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    Faubourg-Saint-Denis Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Book 4: The Idyll of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis. [1] Not Wanted on the Rue Saint-Denis...
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    The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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    Hugh of Saint Victor (c. 1096 – 11 February 1141) was a Saxon canon regular and a leading theologian and writer on mystical theology. As with many medieval...
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    Maison de Victor Hugo (English: Victor Hugo's House) is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848. It...
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    violence linked with the July Revolution of 1830. The French author Victor Hugo memorialized the rebellion in his 1862 novel Les Misérables, and it figures...
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    The Porte Saint-Denis (English: St. Denis Gate) is a Parisian monument located in the 10th arrondissement, at the site of one of the gates of the Wall...
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    hall of Saint-Ouen. Line 13 station is located under Place de la République, at the intersection of Avenue Gabriel-Péri, Boulevard Victor-Hugo and Boulevard...
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    model itself became a recognisable construction and was immortalised by Victor Hugo in his novel Les Misérables (1862) in which it is used as a shelter by...
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    [ɡavʁɔʃ]) is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a...
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    the 12th century a leprosarium was founded on the road from Paris to Saint-Denis at the boundary of a marshy area near River Seine. It was ceded on 7...
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    lindens. Residents of the Place des Vosges No. 1bis: Madame de Sevigné was born here No. 6 (Maison de Victor Hugo): Victor Hugo's home from 1832 to 1848...
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    St. Jack Fountain (Fontaine Saint-Jacques), in rue Denis Papin; Corbigny Fountain (Fontaine de Corbigny), in Victor Hugo Square ; Simple Fountain (Fontaine...
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    Léonie d'Aunet (category Hugo family)
    prison at Saint-Lazare. After two months, she was transferred to the Convent of the Ladies of Saint Michael, where Adèle Foucher (wife of Victor Hugo), who...
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    one of the legs. However, only a full-scale plaster model was built. Victor Hugo immortalized the monument in the novel Les Misérables where it is used...
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    the French Revolution, and afterwards were transferred to the Abbey of Saint Denis, where they are found today. During the French Revolution, on 2 September...
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    Jean Valjean (French: [ʒɑ̃ val.ʒɑ̃]) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The story depicts the character's struggle to lead...
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    16:30 Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 77,000 Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland) 8 July 1998 21:00 Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 76,000 Referee:...
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    des Bourbons [fr] to be built behind the chancel of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the French monarch's necropolis since ancient times. Several projects...
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    Casino Saint-Jacques Hospital Astronomical clock Saint-Pierre church Saint-François-Xavier church Citadel of Besançon Alviset Hotel Place Victor Hugo Theatre...
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    Panthéon (category Articles with MusicBrainz place identifiers)
    a decree was passed to transform the Church of Saint Genevieve into a mausoleum again. Victor Hugo was the first to be placed in the crypt afterwards...
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    portrayed by Victor Hugo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831). The "Grand Court of Miracles" described by Victor Hugo, a gathering place for beggars who...
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    francs in total Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables (English language), Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition, 481 Les misérables, Volume IV, Saint Denis, Book Second...
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    d'Aumont Hôtel de Beauvais Hôtel de Sens Hôtel de Sully Place des Vosges, including the home of Victor Hugo and Café Ma Bourgogne Maison européenne de la photographie...
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    by Marivaux (1989), La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo (1990), Le Misanthrope by Molière, and Bérénice by Racine (1992), Les...
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    to take pictures of the Eiffel Tower. The Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre is also where the Paris Saint-Germain F.C. celebrates its French championships...
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    conferences took place on the margins of the exposition, including the first congress on intellectual property, led by Victor Hugo, whose proposals led...
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    Franco-Libanais Habbouche-Nabatieh Frankfurt, Lycée Français Victor Hugo Hamburg, Lycée Français Antoine de Saint-Exupéry de Hambourg Hanoi, Lycée français Alexandre...
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    Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince...
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    bandstand was raised in its place. The Grand-Place attracted many famous visitors during that period, among them Victor Hugo, who resided in the Le Pigeon...
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    Jardin du Luxembourg (category Articles with MusicBrainz place identifiers)
    back of the Medici Fountain. The gardens are featured prominently in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables. It is here that the principal love story of the...
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