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    Pontgibaud (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ʒibo]) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. It is located in the Massif Central...
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    fonderies de Pontgibaud (Pontgibaud Mine & Foundry Company) was a French silver and lead mining and smelting company based in Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme...
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    Motier de La Fayette (1380 – 22 February 1463) Seigneur of La Fayette, Pontgibaud, Ayes, Nébouzac, Saint-Romain and Montel-de-Gelat was a Marshal of France...
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    Château-Dauphin is a medieval castle in the commune of Pontgibaud in the Puy-de-Dôme département of France. The castle owes its name to the coat of arms...
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    1949 film Fabiola. He died in 1959 of a heart attack. He is buried in Pontgibaud, in the Puy-de-Dôme department. Source : Les Gens du cinéma Henri Vidal...
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  • of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was born at Pontgibaud, the daughter of Elie Mayade, a blacksmith, and his wife Félicie, a dressmaker...
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    Insect house in Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, France...
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    Clermont Ferrand to Limoges. La Goutelle is part of the canton of Pontgibaud, and like Pontgibaud relied on mining as its major source of income until the early...
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    Luzillat, Robert married Beatrice of Montgascon, lady of Montgascon and Pontgibaud, daughter of Faucon III of Montgascon and his wife Isabel of Ventadour...
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    Goutenoutouze (b. 1355) Marguerite Catherine Brun du Peschin, dame de Pontgibaud Guillaume Motier de Champetières, seigneur de Champetières (1360–1418)...
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    underground and are not usually attracted to bee hotels. Insect house in Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme, France Insect hotel in the botanical garden of Wuppertal...
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    Pessat-Villeneuve Picherande Pignols Pionsat Plauzat Pont-du-Château Pontaumur Pontgibaud Pouzol Les Pradeaux Prompsat Prondines Pulvérières Puy-Guillaume Puy-Saint-Gulmier...
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    Munitions de Issy-les-Moulineaux. P S.A. Des Mines et Fonderies de Pontgibaud (?-1897) – Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme department, Auvergne region, France. Manufactured...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Donnet (28 September 1923 in Pontgibaud (Puy-de-Dôme) – 30 November 2014 in Sentheim (Haut-Rhin)) was a French chemist who is noted as a...
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    Montauban, Royan and Montpellier. After fighting a duel against the Comte de Pontgibaud, he killed the Marquis de Portes in 1625. Dueling had long been forbidden...
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    production was the processing of argentiferous lead (argentiferous galena) (Pontgibaud mines, Puy de Dôme, Pont-Péan mine, Ille-et-Vilaine); La Baume mine at...
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    awarded the Comte de Pontgibaud a gold medal for his mining enterprise, the precursor of the Société des mines et fonderies de Pontgibaud. Robert Flavigny...
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  • Ploërmel Poitiers, Vienne Poligny, Jura Pommiers, Loire Pont-de-l'Arche Pontgibaud Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult Pontoise Pouilly-lès-Feurs Prades-le-Lez Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste...
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    generally northeast through the following departments and towns: Puy-de-Dôme: Pontgibaud Allier: Ébreuil, Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule The Sioule flows into the river...
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    Pessat-Villeneuve Picherande Pignols Pionsat Plauzat Pont-du-Château Pontaumur Pontgibaud Pouzol Les Pradeaux Prompsat Prondines Pulvérières Puy-Guillaume Puy-Saint-Gulmier...
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  • De Nervo was vice-president of the Société des mines et fonderies de Pontgibaud in 1953. He was also a vice president of the Ateliers et Chantiers de...
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    Plauzat 63283 63380 Pontaumur 63284 63430 Pont-du-Château 63285 63230 Pontgibaud 63286 63440 Pouzol 63287 63500 Les Pradeaux 63288 63200 Prompsat 63289...
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    laminoirs de Couëron merged with the Société des mines et fonderies de Pontgibaud. The Couëron facility had 350 employees in 1879, 555 in 1884 and 1,200...
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    one-time mayor of Berkeley, California. He was born on January 17, 1874, in Pontgibaud, France. For many years around the turn of the century, he was the editor...
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    Pessat-Villeneuve Picherande Pignols Pionsat Plauzat Pont-du-Château Pontaumur Pontgibaud Pouzol Les Pradeaux Prompsat Prondines Pulvérières Puy-Guillaume Puy-Saint-Gulmier...
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  • Landogne Lastic Messeix Miremont Montel-de-Gelat Montfermy Pontaumur Pontgibaud Prondines Pulvérières Puy-Saint-Gulmier Saint-Avit Saint-Étienne-des-Champs...
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    turbine - with a vertical axis - was installed in 1825 in a mill located in Pontgibaud; it had an energy efficiency of 67%. He became a corresponding member...
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    Resistance members at Clermont-Ferrand on 1 June 1977. He is buried at Pontgibaud, Puy-de-Dôme. Two years after his death, one of the organisations he had...
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  • together with Poullaouen and Huelgoat in Finistère, Vialas in Lozère, Pontgibaud in Puy-de-Dôme and Pontpéan in Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most important...
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