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    Sark (section Seigneur)
    mine went bankrupt, le Pelley was unable to keep up the mortgage payments and, in 1849, his son Pierre Carey le Pelley, the new Seigneur, was forced to sell...
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    Hôtel de Gallifet
    Madeleine de Léotard d’Entrages to Simon Alexandre Jean de Galliffet, seigneur du Tholonet from 1716-1793. He was head of the eldest branch of the Gallifet...
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    Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park (redirect from Parc national du Mont-Saint-Bruno)
    streams, all of them part of the Richelieu River watershed. The du Moulin, Seigneurial and des Bouleaux lakes are used for the municipal water supply of...
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    Bas-Saint-Laurent (section Rivière-du-Loup)
    late 17th century; France made land concessions to settlers under the Seigneurial system of New France to encourage colonization. However, development...
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