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    municipalities of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to form the new municipality of Val de Bagnes. With an area of 282 km2 (108.88 sq mi), Bagnes used to be the...
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    be kept on land in the bagnes, guarded halls, or other places which will be designated for their confinement." The name 'bagne' came from the Italian...
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    there were the port bagnes (or maritime bagnes). Not all convicts in the penal system were sentenced to forced labor. The word "bagne" comes from the Italian...
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    Val de Bagnes, also called the Vallée de Bagnes (German: Bangital or Baniental) is a valley located in the Entremont District in the Canton of Valais of...
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    Val de Bagnes is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is named after the eponymous Val de Bagnes. On 1...
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    Drance (redirect from Drance de Bagnes)
    Confluence Ferret & Entremont Confluence Entremont & Bagnes Mouth Dranse de Bagnes The Dranse de Bagnes at Lac de Mauvoisin with fluvial sediment build-up...
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    Valais) and Italy (region of Aosta Valley). It lies between the valleys of Bagnes and Valpelline, on the main Alpine watershed. It overlooks the Fenêtre de...
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    prisoners in pairs, held in chains aboard galley hulks (bagnes) moored in French harbours, until the bagnes rotted and sank. The prisoners were transferred to...
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    Verbier (category Bagnes)
    conditions, and resort culture. Verbier is located in the municipality of Val de Bagnes in the Swiss canton of Valais. The village lies on a south oriented terrace...
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    Jean-Pierre Perraudin (1767–1858) explained erratic boulders in the Val de Bagnes in the Swiss canton of Valais as being due to glaciers previously extending...
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    prisoners from the Bagne of Toulon in one of his early stories, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive...
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  • Persicula bagne is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. Faber, M.J. (2006). "The genera...
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    (LAMMP) 2001 Rolly Bagnes (Lakas-CMD) Sonny Tapia (Lakas-CMD) Juan Unico (Lakas-CMD) 2004 Ramil Hernandez (Lakas-CMD) Rolly Bagnes (Lakas-CMD) Sonny Tapia...
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    lines include the section from Montsinéry-Tonnegrande to the so-called bagne des Annamites, the section from Saint-Élie to the Saut du Tigre labor camp...
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    Val de Bagnes to the Valpelline snow 3,242 10,637 Col de Seilon Val de Bagnes to the Val d'Hérémence snow 3,200 10,499 Col du Cret Val de Bagnes to the...
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    continued until 1873, when the last bagne in France (as opposed to the bagnes relocated to French Guiana), the bagne of Toulon, closed definitively. In...
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  • refer to: River Gele, a river in Wales Mont Gelé (Bagnes), a mountain on the border between Bagnes, Valais, in Switzerland and Valle d'Aosta in Italy...
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    Brest Prison (redirect from Bagne de Brest)
    The Brest Prison (French - bagne de Brest) was a 254m long prison in Brest, France. It was built between 1749 and 1751 by Antoine Choquet de Lindu, dominating...
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  • Albert Londres (redirect from Au Bagne)
    prisoners. It crushes them, that's all, and the pieces go where they may. (Au bagne, 1923) And the article continued: "I was taken to these places. I was taken...
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  • Parisien , 6 October 1925 Gérard de Villiers, Papillon épinglé – La vérité sur le bagne et sur le Venezuela, Presses de la cité, 1970, ASIN B000EHVA62...
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    that an ice dam formed below a tongue of the Giétro Glacier in the Val de Bagnes, creating a lake. Despite engineer Ignaz Venetz's efforts to drain the growing...
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    incarcerated within the "bagne", or penal colonies. Within the Southern Hemisphere, it worked in New Caledonia (which had a bagne too until the end of the...
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    departure of prisoners for the Bagne of Toulon in Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné. He went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive notes...
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    It lies west of the Pigne d'Arolla, on the range between the valley of Bagnes and the valley of Arolla. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps...
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    infrastructure of early Rochefort from 1766 was its bagne, a high-security penal colony involving hard labour. Bagnes were then common fixtures in military harbors...
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  • anniversary in 2025. In 1815, French prisoner Jean Valjean is released from the Bagne of Toulon after a nineteen-year sentence for stealing bread. His paroled...
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    Mauvoisin Dam (category Bagnes)
    Dam is a concrete variable radius arch dam across the Val de Bagnes on the Dranse de Bagnes stream, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Initial construction...
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  • This list contains all cultural property of regional significance (class B) in the canton of Valais from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property...
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    Valais, south of Verbier between the Val d'Entremont (west) and Val de Bagnes (west). The north-western facing side of Grand Combin is entirely covered...
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    Lac de Mauvoisin (category Bagnes)
    by 13.5 metres (44 ft) in 1991. The reservoir lies in the upper Val de Bagnes, between the massif of the Grand Combin, one of the highest mountains of...
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