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    reportedly urged by his adviser Colonel Charras to carry out a self coup to remain in power, but he refused. To Charras' argument that giving power to Louis-Napoléon...
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    caserne Charras in Courbevoie, inscribed as a 'Monument historique' in 1929, demolished in 1962, façade rebuilt in the park of the château de Bécon Saint-Denis...
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    co-director le Bargy) summoned his powerful rival, Duke Henri de Guise, to his chambers at the Château de Blois and had him brutally murdered. The film has its...
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  • Notre-Dame de Gercy or Jarcy), Varennes-Jarcy, Essonne Grandvaux Abbey (Abbaye du Grandvaux), Grande-Rivière, Jura Grosbot Abbey (Abbaye de Grosbot), Charras, Charente...
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  • relocated to the new Centre Charras in Courbevoie in 1973. In the 1980s, the pool hosted the Meeting International de Natation de la F.F.N., successively...
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  • trial, one of Alain de Monéys' murderers, François Mazière, explained that a few days earlier, on August 9, during a fair in Charras, he had heard Maillard...
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    portion of the commune is covered with a network of canals which link to the Charras Canal which crosses the south of the commune from west to east. List of...
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    driver René Arnoux. Chevalier de Bayard, the legendary "knight without fear and without reproach", was born at the Château Bayard in Pontcharra. Pontcharra...
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    Spain Vyškov, Czech Republic The Musée des arts du Cognac The Château des Valois The Château des Valois The Coniacian Age of the Cretaceous Period of geological...
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    This is a list of French marquesses (French: marquisats de France) of the Ancien Régime, created by letters patent granted by a sovereign and, for the...
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    Revolution in France in 1815, vol. 2, Leigh, p. 78 Charras, Jean Baptiste Adolphe (1863), Histoire de la campagne de 1815 (4th ed.), Lacroix, Verboeckhoven etce...
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    Charente department in southwestern France. The village is dominated by the Château de Verteuil. Communes of the Charente department "Répertoire national des...
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    D110 west of the commune. The commune is entirely farmland. The Canal de Charras forms the south-eastern border of the commune with the Canal des Roseaux...
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    three kilometers north of the town center is the Domaine de Boisbuchet with the Château de Boisbuchet, built in 1865 on a hill above the Vienne. The...
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    diocese of Angoulême (Charras, Charente) Gruchet Abbey or Gruchet-le-Valasse Abbey (also known as Le Valasse Abbey) (Abbaye de Gruchet-le-Valasse or Abbaye...
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    300–400 (De Mauduit, Les derniers jours etc., vol. II, p. 19) 500–600 (Charras, Histoire de la campagne etc., vol. I, p. 114) French cooking fires were positions...
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  • l'Administration. Charles Charras, Le Cœur dans le chapeau. Daniel Atger, La Traversée d'un siècle (1881-1981). L'Église réformée de l'Annonciation. Didier...
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  • (général de brigade) Henri François Marie Charpentier (général de division) Joseph Charras (général de brigade) Jean-Louis Charrière (général de brigade)...
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    Charro y Charra, 1853 Chinaco e india en patio mexicano (lit. 'Chinaco and India on a Mexican patio'), 1854 Portrait of Don Manuel Romero de Terreros...
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    which the town and château are now located had been the site of a Gallic oppidum and a Roman castrum until in the 8th century, a château was started to be...
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    narrow streets of unspoilt, typically Charentais buildings to the medieval chateau, which dominates the western approach. Barbezieux-Saint-Hilarie is the...
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    Chateau The well in front of the Chateau Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654), French writer, lived in the Château of Balzac. Communes of the Charente...
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    Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    de Lussan d'Aubeterre, retained the title of Marquis of Aubeterre. The younger son took the title of Count of Aubeterre and lived in the Château de Bonnes...
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    Gautier website (in French) Base Mérimée: IA00066106 Moulin du Château, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Collèges, Academic Inspection of Charente...
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    facilities such as a public swimming-pool, a track and a football pitch. The Château de Saint-Martial is situated nearby. Communes of the Charente department...
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    the outskirts. These include: Bandes, Bonetève, Bors, Bouchet, Bournet, Château Banal, Chauffie, Croix, Fayolles, Fontceeverane, Fougeras, Gardette, Les...
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    Marton) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Château de Marthon - castle ruins Communes of the Charente department "Répertoire...
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    des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic...
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    "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024. Des villages de Cassini aux communes...
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    ʃaʁɑ̃t]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Château de Montignac - keep and remains of an 11th-13th century castle, listed since...
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