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    Pont-Saint-Esprit (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ sɛ̃.t‿ɛspʁi], literally "Holy Spirit Bridge"; Occitan: Lo Pònt Sant Esperit) is a commune in the Gard département...
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  • Pont-Saint-Esprit The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, known in French as Le Pain Maudit, took place on 15 August 1951, in the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
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    upstream from Avignon, at what is now Pont-Saint-Esprit but then known as Saint-Saturnin-du-Port. The Pont-Saint-Esprit bridge originally had 20 arches and...
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  • The canton of Pont-Saint-Esprit is an administrative division of the Gard department, southern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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    known. Pont Saint-Bénézet (1177–1188) at Avignon, Vaucluse Pont-de-Saint-Nicolas de Campagnac (1261) at Sainte-Anastasie, Gard Roman Pont-du-Gard at...
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    Joseph Di Mambro (category People from Pont-Saint-Esprit)
    organization. Joseph Léonce Di Mambro was born 19 August 1924 in Pont-Saint-Esprit, a town in the Gard department of France, the oldest of three siblings...
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    Champ-de-Mars park. The square, then still called "Place du Roi de Rome", was linked to the Pont d'Iéna by a granite staircase. As early as 1876, there...
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    (2013). "Géoarchéologie du Rhône dans le secteur du pont Saint-Bénézet (Avignon, Provence, France) au cours de la seconde moitié du deuxième millénaire apr...
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    Crusade, handed the French crown land to the west of the Rhone from Pont-Saint-Esprit to the Mediterranean and a joint interest in the city of Avignon....
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    2 mi) from Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the north of the département of Gard. 14 km (8.7 mi) to the south-west starts the nearby Ardèche Gorges in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche...
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    Saint-Ours-du-Saint-Esprit changed its name to Saint-Esprit. 15 December: The Municipality of Saint-Éphrem-de-Tring became the Parish of Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce...
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    located on the territory of the commune. Chapelle Saint-Pierre Ancient Roman aqueduct. Vers-Pont-du-Gard is twinned with: Santa Vittoria d'Alba, Italy...
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  • Jehan d'Abundance (category People from Pont-Saint-Esprit)
    Jehan d'Abundance (Pont-Saint-Esprit, ? – c.1540) is the pseudonym of a French poet and author of farces. He also signed his works with the pen names...
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  • Jean-Pierre Chazal (category People from Pont-Saint-Esprit)
    Jean-Pierre Chazal, (born 1 March 1766 at Pont-Saint-Esprit, died 23 April 1840 at Brussels) was a French politician of the revolutionary era. Chazal...
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    kilometres (31 miles) away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which carried fresh water over...
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    Nîmes-3 Nîmes-4 Nîmes-5 Nîmes-6 Pont-Saint-Esprit Remoulins Rhôny-Vidourle Roquemaure Saint-Chaptes Saint-Gilles Saint-Mamert-du-Gard Sommières Uzès Vauvert...
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    Jardins du Trocadéro occupy the open space bounded to the northwest by the wings of the Palais de Chaillot and to the southeast by the Seine and the Pont d'Iéna...
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    Guillestre) Ouvèze (near Avignon) Cèze (in Codolet) Ardèche (in Pont-Saint-Esprit) Chassezac (in Saint-Alban-Auriolles) Drôme (in Loriol-sur-Drôme) Eyrieux (in...
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  • Boussargues, bailli of Viviers and Valence, and viguier of Bagnols and Pont-Saint-Esprit in Languedoc, acquired the estate of Luynes in the 16th century. The...
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    chartreux du Val-Saint-Esprit dans le démantèlement du château comtal de Gosnay (comté d’Artois, Pas-de-Calais) au début du XVIe siècle", in Bulletin du centre...
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  • Laval-Saint-Roman Lirac Montclus Montfaucon Orsan Le Pin Pont-Saint-Esprit La Roque-sur-Cèze Sabran Saint-Alexandre Saint-André-de-Roquepertuis Saint-André-d'Olérargues...
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    Saint-Gilles (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒil]; Provençal: Sant Geli; English: St. Giles) or Saint-Gilles-du-Gard is a commune in the Gard department in...
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    Montpellier Ordre du Saint-Esprit. In the fourteenth century, this Maison Magistrale Conventuelle et Hospitalière du Saint-Esprit à Auray, referred to...
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  • Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on Pont Saint-Michel. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence...
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    much wider Adour is to the north. The Pont Saint-Esprit connects Petit Bayonne with the Quartier Saint-Esprit across the Adour, where the massive Citadelle...
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    in Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Viviers see, Pont-Saint-Esprit with its 13th-century stonebridge over the Rhône at the confluence of Ardèche, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux...
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    again campaigned in the south of France, he captured the strategic Pont-Saint-Esprit which controlled the crossing of the Rhône, hoping to trap the Protestant...
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    du département de Vaucluse. C. Lacour. ISBN 284406051X. Girard, Alain (1997). Édisud (ed.). L'aventure gothique entre Pont-Saint-Esprit et Avignon du...
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    Chardonnet memorial (Pont de la République) Becquet bust (promenade Micaud) Le Témoin (Citadel of Besançon) La Charité (Temple du Saint-Esprit, Besançon) Statue...
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    Hospice du Saint-Esprit, on the Place de Grève. The flourishing of religious architecture in Paris was largely the work of Suger, the abbot of Saint-Denis...
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