɛn]) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented...
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of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region 18 km (11 mi) from the center of Paris. Paleolithic artifacts...
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The Abbey of Île Barbe was an Abbey built very early in the Christian era, on Île Barbe, outside of Lyon, France. The abbey was founded on the island in...
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Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu (French pronunciation: [deɔda də dɔlɔmjø]; 23 June 1750 – 28...
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Gennevilliers (category Île-de-France geography stubs)
commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located 9.1 km (5.7 mi) from the centre of Paris...
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Emilia Pérez (category Films shot in Île-de-France)
sung and choreographed." Principal photography began in May 2023 in the Île-de-France region, before wrapping on 5 July 2023. The film is produced by Pascal...
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business owners. This has meant that the heads of wealthy regions such as Île-de-France or Rhône-Alpes can be high-profile positions. Proposals to give regions...
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Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix (formerly Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord and Charlevoix—Montmorency) is a federal electoral district...
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Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 (category Isle de France (Mauritius))
determine possession of the French Indian Ocean territories of Isle de France and Île Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign lasted from the...
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Fortress of Louisbourg (redirect from Forteresse de Louisbourg)
maintained control of its colonies at Île Royale, Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island), Canada and Louisiana, with Île Royale being France's only territory...
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Histoire des fortifications de Paris et leur extension en Île-de-France, Éditions Horvath, 1995. Guy le Hallé, in « Paris aux cent villages », mensuel (mai...
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The Capture of Belle Île was a British amphibious expedition to capture the French island of Belle Île off the Brittany coast in 1761, during the Seven...
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