• Blücher, but also Franz Lieber, Karl von Clausewitz, Cavalie Mercer, Louis Canler, Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, the Reverend William Leeke, and many others...
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    Billy, Grubber Tarzan & Jane Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, Robert "Bobby" Canler Direct-to-video Mickey's House of Villains Salesman The Land Before Time...
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    between South Foreland and Sangatte. 'Blériot-Plage' is named to commemorate Louis Blériot who, on 25 July 1909, was the first person to fly across the English...
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    Abel Tesfaye Martin McKinney Henry Walter Dylan Wiggins Roland Orzabal Coz Canler Jimmy Marinos Wally Palamarchuk Mike Skill Peter Solley Starboy November...
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    Granier-Deferre Promotion canapé Inspector of Justice Didier Kaminka (2) Lacenaire Canler Francis Girod La goutte d'or Sigisbert Marcel Bluwal TV movie Le Gorille...
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    inscription reads as follows, here translated into English: Under the reign of Louis XVI MDCCLXXXV Jean-Pierre Blanchard of Les Andelys in Normandy accompanied...
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    a portion of the Low Countries controlled by Spain from 1556 to 1714. Louis XIII reconquered Arras in 1640; the town officially became part of France...
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    Balinghem from 7 to 24 June 1520 and Francis slept at the castle on the 27th. Louis XIV was received there on 26 May 1637 and it was dismantled around 1641...
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    Richelieu) and again in 1647. Finally in 1677, after a seventeen-day siege, Louis XIV forced the town to capitulate. The peace of Nijmegen signed in the fall...
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    Antoine Delaby 1871–1878, Alexandre-Procope Comte Jonglez de Ligne 1879–1892, Louis Schmidt 1892, Félix Pamart 1893–1905, Edouard Defernez 1905–1912, Arthur...
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    Young Louis XV Louis XV In 1681 Bapaume was destroyed by fire after which it was forbidden to rebuild with thatched roofs. In 1723 a statue of Louis XV on...
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    figures, the two standing on either side of the altar-piece—representing St. Louis and Charlemagne. The organ—of a deep and mellow tone, and highly ornamented...
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    While practising over the dunes he crashed heavily and cancelled his plans. Louis Blériot won the prize and worldwide fame, from his camp at Calais. Today...
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    on the original site. In 1639 the French laid siege to Hesdin and under Louis XIII, it was recaptured for France. Thus, though Hesdin has an ancient name...
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    of Aire to the kingdom of France by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, King Louis XIV gave permission to build a new and more prestigious Town Hall, in recognition...
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    the Crown of France. In the 13th century, Lens received a charter from Louis VIII of France, allowing it to become a city. The Flemish razed the city...
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    2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016. BRASSEUR, Frederic. "Louis Montaigu". Retrieved 1 October 2016. "Louis Montaigu". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016...
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    King Philip II Augustus of France. In 1327, Artois was created a county by Louis IX. His brother Robert became the first Count. In 1303, the city of Lillers...
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    Somme and Ypres were brought to the town's chapel. There, Brigadier-General Louis John Wyatt of the North Staffordshire Regiment, aided by Lieutenant-Colonel...
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    still in existence A bird's-eye view on Hotel Royal Picardy (1929), by Louis Debrouwer and Pierre Drobecq Golf Hotel (1908), as seen from the croquet...
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    closed by 1970. It was the site of a massacre in 1940. Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton, painter Catherine Plewinski, swimmer Eric Sikora, footballer The...
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    and by the supremacy of the Royal Navy. A nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (subsequently the emperor Napoleon III), returned to...
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    Louis-Marie Cordonnier, a friend of John Whitley, who designed these vast and unique villas that today characterize Hardelot. In 1911, aviator Louis Blériot...
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    Hendecourt-Les-Ransart. The first chateau was probably built around 1703 by Louis-Joseph Le Sergeant of Hendecourt on the site of an earlier manor house....
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    The Basilica de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, built in 1932, by the architect Louis Cordonnier. It overlooks Souchez, but is in fact located on the territory...
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    chapels, dating from the twentieth century. A small 18th-century château in Louis XV style. The Grand Château : dating from the fourteenth century. The Benedictine...
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    small château of the Louis XV style The remains of a 12th-century feudal motte Baron Armel de Wismes [fr], writer and historian Louis Amadeus Rappe, the...
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    Campagne-lès-Wardrecques Campigneulles-les-Grandes Campigneulles-les-Petites Canettemont Canlers Capelle-Fermont La Capelle-lès-Boulogne Capelle-lès-Hesdin Carency Carly...
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    and park at Cercamp. A former flour mill. The Louis Ducatel Museum, housing works of the painter Louis Ducatel, local archaeology, costumes and sculptures...
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    1804. The church of St. Germain, dating from the sixteenth century. The Louis XV château, destroyed in May 1944. The present day château, home of the...
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