• Le Donjon is a former canton of the Allier department, Auvergne, France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect...
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    buildings were sold off and only the donjon was preserved. During the Second World War an attempt was made to demolish the donjon with dynamite by German soldiers...
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    n° 2014-265 du 27 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de l'Allier Populations légales 2013: Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble...
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    the Savoy Period, the Bernese Period, and the Vaudois Period. A square donjon was built on the island in the 11th century but we don't know the identity...
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  • Culture, Mérimée PA12000040 Chateau (in French) "Home - Le Donjon du Château". Le Donjon du Château. Retrieved 2018-01-20. Ministry of Culture, Palissy...
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    the new commune of Cesny-les-Sources. Donjon (the keep) Communes of the Calvados department Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales...
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  • of them ennobled after 1500. Older families include D'Arens, Dapifer, Du Donjon, or D'Estavayer. Since the Reformation the Republic of Geneva did not...
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    Aigle Castle (category Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud)
    expanded and received a city charter. The castle was rebuilt, with a fortified donjon and a curtain wall. In the 14th century, the Lords of Compey inherited the...
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    September 7, and regretfully not the year. The Tour du Roy The Tour du Roy is a limestone donjon built in 1237. From its name (meaning ‘the King's tower’)...
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    then Docium in 1177. Doué-la-Fontaine is the site of the oldest habitable donjon (keep) in France, dating back to c. 950. No traces of Doué's medieval fortifications...
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    Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Vue générale des ruines du donjon dans leur environnement, pop.culture.gouv.fr Base Mérimée: Église Saint-Dizaint...
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    Nicholas – built at the end of the 11th century Hôtel du Moulin de Tercey, 2 rue Saint-Martin Donjon of Argentan, built by Henry II of England Saint Germain...
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    Count of Ligny. In 1465, John's nephew, Louis of Luxembourg, built a huge donjon, 33m high, 33m in diameter with walls 11m thick. In 1917, German forces...
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  • of 2014. Prior to 2014, Allier had 33 cantons. Décret n° 2014-265 du 27 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de l'Allier...
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    Falaise pocket in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy. The Norman keep or Donjon was built in the 12th century. It is one of the rare surviving examples...
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    is a campsite in neighbouring Villiers-sur-Orge. Attractions include the Donjon, a park with animals, the town greenhouse, a grotto, and a Russian Necropolis...
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    cathedral dating from 1272 The Palace of the Archbishops of Narbonne, and its donjon with views over Narbonne Musée Archeologique, an archaeological museum in...
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    first operational squadron of nuclear bombers, the Dassault Mirage IVA. The Donjon Lacataye is the keep of a 14th-century castle Despiau-Wlérick Museum (1930s...
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    Spain Schweinfurt, Germany Trois-Rivières, Canada Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir) Donjon and chapel of the château Fountain and façade of the town hall of Châteaudun...
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    upriver to Paris (Le Ménestrel du Vexin). Suger, Vie de Louis VI, "Au sommet d'un promontoire abrupt, dominant la rive du grand fleuve de Seine, se dresse...
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    and Saône-et-Loire. Access to the commune is by road D989 from Neuilly-en-Donjon in the west which passes through the south of the commune and continues...
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    differed little from English castles but its striking feature was a 144-foot donjon of six storeys completed in 1475, isolated from the rest of the castle,...
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    (in French). 17 December 2024. Décret n° 2014-248 du 25 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques "Résultat...
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    ISBN 0-399-11022-4. Gouhot, Pierre (1988). Bourbon-l'Archambault: Station thermale du rhumatisme (in French). Expansion scientifique française. Schofield, Hugh...
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    which the Catholic army imprisoned her and her daughter Anne de Rohan at Donjon de Niort. She was said to be the "last great heroine of the French Reform...
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    a landscaped park. To the west there is the 16th-century Manoir du Dur Ecu (a donjon was added later for effect) built on the site of a Roman villa. Urville-Nacqueville...
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    it with a 35-metre donjon (keep). The Romanesque cloister of the cathedral was demolished in 1857. The sanctuary of Notre-Dame-du-Grau was once an ancient...
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    Romont (category Municipalities of the canton of Fribourg)
    Evian in 1244, confirmed the Savoy rights to Romont. The main castle (Grand Donjon), with a typical Savoy square floor plan, was completed before 1260. The...
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    stained glass of the latter period. Other interesting buildings are the hôtel du Grand Cerf dating from the first half of the 16th century, and the chapel...
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    (partly) Communauté de communes du Pays d'Huriel Communauté de communes du Pays de Lapalisse Communauté de communes du Pays de Tronçais Communauté de communes...
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