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    council of each arrondissement is composed of members of the Conseil de Paris and also members who serve only on the council of the arrondissement. The number...
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    Doubs, minus Montbéliard arrondissement) Diocese of Belfort–Montbéliard (Territoire de Belfort and Montbéliard arrondissement) Diocese of Nancy and Toul...
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    general of the 8th Infantry Arrondissement. In October 1881 he joined to his command the divisions of Mayenne, Laval, Mayenne, Le Mans, Alençon and Argentan...
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    classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 arrondissements and 2,054 cantons (as of 2023). These last two levels of government...
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    slightly different from those typical of Corsica and France. Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including...
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    and both the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (Greater Strasbourg) and the Arrondissement of Strasbourg had 514,651 inhabitants. Strasbourg's metropolitan area...
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    (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Créteil. The city is, moreover, the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese...
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    the Hôtel de Ville. To the south east of central Marseille in the 6th arrondissement are the Prefecture and the monumental fountain of Place Castellane,...
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    d'honneur in the 7th arrondissement, the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Musée Cernuschi and the Musée Jacquemart André in the 8th arrondissement. Hôtel de Roquelaure...
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    were banned. In 1861, La Voce di Nizza was closed (temporarily reopened during the Niçard Vespers), followed by Il Diritto di Nizza, closed in 1871. In 1895...
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    Amadeus II, having abdicated, lived here with his second wife Anna Canalis di Cumiana before they were imprisoned at the Castle of Rivoli for trying to...
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    2015 prix Françoise Sagan Philippe Gache (born 1962), racing driver Éric Di Meco (born 1963), former footballer with 342 club caps and 23 with France...
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    hosiery Hôtel-Dieu-Lecomte apothecary Saint-Loup Museum (museum of fine arts) Di Marco Museum (Open from 1 April to 1 October, each year) Not having suffered...
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    in 2017, the massive increase in support in the wealthier western arrondissements and decrease in support everywhere else in the city reflected the changing...
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    sea and the mountain. The city is located on the Eastern side of the "Serra di Pignu", a 960 m (3,150 ft) mountain (see photo opposite). This steep mountain...
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    Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Nouvelle 92). France: Pierre Jannet. 1868 [1462].. Di Rocco A. (2009) Année 451 : la bataille qui sauva l'Occident. Eds. Thélès...
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    2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019. "Gemellaggio dal 2019 tra Anzio e la città di Caen". 14 May 2018. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved...
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    l'église vieille catholique aux États-Unis d'Amérique (in French). Tours; Mayenne: impr. de E. Soudée. OCLC 459118522. Parisot, Jean (2008-06-23). "Monseigneur...
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    suffered a naval blockade by the French Navy under the command of Filippo di Piero Strozzi and Antoine Escalin des Aimars, a former protagonist of the...
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    erected north of the Montrescu gate, the fortress was located in 1531 by F. di Giorgio on the order of Francis I (Francis I gate, with sculpted salamanders)...
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