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    steam railway. During World War II, Pithiviers was the location of the infamous Pithiviers internment camp. The pithivier, a kind of pie, is said to originate...
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    operate a light railway linking Pithiviers and the surrounding villages to Toury. There were sugar refineries at Pithiviers and Toury, and the line connected...
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    office of Pithiviers (Loiret). It was in the course of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 that she became famous. The Prussians occupied Pithiviers on September...
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    corresponds to the arrondissements of Montargis and a large part of Pithiviers, in Loiret. Pithiviers has for several centuries been the most representative town...
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    Transports de Pithiviers. Two Decauville railcars, ex Savoie lines, acquired second hand in 1936. Numbered DC11 and 12. Sold to the Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury...
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    Bonneval, Cloyes, Étampes, Châtres, Montlhéry, Pithiviers-en-Gatinais, Larchant, Milly-la-Forêt, Château-Landon, and Montargis. Meanwhile, Robert Knolles...
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    rôle des camps de Pithiviers et de Beaune-la-Rolande dans l'internement et la déportation des Juifs de France" [The role of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande...
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    Loiret (category Departments of Centre-Val de Loire)
    Château d'Augerville, Château de Bellegarde, Château de Gien, Château du Hallier, Château de Meung-sur-Loire, Château de Sully-sur-Loire and Château de...
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  • relics were transported to Pithiviers, but burned by the Huguenots in 1580. The remains preserved by Christians from Pithiviers were brought back to the...
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  • title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French D'un château l'autre. The book features Céline's experiences in exile with the Vichy...
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    exceptionally fertile land around Beauce) and relaunching saffron farming at Pithiviers. Later, during the Renaissance, the city benefited from its becoming fashionable...
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    Intervilles game show against opponent town Moulins. The Musée Girodet [fr] and Château de Montargis [fr] are among the town's main sights. Eleanor of Leicester...
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    "Rentrée littéraire - Avec Pierre Assouline, Sigmaringen, c'est la vie de château !" [Autumn publishing season launch - With Pierre Assouline, Sigmaringen...
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  • de Chambéry Musée des Charmettes Musée savoisien Muséum d'histoire naturelle Conflans Musée d'ethnographie et d'histoire Annecy Musée-château Château...
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    Brice, to whom the parish church is dedicated. The Château de Saint-Brisson [fr], built by the de Sancerre family in the early 13th century on the site...
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    responsible for building Château de Beaugency, which as originally a wooden structure, later replaced with a stone one by Lancelin I de Beaugency, the first...
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    Macaron (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of a macaron to that of a hamburger). McCafé macarons are produced by Château Blanc, which, like Ladurée, is a subsidiary of Groupe Holder, though they...
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    a transit and deportation center for Jews closely associated with the Pithiviers internment camp. Eighteen thousand Jews were held at Beaune-la-Rolande;...
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    created to intern Romani people Les Tourelles in Paris Pithiviers transit camp in Pithiviers. Jewish novelist Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) was interned...
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    Tramway de Pithiviers à Toury Chemin de fer du Finistère Chemin de fer des Côtes-du-Nord Chemins de fer armoricains Chemins de fer du Morbihan Île de Ré Réseau...
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    who is buried on the grounds of his château. The family of the dukes of Sully retained ownership of the château until the 20th century. King Louis XIV...
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    This page lists the châteaux of the French Centre-Val de Loire region. The buildings are arranged by Department. Areas, United States American Commission...
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    in north-central France. The commune is traversed by the river Ouanne. Château de Châteaurenard Communes of the Loiret department "Répertoire national des...
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    family then departed to the Château de Montceaux on 14 May, before Catherine decided to send her children to the Château de Vincennes for their security...
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  • Pithiviers-le-Vieil (French pronunciation: [pitivje lə vjɛj]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. Communes of the Loiret department...
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    Paris in World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    stairway on a wooden ramp to be put on a truck for its departure to the Château de Valençay in the Indre department. Trucks used to move scenery for the...
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  • The 2016–17 Coupe de France First preliminary rounds comprised the first rounds of the 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds. The competition was...
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    large cereal area with a gentle slope. It is located 7 km northwest of Pithiviers, and 40 km northeast of Orléans. The departmental roads 22, 23 et 134...
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    August 1944, the Germans took Pétain, against his will, from Vichy to the château de Morvillars near Belfort. After two years at the head of the Vichy regime...
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    Philippe Pétain (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    government were already set on an armistice. On 11 June, Churchill flew to the Château du Muguet, at Briare, near Orléans, where he put forward first his idea...
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