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    The Besançon Commune (in French Commune de Besançon) was a short-lived revolutionary movement conceived and developed in 1871, aiming at the proclamation...
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    Racing Besançon (RB) and Besançon Football (BF). Basketball is present with the Besançon Avenir Comtois (BesAC) club, playing in Championnat de Nationale...
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    condemned to death in June 1871, and executed five months later. Besançon. The Besançon Commune originated from the emergence of unions, including a section...
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    rise east of Besançon. The most populous commune is Besançon, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants: The inhabitants...
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  • of the city of Besançon, France. 58 BCE - Julius Caesar occupied Vesontio, the chief town of the Sequani. 1st C. CE – Arènes de Besançon [fr] (amphitheatre)...
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    Dole, Jura (category Communes of Jura (department))
    parlement from Dole to Besançon. The university, founded by Duke Philippe le Bon of Burgundy in 1422, was also transferred to Besançon at that time. In January...
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    little, the people of Besançon joined in the clockmaking fever, definitively transforming Besançon into the Capitale française de l'horlogerie (French...
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    Charles Weiss (librarian) (category Writers from Besançon)
    1779, Besançon (Doubs department) – 11 February 1866, Besançon) was a 19th-century French librarian and bibliographer. Société des Antiquaires de France...
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    List of communist states (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Paris Commune (1870) Lyon Commune (1870–1871) Third Paris Commune (1871) Besançon Commune (1871) Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic (1918) Estonia Commune of...
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    LFQM) is an airport located 5.5 km (3.0 NM) southeast of Besançon in La Vèze, both communes of the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region of France...
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    Paris–Chambéry–Aix-les-Bains–Annecy Paris–Dijon–Besançon–Belfort–Mulhouse Paris–Dijon–Besançon-Viotte Paris–Dijon–Chalon-sur-Saône Paris–Lyon–Saint-Étienne...
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    The Château de Cléron is a 14th-century castle in the commune of Cléron, 25 km south of Besançon, in the Doubs département of France. Before the 12th century...
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    there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population...
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    Airport (French: Aéroport de Dole-Jura) (IATA: DLE, ICAO: LFGJ), also known as Dole–Besançon–Dijon Airport (Aéroport de Dole-Besançon-Dijon), is an airport...
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    Louise-Constance de Batz de Castelmore, born on 4 May, 1775 in Paris. She had a son Jean-Guillaume-Ernest Batz, born in Besançon on 9 February, 1809...
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    communes of the Doubs department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): Grand Besançon Métropole Pays de...
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    Ministry of Culture: Château (in French) Courtieu, Jean (1986). Dictionnaire des communes du département du Doubs. Besançon: Cêtre. ISBN 2-901040-292. v t e...
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    Arc-et-Senans (category Communes of Doubs)
    since 1982, is located here. Arc-et-Senans is a large commune located some 32 km south-west of Besançon and 30 km east by south-east of Dole. It lies between...
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    André Jean René Lacrampe (category Archbishops of Besançon)
    2015) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Besançon. He was born on 17 December 1941 in Agos-Vidalos, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western...
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  • follower of Jesus La Madeleine, Paris (Église de la Madeleine), a church in Paris Église de la Madeleine (Besançon), Doube département, France, a church Cathedral...
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    region. Landscape, Franche-Comté Besançon La Petite Montagne, a view from Molard de la Justice View of Broissia, a commune in the Jura department Vosges...
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    Gy, Haute-Saône (category Communes of Haute-Saône)
    l'histoire de la Franche-Comté, tome second, Bintot imprimeur-libraire, Besançon, 1846, p.221. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data...
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  • The canton of Besançon-1 (French: canton de Besançon-1, [kɑ̃tɔ̃ də bəzɑ̃sɔ̃ œ̃]) is an administrative division of the Doubs department, eastern France...
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    Grand Besançon Métropole is the urban community (communauté urbaine), an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Besançon. It is located in the...
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    The following is a list of the 101 communes of the Territoire de Belfort department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    The 81,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts...
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    shot in the citadel's ditch during World War II. The Citadel of Besançon, in Besançon, Doubs, is considered one of Vauban's finest works of military architecture...
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    Montbéliard, Besançon Jura (F): Dole Saône-et-Loire (F): Verdun-sur-le-Doubs Tributaries include: Loue Dessoubre Allan The river forms several lakes: Lac de Saint-Point...
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    Museum of Art The Greyhounds of the Comte de Choiseul, 1866 Killing a Deer, 1867, Museum of Art, Besançon Courbet was admired by many younger artists...
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    Avanne-Aveney (category Communes of Doubs)
    the commune is by the D106 from Besançon which continues west to Grandfontaine. Route nationale N83 passes through the south-east of the commune from...
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