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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Godfrey of Bouillon (redirect from Godfrey of Boulogne)
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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