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    Ursus of Aosta (Italian: Sant'Orso d'Aosta; French: Saint Ours d'Aoste; fl. 6th century) was an Italian evangelist, today venerated as a saint. Ursus is...
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    Guasco was jailed there in the late 17th century. Le lépreux de la cité d'Aoste, a novel by Xavier de Maistre, is also named after this leper. Tourneuve...
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    The Diocese of Aosta (Latin: Dioecesis Augustana, French: Diocèse d'Aoste, Italian: Diocesi di Aosta) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church. It has...
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    J'étais si heureux en contemplant ces beaux paysages et l'arc de triomphe d'Aoste que je n'avais qu'un vœu à former c'était que cette vie durât toujours...
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    (/ˈænsɛlm/; 1033/4–1109), also called Anselm of Aosta (French: Anselme d'Aoste, Italian: Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec (French:...
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    ISBN 9780399128585. Dempsey, Louis Roger. "L'intervention anglo-américaine en Vallée d'Aoste, Italie, en 1945". Le Flambeau 3–4 (1972). Doyen, Paul-André (1948). La...
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    went on to become an arms dealer. Meylan, Vincent (21 May 2008). "Duc d'Aoste ou Duc de Savoie?". Point de Vue: 79. Squires, Nick (18 February 2010)...
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  • Joseph-Marie Henry, Histoire populaire, religieuse et civile de la Vallée d'Aoste (1929), re-edited in 1967, p.151. Unnamed authors (n.d.), Bonifacio ed...
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    Guide Illustré de la Vallée d'Aoste, 1876. Amé Gorret, Victor-Emmanuel sur les Alpes, 1879. Alexis Betemps, « Du dernier ours au premier ethnographe : l'abbé...
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    sent troops to occupy the French-speaking Italian border region of Val d'Aoste. The French commander threatened to open fire on American troops if they...
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    good leave For this is our custom at Dunmow well known Though the sport be ours, the bacon's your own It is uncertain whether the oath was originally sworn...
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