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    The Lion of Belfort, in Belfort, France, is an 1880 monumental sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty...
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    The Lion of Belfort (French: Le lion de Belfort) is a monument at Dorchester Square in Downtown Montreal. The Lion of Belfort is a reclining British Imperial...
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    (16 mi) from the Swiss border. It is the prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort. Belfort is 400 km (250 mi) from Paris and 55 km (34 mi) from Basel. The residents...
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    The Territoire de Belfort (French pronunciation: [tɛʁitwaʁ də bɛlfɔʁ] ; lit. "Territory of Belfort") is a department in the northeastern French region...
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    defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him the soubriquet The Lion of Belfort (French: le lion de Belfort). Born in an upper-class...
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    northern point. However, the cross form was altered first when the Lion of Belfort fountain was disconnected and moved further south along Metcalfe Street...
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    organized the defense at the siege of Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). It is dominated by the Lion of Belfort statue (a smaller version of the...
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    Château de Présilly, in Présilly Château de Pymont, in Villeneuve-sous-Pymont Château de Syam, in Champagnole Château de Belfort, in Belfort Château du...
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    Étienne Mattler (category Footballers from the Territoire de Belfort)
    footballer, nicknamed Le Lion de Belfort, who played as a defender. Mattler, born in Belfort, played for the clubs US Belfort (1921–1927), AS Troyes (1927–1929)...
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  • manager Conrad Ross, as well as captain Étienne Mattler, known as Le Lion de Belfort, and strikers Roger Courtois and Bernard Williams, Sochaux dominated...
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    1880, the monumental Lion of Belfort sculpture was inaugurated in tribute to the defenders of the city. Fortified region of Belfort Bodart 1908, p. 571...
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    Paris in World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    uprising from a bunker twenty-six meters beneath the statue of the Lion de Belfort, Place Denfert-Rochereau, which communicated with the catacombs. Parisians...
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    region of Belfort (place fortifiée de Belfort) formed the first line of defense in the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in the Belfort Gap. Located...
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  • December 2020. "Le lion de Belfort". Art Public Montréal. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2020. "Le Lion de la Feuillée"...
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    Winds 2009: Zodiac 2010: Geuzen Medal Fanfare 2010: Liberty 2010: Le Lion de Belfort 2010: Pierius Magnus 2011: Musica Helvetica 2011: Springsong 2012:...
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    dirigé la défense de la ville de Belfort pendant la guerre franco-allemande de 1870, ce qui lui a valu le surnom de "Lion de Belfort". "Répertoire national...
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  • Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his...
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    disbanded on 29 June 2010. SPA 37 "Charognard" SPA 81 "Lévrier" SPA 92 "Lion de Belfort" BA 194 Nha Trang BA 136 Friedrichshafen BA 136 Bremgarten BA 116 Luxeuil-Saint...
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  • are minted by Monnaie de Paris, which is a state owned industrial and commercial company. "Actual mintage according to Monnaie de Paris" (PDF).[permanent...
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    Georges Diebolt (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    creator of (among other works) the Statue of Liberty in New York and the Lion de Belfort, and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824–1910), who sculpted the Joan of Arc in...
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    Boulevard (demolished in 1961). He also designed the base for Montreal's Lion of Belfort monument in Dorchester Square. Findlay was responsible for the design...
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    Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    heroism in the defense against Germany. Among these projects was the Lion of Belfort, which he started working on in 1871, not finishing the massive sandstone...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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  • Ernst's example for this element is the Lion of Belfort; consequently, this section features numerous characters with lion heads. The element of the next section...
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    Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built...
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    appearing at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Les Eurockeennes, Belfort, Roskilde, Denmark and the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Paris. They also...
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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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  • professional debut with Annecy in a 1–1 (4–3) penalty shootout win over ASM Belfort on 22 January 2023. Born in France, Ntamack is of Cameroonian descent....
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  • Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead...
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    Raimundo Teixeira Belfort Roxo. While serving as General Construction and Building Inspector for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Belfort Roxo, together with...
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