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    La Rochelle Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de la Rochelle) is a Catholic church located in the city of La Rochelle, France. The cathedral has...
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    Vendée. Centre des monuments nationaux Vauclair castle La Rochelle Cathedral Base Mérimée: Saint-Nicolas tower, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)...
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    The Allied siege of La Rochelle occurred during the Second World War in 1944–45, when Allied troops invaded France. La Rochelle was an important German...
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    The Chain Tower (category Buildings and structures in La Rochelle)
    century. Centre des monuments nationaux Vauclair castle La Rochelle Cathedral Base Mérimée: The Chain Tower, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)...
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  • "Charente-Inferieure: La Rochelle". Angoumois et Saintonge. À la France: sites et monuments (in French). Paris: Touring-Club de France. 1904. "La Rochelle". Dictionnaire...
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    naturelle de La Rochelle is a natural history museum located in the city of La Rochelle, France. The building is listed as a historic monument by order...
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    Saint Nicolas Tower (category Buildings and structures in La Rochelle)
    The tower looks as it did in the 1400s. Centre des monuments nationaux Vauclair castle La Rochelle Cathedral "The Chain Tower". frenchmoments.eu. French...
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    upkeep of around 85 monuments, ranging from the prehistoric megaliths at Carnac, medieval fortifications such as the towers at La Rochelle, and Renaissance...
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    The Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes (Latin: Dioecesis Rupellensis et Santonensis; French: Diocèse de La Rochelle et Saintes) is a Latin Church diocese...
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    Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Dubois also designed several public monuments erected in Romania: Monument to Ion C. Brătianu in Bucharest. Monument to George...
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  • New Rochelle (French: Nouvelle-Rochelle [la nuvɛl ʁoʃɛl] ) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the...
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    built the Musée d'Orbigny-Bernon in La Rochelle. From 1887 to 1889, he was a member of the Société des amis des monuments parisiens. From the age of 50, he...
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    then president of l'Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle) wrote as early as 1867 that Rainguet's estimate was wrong, the books...
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    be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France. A typical Galien-Laloue painting depicts sidewalks...
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  • presented by de Brosse, having promised him his protection. The following year, Jean Thiriot, then master mason, was to be met at La Rochelle on a building...
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    governorship of La Rochelle and Lord Provost and Captain of Niort, Talmont-sur-Gironde and Aigues-Mortes assured him revenues. From 1450 to 1460, Jean II de Chambes [fr]...
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  • This list includes notable people who were born in New Rochelle, New York, or lived there for a significant period of time. IN BUSINESS; A King-Size Fee...
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    1664 Tracy sailed from La Rochelle, France, with seven ships and 1,200 picked men of the Compagnie de la France équinoxiale led by La Barre. His first stop...
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    building on the Place Vendôme were classified as monuments historiques on 17 May 1930. The Hôtel Batailhe de Francès was combined with the neighbouring building...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province de Québec)
    ISBN 978-2-84736-113-1. La Rochelle, Louis (1982). En flagrant délit de pouvoir: chroniques des événements poliltiques, de Maurice Duplessis à René Lévesque...
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    Charente-Inférieure) during the territorial reorganization of 1790, until La Rochelle was designated and superseded it in 1810. Although it only had the status...
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  • "Mémoire sur une lettre inédite adressée à la reine Blanche par un habitant de La Rochelle," Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes 4th series, 2 (1856):...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    erecting monuments to military glory, including the Arc de Triomphe, and improved the neglected infrastructure of the city with new fountains, the Canal de l'Ourcq...
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    This is a list of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus. Argentina The holiday was changed from El día de la Raza (The Day of the Race) (1916)...
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    hundred acres with the help of Jacob Leisler. It was named New Rochelle after La Rochelle, their former strong-hold in France. A small wooden church was...
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    Niort has a railway station on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle, Gare de Niort. Direct TGV to Paris Montparnasse station takes 2 hours and...
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    Anne (1994). La cathédrale de Clermont (in French). Créer. ISBN 2-902894-94-5. Morvan, Yves (1995). "Des témoins ressuscités". Monuments historiques (in...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris. Wikiquote has quotations related to Notre-Dame de Paris. "Monument historique – PA00086250". Mérimée database of Monuments Historiques...
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    35 canvases listed as historical monuments, including masterpieces by artists such as Fra Bartolomeo, Jean-François de Troy, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and...
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    Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille or Cathédrale de la Major) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument of France. Located in Marseille...
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