Rue du Pré de la Bataille (section Rue odonym)
This decision is remarkable because, as Pierre-Henri Billy points out, odonyms "formed in contemporary times to recall medieval places [...] are extremely...
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Place de la Bastille (category Odonyms referring to a building)
areas are normally called simply Bastille. The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution (1830) stands at...
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and 69 injured on the side of the forces of order. A local odonym (“Place du 30-Juillet-1908”) recalls these events. The next day, Georges Clemenceau...
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