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    Chaussée de Waterloo (French: [ʃo.se d(ə) wa.tɛʁ.lo]) or Waterloosesteenweg (Dutch), is a long north–south arterial road from Brussels to Waterloo, Belgium...
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    façade, left). La bataille de Jemappes (The Battle of Jemappes), by Carlo Marochetti (Eastern façade). Le passage du pont d'Arcole (The Battle of Arcole)...
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    Hundred Days 3000km 2,000miles St.Helena 5 Rochefort 4 Waterloo 3 Paris 2 Elba 1    The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the...
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    Monet – Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge, and in his Water Lilies paintings Camille Pissarro – various bridges in Paris, including "le Pont Neuf" J...
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    known. It later took the name of the town it was to defend, Charenton-le-Pont. The fort cost 5 million francs at the time, equivalent to 9 million current...
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  • dormant in 1998–99 and became Côte-de-Beaupré Caron et Guay) Québec As (2001–03; renamed Québec Radio X, then Pont-Rouge Lois Jeans) Rive-Sud Chacals...
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    After their defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the French Army of the North, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte retreated in disarray...
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    in Montreal, Quebec. Originally a distiller of Canadian whisky based in Waterloo, Ontario, it was in the 1990s the largest owner of alcoholic beverage lines...
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    The Waterloo campaign commenced with a pre-emptive attack by the French Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The first elements of...
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    département is connected to the adjacent Eure department via the Tancarville and Pont de Normandie bridge crossings of the Seine. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert...
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    Rothschild and Mathilde Sophie Henriette de Weisweiller, x 1923: Claude du Pont of the Du Pont family. Elisabeth Pelletier de Chambure (1902–1945), the only member...
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    The Métro Léger de Charleroi (abbreviated as MLC, also locally referred to as the Métro Carolo or simply Le Métro in French) is a 33-kilometre (21 mi)...
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    After their defeat at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the French Army of the North, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte retreated in disarray...
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    Resal (1887, p. 371) "Notice sur les courbes en anse de panier employées dans la construction des ponts". Annales des ponts et chaussées. Mémoires et documents...
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    Mêlait leurs cendres aux sables de Memphis Où le Kremlin s'écroula sous leur gloire: Des Alpes au Thabor, de l'Ebre au Pont-Euxin, Ils sont tombés, vingt...
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    Creation of the City of Pont-Rouge by the merger of the Municipality of Sainte-Jeanne-de-Pont-Rouge and the Village of Pont-Rouge. The Municipality of...
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    in 1808; it became known as the Élysée-Napoléon. After the Battle of Waterloo, Napoléon returned to the Élysée and signed his abdication there on 22...
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  • Population: 92,375. 1822 - Pont de pierre (bridge) opens. 1831 - Maurel & Prom in business. 1834 - Société de Pharmacie de Bordeaux founded. 1835 - City...
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    Aix, La Biolle, Chambéry (2 cantons), Le Châtelard, Les Échelles, L'Hôpital, Montmélian, Novalaise, Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin, La Rochette, Ruffieux, Saint-Genix...
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    Laurens, Guillaume (28 March 2018). "Toulouse : finalement, le pont Neuf sera bien aux couleurs de la communauté LGBT pour la gay pride". Actu Toulouse. Noix...
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    Equipment Meyzieu -> Air conditioning, ventilation and fire protection Pont-de-Vaux -> Commercial boilers La Roche-sur-Yon -> Electric radiators, Bathroom...
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    calvados, camembert, and Pont-l'Évêque cheeses. One of the advantage of Calvados is to be fairly near large urban centers (Paris, Ile de France). Calvados is...
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    returned and took residence in the house after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815), before his exile to the island of Saint Helena. After Josephine's...
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    René le Forestier, Les Illuminés de Bavière et la franc-maçonnerie allemande, Paris, 1914, Book 1, Chapter 3, pp. 45–72. René le Forestier, Les Illuminés...
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  • Pont du Pays de Liège [fr] (bridge) and Tunnel de Cointe [fr] open. 2007 Festival international du film policier de Liège [fr] begins. Haute École de...
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    Timeline of Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1647 Pont au Change rebuilt by architect Androuet du Cerceau. 1648 27 January – Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded by Charles Le Brun...
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  • The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service and is considered one of the...
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    recommended by the bishop Louis-Hilaire de Conzié, he secured a scholarship at the prestigious Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Among his peers were Camille...
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    building, with the dimension stones being reused for the construction of the Pont de la Concorde and other parts sold by Palloy as souvenirs. Most of the building...
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  • C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aiseau-Presles Aiseau Pont-de-Loup Presles Roselies Amay Amay Ampsin Flône Jehay Ombret-Rawsa Amblève...
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