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    Montsoreau, in the Maine-et-Loire département of France, close to Saumur, Chinon, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Candes-Saint-Martin. The Château de Montsoreau is...
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    (1913). "Jean V et Marguerite de Clisson. La ruine de Châteauceaux". Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Inférieure (in...
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    et de l'histoire des départements de la Sarthe, de la Mayenne et de Maine-et-Loire, Nantes et Paris, 1856–1860; Abbé Angot, "Les vicomtes du Maine", dans...
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    about 300 km (190 mi) southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French...
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    The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the site...
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  • Job de Roincé (Born Joseph Boreau de Roincé, 18 April 1896, Segré, Maine-et-Loire - 30 December 1981), was a French journalist and writer, and also one...
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    education, favoring private Catholic teaching. Falloux was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux...
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    (1879). Dictionnaire géographique historique et biographique d'Indre-et-Loire et de l'ancienne province de Touraine, volume 2. Tours: Imprimérie Rouillé-Ladevèze...
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    century in the village of Saint-Maur-sur-Loire, located in what is now the commune of Le Thoureil, Maine-et-Loire. According to the legendary account attributed...
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    Alexandra Gradel Île-de-France - Pauline Thimon Languedoc - Manuella Gritar Loire-Atlantique – Anna Jalia (withdrew) Maine-et-Loire - Elma Guilleux Martinique...
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    The Château de Baugé is a castle, extensively altered and restored to create a château, in the commune of Baugé-en-Anjou in the Maine-et-Loire département...
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    Maine-et-Loire, Foullon served as Intendant-General of the Armies during the Seven Years' War, and as Intendant of the Army and Navy under Marshal de...
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    Chemillé-en-Anjou (category Communes of Maine-et-Loire)
    [ʃəmije ɑ̃.n‿ɑ̃ʒu] , literally Chemillé in Anjou) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. Chemillé is the municipal seat. The commune...
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    Perche (category History of Centre-Val de Loire)
    located within the departments of Orne and Eure-et-Loir, in the regions of Normandy and Centre-Val de Loire, respectively. The Percheron breed of draft horses...
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    The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, western France, standing on Rue...
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    province (in Belgium); The Val de Loire, which includes part of the Centre-Val de Loire region, Mayenne, Sarthe, and Maine-et-Loire; The Pays Catalans in France...
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    Tome 2: Le Règne de Louis XIV. Paris: J. Picard. OCLC 489711032, 476619163. Le Goff, Guy (1991). C.A.O.A du dépt. du Maine-et-Loire, "Une visite à Brissac"...
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    The Château de Challain-la-Potherie is a castle located in the French commune of Challain-la-Potherie, in Maine-et-Loire. Constructed between 1847 and...
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  • région de la Loire moyenne, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 5, 1962 Phalle, Édouard de Saint, Comtes de Troyes et de Poitiers au IXe siècle: histoire d’un...
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    Primarily a news channel, it is available in Loire-Atlantique and parts of neighbouring Vendée and Maine-et-Loire. Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–probably...
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  • François Lebrun, Histoire des pays de la Loire: Orléanais, Touraine, Anjou, Maine [History of the Loire Country: Orleans, Touraine, Anjou, Maine], 1972 p.402...
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    pastures. Jeanne died on 19 December 1498 at the Chateau de Beaufort-en-Vallée, Maine-et-Loire. She was sixty-five years of age. A street still bears her...
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    [kyɡɑ̃ la bɛʁnaʁdjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It was formed on 1 January 2025 by the merger...
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  • covers Loire-Atlantique, Vendée and part of Maine-et-Loire. Created in 1985 under the name "Radio France Loire Océan" and taking advantage of the vacant...
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    of her maternal grandparents, residing in Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay, Maine-et-Loire. After a somewhat difficult period of elementary school, she returned...
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  • the Maine-et-Loire department. He was the youngest son of Julie Victoire Constantin de La Lorie, Dame du Plantis (1739–1828) and Georges-Gaspard de Contades...
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    Anjou, Marie Paul de Scépeaux de Bois-Guignot was named commander for the north of Maine-et-Loire. His authority later extended to Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne...
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    Battle of Chemillé (April 11, 1793) (category History of Maine-et-Loire)
    Convention, presented a report on the battle in the departments of Maine-et-Loire and Sarthe. The report indicated that 15 Republican soldiers had been...
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    Loiret and of the region of Centre-Val de Loire. Orléans is located on the river Loire nestled in the heart of the Loire Valley, classified as a World Heritage...
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    commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours....
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