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    Moissac (French pronunciation: [mwasak]) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. The town is situated...
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    The Chronicle of Moissac (also known as Chronicon Moissiacense) is an anonymous compilation that was discovered in the abbey of Moissac, but is now thought...
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    Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne in south-western France. A number of its medieval buildings survive,...
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    Moissac-Bellevue (French pronunciation: [mwasak bɛlvy]; Occitan: Moissac) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in...
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    Neussargues-Moissac (Auvergnat: Nuçargues e Moissac) is a former commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. On 1 December 2016, it was...
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    Moissac station (French: Gare de Moissac) is a railway station in Moissac, Occitanie, France. The station is on the Bordeaux–Sète railway. The station...
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    canyons of the Gorges du Tarn that cuts through the Causse du Larzac, to Moissac in Tarn-et-Garonne, where it joins the Garonne, 4 km (2.5 mi) downstream...
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  • Félix d'Hesmivy de Moissac was a French Navy officer. He fought in the War of American Independence, earning a founding membership in the Society of the...
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    The Hôtel d'Esmivy de Moissac (a.k.a. Hôtel de Villars) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It is located on the...
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  • The Canton of Moissac-1 was one of the 12 cantons of the arrondissement of Castelsarrasin, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It had...
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  • The Canton of Moissac-2 was one of the 12 cantons of the arrondissement of Castelsarrasin, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It had...
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  • The canton of Moissac is an administrative division of the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation...
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    Lopez (born 1989) is a French politician and the mayor of Moissac. He was born in Moissac in 1989 and holds a master's degree in political science and...
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    Moissac-Vallée-Française (French pronunciation: [mwasak vale fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Occitan: Moissac de Valfrancesca) is a commune in the Lozère département in southern...
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    fellow National Rally politician Romain Lopez, who has served as Mayor of Moissac since 2020. She won the seat and succeeded Sylvia Pinel of the Radical...
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    returning from the journey. On each of the routes abbeys such as those at Moissac, Toulouse, Roncesvalles, Conques, Limoges and Burgos catered for the flow...
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    cut short when he was killed in a car crash in 1975. Blaise was born in Moissac, France. Blaise made his acting debut in Louis Malle's 1974 film Lacombe...
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    orthography of Portuguese, presumably by Gerald of Braga, a monk from Moissac, who became bishop of Braga in Portugal in 1047, playing a major role in...
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    Outstanding abbey churches with sculpture include in France Vézelay and Moissac and in Spain Silos. Romanesque art was characterised by a very vigorous...
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    France, many have survived, with impressive examples at Saint-Pierre, Moissac, Souillac, and La Madeleine, Vézelay – all daughter houses of Cluny, with...
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    Jackson Köpenick Las Vegas Leuven Leiden Lessines Loboc Maralal Marquette Moissac Naumburg Obermarsberg Peterborough Philadelphia Póvoa de Varzim Poznań...
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    Late 10th century organ, Moissac Abbey...
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    Saint-Blaise (L'Hôpital-Saint-Blaise) Abbey church pf Saint-Pierre and cloister (Moissac) Cathedral of Notre-Dame (Le Puy-en-Velay) Hospital of Saint-Jacques (Le...
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    analysing the carved capitals at Moissac, says: "in the tympanum of the south portal [(right)] the sculpture of Moissac becomes truly monumental. It is...
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  • André Abbal (1876–1953) was a French sculptor. He was commissioned to work on several war memorials and this article gives details of his most important...
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  • issued a fourth ban on the export of weapons to the Slavs. According to Moissac Chronicle Charlemagne's son Charles laid siege to "Canburg" (somewhere...
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  • transferred to Moissac in 1122. This information comes from Aymeric de Peyrac in his Chronicle, and in an old lectionary of the abbey of Moissac, quoted by...
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    submitting to him The 12th century Romanesque portal of Christ in Majesty at Moissac Abbey moves between low and high relief in a single figure. Harbaville...
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    Arabs) in that year or the following (720). According to the Chronicle of Moissac, the inhabitants of the city were slaughtered. The fall of the city ended...
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    for every 2,767 Catholics. Legend attributes to Clovis the foundation of Moissac Abbey in 506, but Saint Amand (594–675) seems to have been the first abbot...
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