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    's-Hertogenbosch (redirect from Bois-le-Duc)
    43,165 – Heusden 25,638 – Vught 11,242 – Maasdonk + 355,230 French: Bois-le-Duc [bwɑ l(ə) dyk]; German: Herzogenbusch [ˌhɛʁtsoːɡn̩ˈbʊʃ] . "Samenstelling...
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    Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, originally built in 1220–1230, was removed in the 17th century, then rebuilt by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the mid-19th century...
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    forward concentration" La Chesnaye des Bois 1787, p. 522, line 40. "De retour en France en 1690, Louis XIV le revêtit de la charge de Mestre de Camp Général...
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    French Resistance in Falaise and died in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1944. Gilbert de La Rochefoucauld (1889–1964) (son of preceding), known as...
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    central market, new aqueducts, sewers and parks, including the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. In 1860, Napoleon III annexed the surrounding towns...
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    between the Bois de Vincennes and the Marne River. Memorials to Leclerc Monument in Aulnay-sous-Bois Monument in Poissy Memorial plaque in Les Invalides...
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    Ernst Thälmann (category German people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp)
    August 1944, he was transferred from Bautzen prison to Buchenwald concentration camp. That same August, Heinrich Himmler took notes during a conversation...
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  • "Bois-le-duc", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4zg6ww3j William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Bois-le-Duc...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Le Panthéon)
    saving the lives of Jews who would otherwise have been deported to concentration camps. The tribute in the Panthéon underlines the fact that around three-quarters...
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    are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc". Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in...
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    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, beginning with the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Between 1837 and 1841, he built a new Hôtel de Ville with an interior...
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    Hesdin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    subcamp and deported its prisoners to subcamps of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. In 1975, a memorial plaque and a small museum was established at...
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    cherché un moyen de les prévenir. J'ai donc pris la résolution d'abdiquer la couronne en faveur de mon petit-fils, le duc de Bordeaux. Le dauphin, qui partage...
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    Battle of Verdun (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    on the village of Bois de l'Herbebois. On 23 February, a French counter-attack at Bois des Caures was defeated. Fighting for Bois de l'Herbebois continued...
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    new parks at the cardinal points of the compass: the Bois de Boulogne to the west, the Bois de Vincennes to the east, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont to...
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    Bussang Pass (redirect from Col de Bussang)
    Retrieved August 9, 2019. "Le tunnel d'Urbès - Camp de concentration nazi" [The Urbes tunnel - Nazi concentration camp]. lieux-insolites.fr (in French)...
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    elegance.] — Auguste Rodin, Les cathédrales de France (1914) Amiens Cathedral deserves the name given by M. Viollet-le-Duc, 'the Parthenon of Gothic architecture'...
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    also has two rooms dedicated to artists whose works were made in concentration camps. The Comtois Museum, installed in 1961 in the Royal Front, presents...
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    Fox Nation, which was seen as a threat. The fort was named after Louis, duc de Chartres, son of the regent of France. Because of frequent flooding, another...
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    the city of Hanoi. The most approved ones are Mỹ Đình National Stadium ( Đức Thọ Boulevard), Quần Ngựa Sports Palace (Văn Cao Avenue), Hanoi Aquatics...
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    List of last words (20th century) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1938), said prior to collapsing and dying of exhaustion in Buchenwald concentration camp "Do not blame anyone. It's my fault." — Valery Chkalov, Soviet test...
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    Sagrera and Camp de l'Arpa, X-Sant Martí de Provençals, Clot and Poblenou. These districts were expanded in 1949 with two more: XI-Les Corts and XII-Sagrada...
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    lancers were engaged at Frasnes, after which the Nassauers retreated to the Bois de Bossu, a thick patch of forest near Quatre Bras. "6:30 p.m. – some accounts...
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  • defenders. On 20 January the 320th Division attacked ĐứcCamp and by the next day controlled the camp. On 27 January the 24th and 28th Regiments, 10th...
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    occupied by Prussian, Russian, Austrian and British soldiers, who camped in the Bois de Boulogne and the open land along the Champs Élysées, and remained...
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    Portuguese vocabulary (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    de la langue françoise par M. Ménage, avec les Origines françoises de M. de Caseneuve, les Additions du R. P. Jacob et de M. Simon de Valhébert, le Discours...
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    Battle of Fleurus (1794) (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
    Dupuis 1907, p. 344. Dupuis 1907, p. 377. Soult, Jean-de-Dieu (1854). Memoires du Marechal Soult, Duc de Dalmatie (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Amyot...
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    Montsoreau (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    origin to the name of the Mont Soreau: - Ah, faith, I 'll let monseigneur le Duc d' Anjou wait. This man piques my curiosity. I think him a very singular...
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  • 1890) November 22 Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905) Aldous Huxley, English-born novelist (Brave New World) (b...
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    anti-Nazi German pastor who later died in 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, once wrote in a letter to his grandmother: "The issue really is:...
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