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    Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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    Carhaix, Quimperlé and Douarnenez. Finistère includes the island of Ushant (Eusa in Breton, Ouessant in French). Finistère is the westernmost department of...
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    serving Brest, France. It is located in the commune of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the département of Finistère. Though...
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    Béatrice Dalle (category Actors from Brest, France)
    characters that are both provocative and transgressive. Dalle was born in Brest, Finistère, France, as Béatrice Cabarrou. She grew up in Le Mans with her mother...
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    The Château de Brest (Breton: Kastell Brest) is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the...
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    (Seine-Maritime): 82% Beauvais (Oise) : 80% Lorient (Morbihan) : 80 % Brest (Finistère) : 80 % Saint-Lô (Manche): 77% Falaise (Calvados): 76% Lisieux (Calvados):...
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    arrondissement of Brest, sometimes referred to as greater Brest, or the greater Brest region, is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department in...
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  • Finistère (TEF) were a 23 kilometres (14 mi) long 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in), metre gauge, rural tramway connecting Brest with Le Conquet in Finistère....
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    Conservatoire botanique national de Brest (32 hectares) is a notable botanical garden located at 52 Allée du Bot, Brest, Finistère, in the region of Brittany,...
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    133 23 Le Mans Sarthe Pays de la Loire 144,016 144,244 143,847 24 Brest Finistère Brittany 144,548 139,386 139,926 25 Tours Indre-et-Loire Centre-Val...
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    Petit Minou Lighthouse (category Tourist attractions in Finistère)
    Minou Lighthouse (Phare du Petit Minou) is a lighthouse in the roadstead of Brest, standing in front of the Fort du Petit Minou, in the commune of Plouzané...
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    Breton. The sitcom, Ken Tuch, is in Breton. Radio Kerne, broadcasting from Finistère, has exclusively Breton programming. Some movies (Lancelot du Lac, Shakespeare...
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    The ship was captured by the French frigate Galathée and taken to Brest, Finistère Commerce de Marseille ( French Navy): Siege of Toulon: The Océan-class...
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    Force océanique stratégique (FOST), France's nuclear SSBN fleet, is at Brest, Finistère. Germany operated a government bunker (Regierungsbunker) to house the...
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  • Edith Ker (category Actors from Brest, France)
    born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French actress born in Brest (Finistère). She is best known to English-speaking audiences as the grandmother...
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    consignations (15%), Departmental Council of Finistère(10%), Brest CCI Brest (7%), Crédit Agricole du Finistère (5%), Caisse interfédérale de Crédit mutuel...
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    Brest Programme Grande Ecole". Mec-info.com. 23 December 2010. "Ma biographie". Graziella Melchior - Député de la 5ème circonscription du Finistère (in...
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    roadstead of Brest (French: rade de Brest, French pronunciation: [ʁad də bʁɛst]; Breton: Lenn-vor Brest) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère department...
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    competitions. Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), Brest (Finistère), Hyères (Var), Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Quiberon (Morbihan)...
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  • between Finistère and the islands of Ushant, Molène and Sein every day of the year, under a public service contract to the Conseil général du Finistère. It...
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  • veel R&D, ICT, automotive, logistiek en agribusiness. "Communes in Brest (Finistère, France) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and...
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  • of Brest in France. Each edition took the name of the city of Brest, followed by the year: Brest 1992, Brest 1996, Brest 2000, Brest 2004, Brest 2008;...
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  • the Finistère department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: Brest-1 Brest-2 Brest-3 Brest-4 Brest-5...
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    Brest Métropole is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Brest. It is located in the Finistère department, in the Brittany...
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    (French pronunciation: [odjɛʁn]; Breton: Gwaien) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016 the former...
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    Alain Robbe-Grillet (category Film people from Brest, France)
    Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian). Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest (Finistère, France) to a family of engineers and scientists. He was trained as...
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    Portzic Lighthouse (category Buildings and structures in Brest, France)
    north-eastern extremity of the Goulet de Brest (Finistère, France) and is the nearest lighthouse to the town of Brest. It is a 35 metres (115 ft) tall octagonal...
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    d'Instruction des Armées Clermont-Tonnerre at Rue du Colonel Fonferrier, Brest, Finistère, in the region of Brittany, France. It is open to the public weekend...
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    The 4 arrondissements of the Finistère department are: Arrondissement of Brest, (subprefecture: Brest) with 77 communes. The population of the arrondissement...
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    Pointe de Corsen (category Landforms of Finistère)
    westernmost point of continental France, located west of Brest in the Plouarzel Commune, Finistère, Brittany. A CROSS sea monitoring site is located at the...
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