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    covers 130 km2 (50 sq mi) of land. Villers-Cotterêts is famous in French law because of the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts of 1539 signed by king Francis...
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    (Robchiye) Saint-Remy (Sint-Rmey) Salles (Sale) Vaulx (Vå) Villers-la-Tour (Vilé-al-Tour) Virelles (Virele) Chimay Castle, the château of the princes...
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    Villers-Bretonneux (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ bʁətɔnø]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Villers-Bretonneux...
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    Villers-la-Montagne (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ la mɔ̃taɲ]; Luxembourgish: Biergweller) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern...
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    Villers-la-Chèvre (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ la ʃɛvʁ]; Luxembourgish: Gäässweller) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern...
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    Villers-la-Combe (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ la kɔ̃b]) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France...
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  • Championships 4th Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts 2000 3rd National Road Race Championships 2003 2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe "Alexei Sivakov". ProCyclingStats...
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  • Grand-Halleux Petit-Thier Villers-la-Ville Villers-la-Ville Marbais Mellery Sart-Dames-Avelines Tilly Villers-le-Bouillet Villers-le-Bouillet Fize-Fontaine...
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  • The Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in the commune of Villers-Cotterêts, France from 1998 until 2008....
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  • Brichard (Arsimont, 20 December 1899 – Villers-Poterie, 8 July 2004) was a Belgian cyclist. Brichard participated in the Tour de France in 1926, and was also...
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    Cauchy-à-la-Tour (French pronunciation: [koʃi a la tuʁ]; Picard: El-Cauchie-à-l’Tour; Dutch:"Turringhem" (house of the sons of Turr)) is a commune in...
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    municipality consists of the following districts: Bastogne, Longvilly, Noville, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, and Wardin. The town is situated on a ridge in the Ardennes...
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    Villers-le-Temple is a village and district of the municipality of Nandrin, located in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. The location has been...
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    Évreux, 243 km (151 mi) 8 July 1986 — Évreux to Villers-sur-Mer, 124 km (77 mi) 9 July 1986 — Villers-sur-Mer to Cherbourg, 200 km (120 mi) 10 July 1986...
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    6460 - Chimay 6460 - Robechies 6460 - Saint-Rémy 6460 - Salles 6460 - Villers-la-Tour 6461 - Virelles 6462 - Vaulx 6463 - Lompret 6464 - Baileux 6464 - Bourlers...
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    known by specialists in the ammonites too. It seems that Villers-sur-Mer (then known as Villers) was more akin to a group of hamlets during the early 19th...
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    Villers-Canivet (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ kanivɛ]) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Communes...
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    Taylor: Villers-Bocage through the Lens. 1999, ISBN 978-1870067072. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Villers-Bocage...
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    Bradley McGee (category Australian Tour de France stage winners)
    Grand Prix des Nations 9th Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue 2005 1st Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts 8th Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Points classification...
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    the theme was himself." Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne...
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  • du Limousin (Patrice Halgand) 1st overall, Tour du Limousin (Patrice Halgand) 1st, Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts (Laurent Lefèvre) 1st, A travers le...
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    Mars-la-Tour (French pronunciation: [maʁs la tuʁ]) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France. The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was...
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  • Adrien Dumont de Chassart (category PGA Tour golfers)
    won in his professional debut; the BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Korn Ferry Tour, defeating Josh Teater in a playoff. The following week, at the Blue Cross...
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    road from Villers to Passavant-en-Argonne, and the gap south of Villers, a front three kilometers long. The battalion command post was at Villers. The Regiment...
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  • Ribécourt-la-Tour Les Rues-des-Vignes Rumilly-en-Cambrésis Saint-Benin Saint-Souplet Séranvillers-Forenville Troisvilles Villers-Guislain Villers-Outréaux...
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    husband’, but left with La Vallière. Lair considers La Vallière as official favourite from the time of the festivities at Villers-Cotterêts. Courtiers now...
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    Villers-Cotterets The fictional character Jean Valjean was born in Faverolles, Aisne Jean Racine was from La Ferte-Milon Maurice Quentin de la Tour was...
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    Michael Wittmann (category Burials at La Cambe German war cemetery)
    7th Armoured Division entered Villers-Bocage. Their objective was to exploit the gap in the front line, seize Villers-Bocage, and capture the nearby...
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    broaden the scope of the ordinance of Charles VII. Finally, the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, signed into law by Francis I in 1539, called for the use of...
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  • Nicolas Dumont (cyclist) (category Tour de Guadeloupe winners)
    1996 1st Stage 4 Tour de l'Ain 1st Stage 2b Ronde de l'Isard 1998 3rd Tour du Finistère 2000 4th Tour du Doubs 5th GP de Villers-Cotterêts 2002 1st...
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