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    Liberté and Rue Baptiste-Monnoyer. In the early 1970s, a new building, the Forum, was built at the corner of Charles Saint-Venant and Gustave Delory streets...
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    of the town's reconstruction. The new socialist municipality led by Gustave Delory decided not to rebuild the destroyed building, but to erect a new one...
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  • Jean Dubrulle, Roubaix 1922–1928: avenue des Villas (now the avenue Gustave Delory), Roubaix 1929: Stade Amédée Prouvost, Wattrelos 1930–1934: avenue des...
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    instruments. In 1925, the funeral of the commune's former socialist mayor, Gustave Delory, took place here. In February 1269, Marguerite of Constantinople, at...
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    1896 Lille became the first city in France to be led by a socialist, Gustave Delory. By 1912, Lille's population stood at 217,000. The city profited from...
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    inhabitants in 1872, over 200,000 in 1891, and 217,000 in 1912. In 1896, Gustave Delory became the first socialist mayor of a major French city, following Roubaix...
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