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    Wespelaar (1798) 1791 L. Radelet Château de la Tour au Bois in Villers-le-Temple (1791) 1805 A. Dubois Château de Sélys-Longchamps in Waremme (1805) 1806 J.F...
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    Fontainebleau (/ˈfɒntɪnbloʊ/ FON-tin-bloh, US also /-bluː/ -⁠bloo; French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles)...
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    The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d(ə) sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɑ̃ lɛ]) is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    1420 granted the château and the Île-de-France to the English. Henry V of England installed his troops there, repaired the château, and died there of...
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    Longchamps Deville (27 July 1923 – 24 February 2003) was a French historian. Born in Dakar, he was the eldest son of Henry Loiseleur des Longchamps Deville...
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    Rémalard in 1969, Ernée in 1972, then Combrée, Château-Gontier and Montournais in the 2000s. Longchamp continues to manufacture its products in France...
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  • French word for castle is "château", be it for an old medieval fortress ("château fort") or a residential castle. The term "château-ferme" means that a medieval...
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    duc de Berry. The towers of the chateau are visible in the background. The Château de Vincennes and its park in 1724. The pyramid of the Bois de Vincennes...
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    Saint-Cloud (category Communes of Hauts-de-Seine)
    contains the ruins of the Château de Saint-Cloud, built in 1572 and destroyed by fire in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. The château was the residence of...
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    Vexin). Suger, Vie de Louis VI, "Au sommet d'un promontoire abrupt, dominant la rive du grand fleuve de Seine, se dresse un château affreux et sans noblesse...
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    the left bank of the Seine until 1923. It was centred around the former Château de Saint-Cloud, home of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640–1701), which was...
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    Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sɑ̃sɔ̃ də la ʁɔk]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. Communes of...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    10 August 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2023. "De Las Cases à Jean Jaurès : Crédit Agricole S.A. à travers ses sièges". Crédit Agricole. 2011. Archived from...
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    Marie-Adélaïde left her husband, and went to live with her father at the château de Bizy overlooking Vernon, Eure in Normandy In September 1792, having sided...
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    comic book author, creator of The Adventures of Tintin Sybille de Selys Longchamps (born 1941), baroness and aristocrat Willy Sommers (born 1952), crooner...
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    Albert II of Belgium (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    mainstream media to report this news. According to Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, the mother of Delphine, she and Albert shared an 18-year-long relationship...
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    for his favorite mistress, Diana de Poitiers, next to the Château de Chenonceau (1556–1559). At the royal Château de Fontainebleau, he built another fountain...
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    terraces with balustrades and parterres laid out along the axis of the château, aligned around a circular basin. He also built the Medici Fountain to...
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    Coysevox, "Fame Riding Pegasus" and "Mercury Riding Pegasus", made for the Château de Marly of Louis XIV, and installed at the Tuileries in 1719. They are copies;...
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    (/ˈsɒlɪdeɪz/) is a French annual music festival that takes place at the Longchamp Racecourse in Paris at the end of June. Organized by Solidarité sida (a...
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    2015. "Regards de Provence Museum". Musée Regards de Provence. "Opening of the Château Borély, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode". Marseille-Provence...
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    2018). "Paris 2024 : Le projet d'Aréna 2 se précise". Sport & Société. "Arena 2 : Paris choisit le marché global de performance | CCI Business Grand Paris"...
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    de Montesson, and the couple lived at the Château de Sainte-Assise where he died in 1785. Just before his death, he completed the sale of the Château...
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    of Navarre. Margaret was later convicted of adultery, was imprisoned in Château Gaillard, caught a cold and died in 1315, although another source states...
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    convent of the Jacobins in Nantes in 1228. In c. 1230, Andrew rebuilt the Château de Vitré and surrounded it with fortifications that encompassed the Vieil-Bourg...
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    consecrated on 19 May 1182 by Cardinal Henri de Château-Marçay, the Papal legate in Paris, and Maurice de Sully.[failed verification] The second phase...
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    Louvre (category Institut de France)
    sculptures such as Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay. On 27 August 1939, after two days of packing, truck...
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    Louvre) Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – Young Girls by the Seaside, The Young Mother also known as Charity, View on the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie...
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    Parc Astérix (category Tourist attractions in Hauts-de-France)
    32 km (20 mi) from Disneyland Paris and 20 km (12 mi) from the historic Château de Chantilly, in the commune of Plailly, in the department of Oise. Opened...
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    cascades no longer exist, but a very close copy does exist, at the Palais Longchamps in Marseille. Virginie Grandval, pg. 223. Virginie Grandval, pg. 229 Virginie...
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