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    Bayeux (French pronunciation: [bajø] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry...
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    The Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis; French: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux) is a Latin Church diocese of the...
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    missionary. Vigor was named bishop of Bayeux around 514. He fervently opposed paganism and reputedly founded a monastery, later known as Saint-Vigor-le-Grand...
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    in the town of Saint-Vigor-le-Grand in Calvados, Normandy, France. Its foundation is attributed to Saint Vigor, bishop of Bayeux in the first third of...
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    Bayeux Intercom is the intercommunal structure centered on the town of Bayeux. It is located in the Calvados Department in the reigon of Normandy, northeastern...
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  • Bourges the Severe (died 591) Sulpice de Bayeux [fr] 9th Century Bishop of Bayeux General Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice, who fought during the...
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    The Arrondissement of Bayeux an arrondissement of France in the Calvados department in the Normandy region. It has 123 communes. Its population is 73,794...
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    Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ viɡɔʁ lə ɡʁɑ̃] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France...
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    commune The Church of Saint-Vigor, built in the 19th century. The Villa of Agy (19th century). Balzac, during his stay in Bayeux, visited the owner, Mrs Hautefeuille...
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    ordre de Saint-Augustin au diocèse de Bayeux [The Abbots of St. Stephen's Priory in Le Plessis-Grimoult, Ordre of St. Augustin in the diocese of Bayeux] (in...
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    Cerisy Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Saint Vigor (French: Abbaye de Cerisy, Abbaye Saint-Vigor de Cerisy), located in Cerisy-la-Forêt (near Saint-Lô),...
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    The canton of Bayeux is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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    Resistance and their efforts on D-Day. The Church Built by Saint-Vigor, Bishop of the city of Bayeux (511-531), during the 11th and 12th centuries, it has two...
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    abbey was built on the site of a priory founded in 510 by Saint Vigor, bishop of Bayeux. it is a benedictine monastery. Le Molay-Littry is a town north...
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    Sainte-Honorine-de-Ducy (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ɔnɔʁinˈ də dysiˈ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern...
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    located four kilometres west of Villers-Bocage and 20 kilometres south of Bayeux in the Seulles valley. It can be accessed by road D71 coming west from Villers-Bocage...
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    Byzantine usurper Maine mac Cearbhall, king of Uí Maine (or 531) Vigor, Bishop of Bayeux Famine is described as "AI537.1, Failure of bread" in the Annals...
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    de communes de Bayeux Intercom Communauté de communes Cingal-Suisse Normande Communauté de communes Cœur Côte Fleurie Communauté de communes Cœur de Nacre...
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    This made the mount definitively part of Normandy, and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the Norman Conquest. Harold Godwinson is pictured...
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    Saint-Martin-de-Blagny (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ də blaɲi] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France...
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    region in northwestern France. Vaux-sur-Seulles is located 6 kilometers from Bayeux, in the Bessin region. The town is crossed by the Seulles river. Communes...
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  • and in the ''Mémoires des Antiquaires de Normandie'' [fr] as holding lands in the neighborhood of Falaise and Bayeux in Normandy (France) as well as in the...
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    grandiras" ("Young, you'll grow"). Some towns, such as Bayeux, still have a tree of liberty in full vigor today. A violent reaction led to the cutting down...
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    Saint-Côme-de-Fresné (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ komˈ də fʁɛneˈ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France...
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    located in the Drône valley some 4 km west of Bayeux. Access to the commune is by the D96 road from Bayeux which passes through the heart of the commune...
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    north-western France. Hottot-les-Bagues lies 14 kilometres south-east of Bayeux. The fiefdom of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo. Many of...
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    Saint-Lô (redirect from Gare de Saint Lô)
    Valognes, Cherbourg, Bayeux, Condé-sur-Noireau, Falaise, Flers, Domfront, Argentan, Lisieux, Honfleur, Saint-Lô, Mortain, Chapitre de Bayeux, Pont-Audemer,...
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    situated in the north-western region of Calvados, 20 kilometres west of Bayeux and 9 kilometres from Isigny-sur-Mer, in the natural regional park of Cotentin...
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    Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. "Tracy-sur-mer et son patrimoine". Bayeux Intercom. Retrieved 15 May 2020. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE...
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    northwestern France. It lies 1 km west of Courseulles-sur-Mer, and 18 km east of Bayeux. The commune probably acquired its name from an old landed estate in its...
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