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    Mauvages (French pronunciation: [movaʒ]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The name Mauvages, mentioned for the...
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    the orders of Napoleon. The tunnel remains in use, and can be traversed using a chain boat. Along with the Mauvages tunnel, on the Marne–Rhine Canal, it...
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    is still in military hands but the underlying tunnels can be visited. Verdun Cathedral (Notre-Dame de Verdun) was consecrated in 1147 but was built on...
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  • killing 22 people. January 22 – France – At Mauvages, between Neufchâteau and Toul on the Chemins de fer de l'Est, a collision kills 20 and injures 40...
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    width. It has 154 locks, including two in the Moselle. There are four tunnels. The Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane is located between Arzviller...
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    Electric boat (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    is docked at the opposite terminal to its tethering point. In the Mauvages tunnel [fr] on the Marne-Rhine Canal a bipolar overhead line provides 600 V...
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    French and German tunneling units fired 519 separate mines at Vauquois, and the German gallery network beneath the village hill (the Butte de Vauquois) grew...
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