Pont-Croix (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ kʁwa]; Breton: Pontekroaz) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The town...
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Cécile Corbel (born 28 March 1980, in Pont-Croix, Finistère, France) is a French and Breton singer, harpist, and composer. She has released five albums...
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Pont-Aven (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃t‿avɛn]; lit. 'River Bridge' in Breton) is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in Northwestern...
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so-called Youtar was a small-gauge railway out of Dounarnenez to Audierne via Pont-Croix. Inaugurated in 1894, it was shut down in 1936 during the Great Depression...
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war memorial". Retrieved 8 December 2014. "Pont Croix war memorial". Retrieved 8 December 2014. "Pont Croix war memorial". Retrieved 8 December 2014. "Saint-Pol-de-Léon...
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Riou. Jean Marie Le Bris married Jeanne Louise Alexandrine Kerisit in Pont-Croix on 18 February 1844. After Jeanne Louise passed away in March 1854, he...
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Saint Croix Island (French: Île Sainte-Croix), long known to locals as Dochet Island (/ˈduʃeɪ/), is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth...
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Additionally, it looks visually identical to the coat of arms of Bourg-la-Reine. Pont de Recouvrance (Recouvrance Bridge, is a massive drawbridge 64 m/210 ft high)...
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chaplain at the Lycée à l'Harteloire in Brest. In 1962, he was ordained in Pont-Croix after spending two years in meditation at Landévennec Abbey. In 1965,...
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Pont-l'Abbé (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ labe]; Breton: Pont-'n-Abad, "Abbot's bridge") is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western...
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département of Finistère in Brittany, corresponding to the former canton of Pont-Croix. The best known sites in this region are the pointe du Raz, the pointe...
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Notre-Dame-de-Roscudon is a Catholic church in Pont-Croix, in the French department of Finistère. Built from the 13th century through successive additions...
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Illiers-Combray, France Riva di Solto, Italy Solto Collina, Italy Constantine Pont-Croix, France Corby Châtellerault, France Shijiazhuang, China Velbert, Germany...
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Landerneau (redirect from Pont de Rohan)
(the Pont de Rohan) across the Elorn. The Pont de Rohan was the most downstream crossing of the Elorn River until 1930 and the construction of the Pont Albert...
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Plouyé Plouzané Plouzévédé Plovan Plozévet Pluguffan Pont-Aven Pont-Croix Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Pont-l'Abbé Porspoder Port-Launay Pouldergat Pouldreuzic...
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Peter Paul Rubens, along with canvases by such Pont-Aven School painters as Émile Bernard, Maurice Denis, Georges Lacombe, Maxime...
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with the Croix de guerre, and shortly after this Désiré Ferry, the local deputy, was awarded the Légion d'honneur. After World War II, Pont-à-Mousson...
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Plouyé Plouzané Plouzévédé Plovan Plozévet Pluguffan Pont-Aven Pont-Croix Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Pont-l'Abbé Porspoder Port-Launay Pouldergat Pouldreuzic...
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village is twinned with Pont-Croix, Département Finistère. In Breton, "Pont-Croix" is "Pont-e-kroaz" and, colloquially, "Ar Pont". A British School was...
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Ouessant voit son sang / Qui voit Sein voit sa fin / Qui voit Groix voit sa croix." ("Who sees Molène sees his pains (or penalty) / who sees Ushant sees his...
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Douarnenez (seat) Goulien Île-de-Sein Le Juch Kerlaz Mahalon Plogoff Plouhinec Pont-Croix Pouldergat Primelin Poullan-sur-Mer Cantons of the Finistère department...
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ramassage du goémon"). From 1923 to 1948, he worked as the registrar of Pont-Croix but continued to paint and was a leading figure in the Quimper intellectual...
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Communist and Holocaust survivor. Magadur was born on 21 April 1899 in Pont-Croix in Finistère, France. Her father was a miller and she was the fourth child...
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and Douarnenez, before doing his secondary studies in Saint-Vincent de Pont-Croix, Saint-Yves de Quimper and Saint-Grégoire de Tours, in 1942. There, he...
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(Holland) Evening chat. (Holland) Intérieur Causerie du soir Paneakes at Pont-Croix The old chaps (Holland) On the dyke (Holland) "Mairie de Paris, Naissances...
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Plouyé Plouzané Plouzévédé Plovan Plozévet Pluguffan Pont-Aven Pont-Croix Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Pont-l'Abbé Porspoder Port-Launay Pouldergat Pouldreuzic...
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Plouyé Plouzané Plouzévédé Plovan Plozévet Pluguffan Pont-Aven Pont-Croix Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Pont-l'Abbé Porspoder Port-Launay Pouldergat Pouldreuzic...
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Tour de France when he was called to the priesthood. He studied at the Pont-Croix minor seminary, then entered the Quimper major seminary in 1847. He was...
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