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    increasing distinction: Chevalier (Knight), Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand officier (Grand Officer) and Grand-croix (Grand Cross). During...
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    Col de la Croix de Fer (English: Pass of the Iron Cross) (el. 2067 m.) is a high mountain pass in the French Alps linking Le Bourg-d'Oisans and Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne...
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    towards the Alps. Stage seventeen included the Col d'Ornon, the Col de la Croix de Fer, the Col du Télégraphe and the highest point of elevation in the race...
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    awarded to heads of state and royalty Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer, Volume 1/ Ferdinand Veldekens Lelong, 1858 pag. 137...
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    ... et de la ville (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2009. "Les chemins de fer secondaires en France". Fédération des amis des chemins de fer secondaires...
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    as Première pensée Rose+Croix) (1891) Leit-motiv du "Panthée" (1891; no instrument specified) Fête donnée par des Chevaliers Normands en l'honneur d'une...
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    catégorie climb of the Col de la Croix de Fer at 2,067 m (6,781 ft). After descending east and then north to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, the riders continued...
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  • Faubourg de Roubaix, Lille, Lille Rue Christophe Colomb, 41000, Les Hautes Bretaches, Croix-chevalier, Nord, Blois Rue Christophe Colomb, 37140, La Salpêtrerie...
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    (8,070 ft) descending to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, followed by the Category 1 climb of the Col de la Croix de Fer to 2,067 m (6,781 ft). After a descent...
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    troops during future campaigns, and also earned him the nickname "Bras de Fer" ("Iron Arm"). Even Napoleon wondered if he was being too severe, to which...
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    Pavel Argeyev (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    returned to the front in October. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, followed by an appointment as a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in May 1915. In the process...
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    Bourg-d'Oisans to La Chambre. It is situated between the Belledonne, Grandes Rousses and Arvan-Villards mountain ranges, west of the Col de la Croix de Fer. The road...
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    the city, in competition with Line 4 of the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP; Paris Metropolitan Railway Company). It was extended...
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    to Meyzieu-Z.I. station)11. It takes the former line of the Chemin de fer de l'Est de Lyon. It enters Montchat at the intersection of rue Feuillat and rue...
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    mystery and screenwriting. In 1998, at the age of 78, she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National (National Order of Merit) from President Jacques Chirac...
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    Plaisance Plaquemines Parish Plaucheville Point Au Fer Reef Light Pointe aux Chenes ("Oak Point") Pointe à la Hache ("Axe Spike") Pointe Coupee Parish (from...
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    Victor Emmanuel II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Orden" p. 8 Ferdinand Veldekens (1858). Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer. lelong. p. 214. Jørgen Pedersen (2009). Riddere af Elefantordenen...
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  • Claude Lamirault (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    : 359, 472–480 : 301  Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Ordre de la Libération, posthumously by decree of 31 May 1945 Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 with palm...
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    Cocteau. Marais impressed Cocteau, who cast the actor in his play Les Chevaliers de la table ronde. Marais appeared in Cocteau's play Les Parents terribles...
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  • Adolphe-Jullien - Adolphe Jullien (1803-1873) - director of the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest railway Quai Aimé-Césaire - Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) - writer...
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    de Lyon in 1835–36. He was a promoter of the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon(fr) (Paris-Lyon Railway) and the Compagnie du chemin de fer de...
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  • List of Huguenots (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. François de la Noue (1531–1591), French soldier, called Bras-de-Fer (Iron Arm). François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandre...
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  • Daniel Arsand (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    le chat de Daniel Arsand. See Extraits de presse on the site 20minutes.fr. Je suis en vie et tu ne l'entends pas by Daniel Arsand on La Croix (23 June...
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  • cross-country skiing La Chavade Bel Air: 70 km of cross-country skiing Col de Légal: 43 km of cross-country skiing La Croix de Bauzon: 9 ski lifts, 9...
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    Michel Peyramaure (category People from Brive-la-Gaillarde)
    interdite, Robert Laffont, « Plein Vent » No. 62, 1970 Le Chevalier de paradis, Casterman, « La Palme d'or », 1971 ; réédition, Lucien Souny, juin 1991...
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    due to the weak European economy. The SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de fer français, or "French National Railway Company") is France's national railway...
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    Chevalier River (Outardes River tributary) Bureau River (Chevalier River) Roquemont River Rivière à la Croix (rivière aux Outardes tributary) Bleuets River (rivière...
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    under his pen name George Orwell, lived in 1928 and 1929 on the rue du Pot de Fer in the fifth arrondissement, where he worked as a dishwasher in a Paris...
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  • highest peak ever reached is Cime de la Bonette-Restefond (2,802 m (9,193 ft)), used in the 1962, 1964, 1993 and 2008 Tour de France. The highest mountain...
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    then did the lead work until the foot of the next climb, the Col de la Croix de Fer, where he dropped back. Ruiz Cabestany fell behind soon after. On...
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