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    The Bastion de France was a trading post founded in the sixteenth century by French merchants of Corsican origin who had established themselves in North...
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    The ACMAT Bastion is a modern French armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by ACMAT. The Bastion was available to customers in North America and Oceania...
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    A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the...
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    European enclaves in North Africa before 1830 (category Plazas de soberanía)
    permanent French presence on the coast, the fortress known as the 'Bastion de France'. Tomasino Lenche completed the building of the Bastion de France in 1560...
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    A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style that evolved...
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  • Social Bastion (French: Bastion Social) was a French political movement founded in 2017 by former members of the far-right student association Groupe...
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    Regency of Algiers (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    and protect French concessions at the Bastion de France Allow trade in leather and wax. Sanson Napollon [it], head of the Bastion de France, was able to...
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    was granted the title Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français, pronounced [ɑ̃.pʁœʁ de fʁɑ̃.sɛ]) by the French Sénat conservateur and was crowned on...
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    French and Italian coral fishing companies were interested in the area from as early as 1553. A trade bastion[clarification needed] called "Bastion de...
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    Rocroi (redirect from Rocroi, France)
    notable surviving example of a bastion fort. Rocroi was fortified by Francis I of France and expanded by Henry II of France. Because of its strategic location...
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    Menton (redirect from Menton, France)
    Jean Cocteau Museum. It opened in 2011 and is close to the Bastion Museum. Mirazur is a French haute cuisine restaurant with three Michelin Guide stars...
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    The bastioned system of the Spanish city of Badajoz consists of a military fortification formed by a set of defensive walls, city gates, bridges, forts...
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    This is a list of bastion forts. Fortaleza de São Miguel, Luanda Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória Fort São Pedro da Barra Fortress of Muxima Fortress of...
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    the time of the French Wars of Religion (1562–98), the château was again strengthened, with the construction of the western bastion, but during the following...
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    ideological commitment to secularism, and a determination to undermine a bastion of old regime privilege. While Cobban agrees the Constitutional Church...
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    Djidjelli expedition (category Naval battles involving France)
    They considered Bougie, Bône and Stora, near a French commercial outpost known as the Bastion de France, but eventually chose Djidjelli. This choice led...
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    two lines of defence, an inner enceinte de sûreté, the bastion wall around the city, and an outer enceinte de combat, a system of concentric star-shaped...
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    The Citadelle of Quebec (French: Citadelle de Québec), also known as La Citadelle, is an active military installation and the secondary official residence...
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    of France and Alvernia, the Langue of Spain (Spanish and Portuguese), the Langue of Germany (English and German), and the Langue of Italy. Bastions and...
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    Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of...
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    Toulouse (redirect from Toulouse, France)
    city many religious orders who came to seek asylum in this solid Catholic bastion. They had baroque churches built in the 17th century: among them, the Order...
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    a bastion at each of the four corners. The second wooden fort deteriorated somewhat less rapidly but by 1742 was in bad repair. In 1747 the French garrison...
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    A Famosa (redirect from Porta de Santiago)
    fortress and most of the outer walls. The Porta de Santiago gateway, and the rebuilt Middelburg Bastion, are the only parts of the fortress that remain...
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    (1987–1999) Social Bastion (2017–2019) Édouard Drumont Joseph Darnand Jean-Marie Le Pen Marcel Bucard Charles de Gaulle Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Marc...
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    Belém Tower (redirect from Torre de Belém)
    architecture. The structure was built from lioz limestone and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (100 ft), four-storey tower. Since 1983, the tower has been...
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    The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial...
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  • Le Bastion 18 : au-delà de la souffrance physique (in English The Bastion 18: Beyond Physical Suffering) is a 35-minute Algerian historical documentary...
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    The French Louisianians (French: Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are Latin French people native to the states that were established out...
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    Polygonal fort (category Articles containing French-language text)
    half of the 19th century. Unlike earlier forts, polygonal forts had no bastions, which had proved to be vulnerable. As part of ring fortresses, polygonal...
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    Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The Bastion was built in the 17th century by Honoré II, Prince of Monaco. Cocteau restored the Bastion himself, decorating...
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