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    traveling towards Nation. The station was the location of the Barrière de la Cunette, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the...
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    pathway running along the berm, behind the faussebraye or Carnot wall. Cunette: a narrow channel that runs along the floor of the ditch for drainage purposes...
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    Picquet de la Motte family. A fresco depicting the toll barrier of the Cunette, one of the entrances of the Wall of the Farmers, was previously located...
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    accompanied by three silver arrowheads). A fresco represents the barrière de la Cunette, one of the doors of the Wall of the Farmers-General that was one situated...
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