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  • :France had lost the Alsace-Lorraine region to Germany following the ... France had suffered very heavy casualties during the war (some 1.24 ...
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  • a large pedestrian square in Nancy, Lorraine, France. Built between the Old Town in the north and the New Town in the south ...
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  • to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop ... Located in central France along the Yèvre River, Bourges is the capital ...
    11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
  • most dominant artists and art theorists of France during the seventeenth century ... employed by several political figures in France. These included Chancellor ...
    12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
  • France was a socialist who supported liberal causes. He was a signatory ... The son of a bookseller, France, a bibliophile, [https://web.archive ...
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  • departement of Meuse) France. He first trained as a military ... before his death, he was invited back to France by Napoleon Bonaparte and ...
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  • Festival is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres from all around the world. It is one of the "Big ...
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  • In 1669, King Louis XIV of France, anxious to obtain Cassini's ... In 1673, he became a French citizen. While in France, Cassini also ...
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  • that eventually became standard throughout France. A strong proponent of reading ... venture led to the founding, in 1680, of a new order, the Institute of the ...
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  • of birth was no protection, to inform new notions about social and political ... army which was then preparing to leave for France. He was present at the Battle ...
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  • who conducted excavations in Egypt’s New Kingdom capital of Tanis, ... Pierre Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône in France. He studied ...
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  • Pierre de Coubertin was born in Paris, France, on January 1, 1863 ... part of the general educational strategy for France. Coubertin was ...
    10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
  • was set in the context of post-Revolution France, and the struggle between ... Denis-Auguste Affre was born at Saint Rome-de-Tam in France into a ...
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  • are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the George Eastman House ... After Atget's death, she arranged for New York's Museum of Modern ...
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  • * Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France ... |Mayotte (overseas territory of France)||Mamoudzou |- |Morocco||Rabat ...
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  • in the defense of the capital of New France, the fortified Quebec City ... Paris that eventually conceded most of New France to the British Empire. ...
    12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
  • a claim such as "The present King of France is bald" into a conjunction ... So the sentence, "The present king of France is bald," is meaningful ...
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  • norm) is a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean ... famous for fine wine as other regions of France, its official status is now ...
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  • 1777, before even leaving Martinique for France. In service to their aunt ... of Joséphine. In June 1795, thanks to a new law, she was allowed to recover ...
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  • in both World War I and World War II. New materials developed by the ... . They were a distinguished family in France with connections to Louis ...
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