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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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    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 of the...
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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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    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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    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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    Notre-Dame de Paris (French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on...
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    Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Marquis de Lafayette, statue of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette in Union Square, Manhattan, New York City Bartholdi's Lion of Belfort Vercingetorix...
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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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    po]) or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris), is a private and public...
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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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    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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    including Paris and all 123 communes in the surrounding inner-suburban departments of the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne)...
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    military parades are held in French garrison towns, including Toulon and Belfort, with local troops. Allied forces participate in the military parade Horseman...
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  • Paris Dauphine University - PSL (French: Université Paris Dauphine - PSL) is a Grande École and public institution of higher education and research based...
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    Thierry Burkhard (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures)
    Foreign Legion (13e DBLE) in Djibouti. A native of Delle, Territoire de Belfort, Burkhard enrolled at Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1985. After a year...
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    Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Les Eurockeennes, Belfort, Roskilde, Denmark and the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Paris. They also performed at the Jazz au Chellah...
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    "LA PORTE DE L'ENFER". Le Matin. Paris. Retrieved 25 October 2018. Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette (1999). Rodin:The Gates of Hell. Paris: Musée Rodin...
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    James, G. P. R. (1842). A history of the life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England. Paris. Lane-Poole, S. (1898). Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom...
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    ENS, Normale sup', Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University...
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    Juliet (2002). L'arsenal de Paris: histoire et chroniques (in French). L'Harmattan. p. 35. Ralph Schor, Histoire du Comté de Nice en 100 dates, Alandis...
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    Toulon at the end of August and in Paris on May 11, 1864. A first restoration was undertaken by Adrien Prévost de Longpérier, then curator of Antiquities...
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    Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed, 434 classés and 1,382 inscrits, in Paris. Abbreviations:...
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    nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was called "the Lion of Verdun" (French: le lion de Verdun). After the failed Nivelle Offensive and subsequent...
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    Vénus de Milo. Paris: Louvre éditions. ISBN 9-788412-154832. Pasquier, Alain (1985). La Vénus de Milo: Les Aphrodites du Louvre. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion...
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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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    century artist for having created Liberty Enlightening the World and the Lion of Belfort. Among many other, works by Bartholdi that can be seen in the museum...
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  • 43 Auvergne (3) v Vierzon FC (4) ASM Belfort (4) v Annecy (2) Brest (1) v Lens (1) US Pays de Cassel (6) v Paris Saint-Germain (1) The draw was made on...
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    Notre Dame de Paris, and were made to accompany a painting there, "The Vow of Louis XIII". They were manufactured between 1638 and 1657 in Paris by Pierre...
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    ultimately managed to get it postponed until April 1945. De Lattre's attack went ahead on 14 November. Belfort was taken on 25 November, but his attempt at encircling...
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    François Hollande (category HEC Paris alumni)
    University. Hollande studied at HEC Paris, graduated in 1975, and then attended the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the École nationale d'administration...
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