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    the seat of the Legislative Body, was stormed. Republican deputies Léon Gambetta and Jules Favre proclaimed the regime's fall and led the crowd to Paris...
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    there opened as early as 21 March 1878, inaugurated in the presence of Léon Gambetta. In 1882, the bank's head office was formally transferred from Lyon...
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    Freycinet drafted two decrees on March 29, 1880. He did so at the advice of Léon Gambetta and Jules Ferry. These decrees served to address the removal of Article...
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    French front on 6 August 1914, where she worked at the hospital on rue Léon-Gambetta. At the beginning of the hostilities, she was taken prisoner by the...
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    intersect at Place Gambetta, one linking La Madeleine Cemetery [fr], the Church of Saint-Acheul, Cagnard bridge, Rue de Noyon and Rue Jules-Barni; the other...
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    The Phantom of the Opera author Gaston Leroux, French prime minister Léon Gambetta, and the first president of the International Court of Justice José...
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    cut by the Germans on 27 September. On 6 October, Defense Minister Léon Gambetta departed the city by balloon to try to organise national resistance...
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    surrounded by the Germans. The leader of the provisional government, Léon Gambetta, had to escape from Paris by balloon. The Palais Bourbon was abandoned;...
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    Parieu 7 14 rue Las Cases 19 rue Saint-Dominique [1,161] Building 7 13 rue de Lille [1,162] Building 7 30 rue de Lille [1,163] Building 7 79 rue du Bac [1...
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    from Le Mans by TGV high speed train. There are also TGV connections to Lille, Marseille, Nantes, Rennes and Brest. Gare du Mans is also a hub for regional...
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    centuries architecture Toulouse-Matabiau station, 1905 Art nouveau facade, Gambetta street (early 20th c.) Art Deco facade, Alsace-Lorraine street (c. 1930)...
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    leaders identified as hostile to the Republic in files compiled by Léon Gambetta between 1876 and 1878 with the assistance of Freemason networks. On...
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    Robespierre. De la Nation artésienne à la République et aux Nations [Online]. Lille: Publications de l'Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, 1994...
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    perimeter, Nicholson ordered a retirement to the Marck canal and Avenue Léon Gambetta; during the night, the defenders retreated to the Old Town and the area...
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    Charles de Gaulle (category Politicians from Lille)
    later that year, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. Born in Lille, he was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times...
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    with the assistance of Freemasonry. These “Gambetta papers”, named after the radical politician Léon Gambetta — who had them constituted for the use of...
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    March 2003). "Éric Weil: A Biography". Institut Eric Weil-Université de Lille. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018...
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    Agde station has high-speed rail direct connections northbound to Paris, Lille, Geneva, southbound to Perpignan as well as Spain. Agde has regional services...
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    Alsace (1604–1763) Jesuit college in Cahors (1604–1762), now Collège Gambetta [fr] Royal College of Henry IV [fr] in La Flèche (1604–1762), now Prytanée...
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