Tonnay-Charente (French pronunciation: [tɔnɛ ʃaʁɑ̃t]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France...
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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (redirect from Françoise-Athénaïs de Tonnay-Charente)
later adopted the name "Athénaïs"), or more formally, Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente, possessed the blood of two of the oldest noble families of France...
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The canton of Tonnay-Charente is an administrative division of the Charente-Maritime department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French...
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conditions. Towns and villages include Vergeroux, Soubise, Rochefort and Tonnay-Charente on the tidal river, and Saint-Savinien, Taillebourg, Saintes, Cognac...
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Charente-Maritime (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɑ̃t maʁitim] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Chérente-Marine; Occitan: Charanta Maritima) is a département in the...
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commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, located in the administrative...
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The following is a list of the 463 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as...
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de, respectively, Bidache (Gramont), Marcillac (La Rochefoucauld), Tonnay-Charente (Mortemart), Poix (Noailles), Léon (Rohan-Chabot), etc. The original...
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in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime...
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elevated him in 1663 to the title of Duke of Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente and Peer of France, also making him governor of Paris and the Île de...
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La Rochelle (redirect from La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime)
Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With 78,535 inhabitants in 2021, La Rochelle is the...
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Aunis (category Geography of Charente-Maritime)
autonome ("self-governing port"). Rochefort and Tonnay-Charente developed port activities on the river Charente. The two towns have diverse industrial activities...
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The Canton of Tonnay-Boutonne is a former canton of the Charente-Maritime department in France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation...
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guns (designed and built by Jean-Pierre Brun, launched April 1669 at Tonnay-Charente) – renamed Souverain in June 1671, then renamed Admirable in June 1678...
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gallery of the Louvre are the Angel and Hagar, from the mansion of De Tonnay Charente; Tobias and Tobit, from the Fieubet collection; several pictures executed...
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I. He was motoring with his wife and two stepsons, the princes de Tonnay-Charente, when the accident happened. The countess was bruised but otherwise...
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the year, Edward also captured Poitiers and the towns surrounding Tonnay-Charente. For his role in the Battle of Crécy, Edward, the Black Prince, Philippe...
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period. In 1738, Dr. Jennings and Eleanor left Ireland and settled in Tonnay-Charente in south-west France. In 1751, when Eleanor became pregnant, she left...
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(22 March 1881 - 16 March 1918), Marquis of Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente, was a French World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories...
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Rochefort-Martrou Transporter Bridge (category Monuments historiques of Charente-Maritime)
ports of Rochefort and Tonnay-Charente. It is the last transporter bridge in operation in France. Crossing the river Charente, it has a maximum height...
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Saint-Porchaire Saintes Saintonge Estuaire Saujon Surgères Thénac Tonnay-Charente La Tremblade Les Trois Monts Décret n° 2014-269 du 27 février 2014...
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March 1787, Paris – 1 January 1875, Neauphle-le-Vieux), prince of Tonnay-Charente, then Baron of Mortemart and of the Empire, 11th duke of Mortemart...
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Royan-Ouest, Saint-Agnant, Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, Saint-Porchaire, Saujon, Tonnay-Charente, and La Tremblade. At the time of the 1999 census (which was the basis...
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Colbert on 14 February 1679 and had issue; known as the prince de Tonnay-Charente; his descendants include the present Duke of Noailles and the present...
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Tonnay-Boutonne (French pronunciation: [tɔnɛ butɔn]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern...
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Arrondissement of Rochefort (category Arrondissements of Charente-Maritime)
Saint-Trojan-les-Bains (17411) Soubise (17429) Surgères (17434) Le Thou (17447) Tonnay-Charente (17449) La Tremblade (17452) Vaux-sur-Mer (17461) Vergeroux (17463)...
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List of SNCF stations in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (redirect from List of SNCF stations in Poitou-Charentes)
Saint-Jean-d'Angely Saint-Laurent-Fouras Saint-Savinien Saujon Surgères Tonnay-Charente Villeneuve-la-Comtesse Allassac Aubazine-Saint-Hilaire Brive-la-Gaillarde...
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workers from the Low Countries; by about 1610 the area between Muron and Tonnay-Charente had come to be known as the Marais de la Petite-Flandre, the "marsh...
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Taillebourg where the inevitable clash took place. Henry advanced to Tonnay-Charente by mid-July and Louis moved to Saint-Jean-d'Angély, just north of Taillebourg...
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(jumelée in French) arrangement with the town of Tonnay-Charente in the western French département of Charente-Maritime although the relationship was reported...
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