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    The Port of Boulogne-sur-Mer is a seaport located on the western coast of the Hauts-de-France region, on the edge of the Pas de Calais, the world's busiest...
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    Montreuil-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tʁœj syʁ mɛʁ] ; Picard: Montreu-su-Mér or Montreul-su-Mér; Dutch: Monsterole), Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is a...
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    The County of Boulogne was a county within the Kingdom of France during the 9th to 15th centuries, centred on the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. It was ruled...
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    Count of Boulogne was a historical title in the Kingdom of France. The city of Boulogne-sur-Mer became the centre of the county of Boulogne during the...
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    Henri Émile Sauvage (category People from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist...
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  • Jean-Pierre Dickès (category People from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    Pius X and participated in the foundation of the parish Saint-Louis de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Dickès was President of the Société académique du Boulonnais, a...
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    (Pas-de-Calais) : 94% Dunkerque (Nord) : 90% Villers-Bocage (Calvados): 88% Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) : 85% Le Havre (Seine-Maritime): 82% Beauvais (Oise) :...
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    location close to the North Sea, the Nord-Pas de Calais region has a strong fishing industry. The Boulogne-sur-Mer harbor is the biggest French port in terms...
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  • 1742 bishop of Boulogne and in 1746 commendatory abbot of Ham Abbey. Eugène Van Drival, Histoire des évêques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852. v t e...
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    Santo de la Espada and the 2010 Revolución: El cruce de los Andes.[citation needed] An equestrian statue of the General was erected in Boulogne-sur-Mer; the...
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    Paul Mathaux (category Sportspeople from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    Paul-Édouard Mathaux was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on 19 February 1888, as the son of a grocer with a shop window at 2 rue de Lille, and Mathaux himself would...
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    Pierre Claude François Daunou (category People from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    he held the chair of history and ethics at the Collège de France. He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer. After studying at the school the Oratorians operates...
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    University of the Littoral Opal Coast (category University of Lille Nord de France)
    campuses in the towns of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Dunkirk, and Saint-Omer. ULCO forms part of the University of Lille Nord de France university group...
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    Count of Boulogne and Ida, daughter of the Lotharingian duke Godfrey the Bearded and his first wife, Doda. He was probably born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, although...
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    Michel Caffier (category People from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    Michel Caffier (born 17 June 1930 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 10 January 2021) was a French journalist, writer, and literary critic. He is the author of an abundant...
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    Guy of Boulogne (1313 – 25 November 1373) was a statesman and cardinal who served the Avignon Papacy for 33 years. He participated in the papal conclaves...
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  • His secretary was canon Lesage, son of the author Alain-René Lesage. Eugène Van Drival, Histoire des évêques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852. v t e...
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    canon at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Lesage's eldest son, Louis-André, had become an actor, and Lesage had disowned him. Lesage's last work, Mélange amusant de saillies...
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    to live with Germaine de Staël and Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt. In January 1793, he accompanied her to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where she sought refuge...
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    Océanopolis I (Brest), 1991 : Nausicaá I (Boulogne-sur-Mer), 2000 : Océanopolis II (Brest), 2001 : Nausicaá II (Boulogne-sur-Mer), 2014 : Caribbean Sea Centre (Guadeloupe)...
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  • First Crusade by Étienne de Blois and dedicated as a votive gift at the Abbey of Saint-Josse, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. It has been described...
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    and silk. In Paris, the Gobelins manufactory is created and the Bois de Boulogne a silkworm is built surrounded by 15,000 mulberry trees. This is also...
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    emblèmes de Boulogne-sur-Mer. "Histoire de Dunkerque : l'hôtel de ville". depuydt.erich.free.fr. Retrieved 18 June 2010.. Drapeau d'Étampes sur le site...
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    Trafalgar. Latouche was born in Rochefort-sur-mer, Charente-Maritime. His father, Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, had been the governor of Martinique...
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  • was also made bishop of Boulogne and bishop of Poitiers, both in 1698. Eugène Van Drival, Histoire des évêques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852 v t e...
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    as a result, herring was abundantly consumed by the people, making Boulogne-sur-Mer an important fishing port. The regular size of the fish meant that...
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    Camille Enlart (category People from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    Camille Enlart : Boulogne-sur-Mer, musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie, Exposition du 26 juin au 30 octobre 1977, Ed. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Musée des Beaux-Arts...
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    Franck Ribéry (category Sportspeople from Boulogne-sur-Mer)
    in 1985 aged two years old. Ribéry was born on 7 April 1983 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais and raised in a low-income neighbourhood on the fringes...
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    by Antoine-Girard de La Bournat Eugène Van Drival, Histoire des évêques de Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1852 Portals: Biography Catholicism France v t e...
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    Todt Battery (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Wimereux, in the south, and Calais in the north, along the axis Calais-Boulogne-sur-Mer making the most of the railway tracks entering the dunes and skirting...
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