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    The Fort de Nogent or Fort de Nogent-sur-Marne is a French fortification forming part of the fortifications of Paris. Despite its name, the fort is located...
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    Human Resources Division (DRHLE). The GRLE was created July 10, 2007 at Fort de Nogent, near Paris. The new unit assumed all recruiting responsibilities which...
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  • chemistry preparator. He was injured in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War at the Fort de Nogent. He received the 1883 Prix Trémont of the Académie des Sciences. "Prix...
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    Pionniers Groups Groupement de Recrutement de la Légion Etrangère (G.R.L.E), based at Fort de Nogent, France 13e Demi-Brigade de Légion Étrangère (13ème DBLE)...
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  • Castelnaudary Groupement du recrutement de la Légion étrangère (GRLE) - Foreign Legion Recruiting Group, in Fort de Nogent The Commandement des forces terrestres...
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    Châtelet Fort d'Issy Fort Mont-Valérien Fort de Montmorency Fort de Nogent Porte d'Italie Porte Maillot Redoute de Gravelle Fort de Saint-Cyr Fort de Sucy...
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    Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries (category Séré de Rivières system)
    star-shaped forts and redoubts on the heights between Saint-Denis and Nogent-sur-Marne; transformation of the Château de Vincennes into a modern fort. The works...
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    not join in the putsch were escorted back to France and detained at Fort de Nogent. The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment, part of the 10th Parachute Division...
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    Fort de Joux (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ də ʒu]) or Château de Joux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʒu]) is a castle, later transformed into a fort,...
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    Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...
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    the principal forts of Witry-les-Reims, Nogent-l'Abbesse, Brimont, Saint-Thierry, Fresnes and Montbré. The relatively small rectangular fort was surrounded...
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    Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...
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    Françoise-Marie Jacquelin (category People from Nogent-le-Rotrou)
    Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. Françoise-Marie Jacquelin was born and baptized on 18 July 1621 in Nogent-le-Rotrou. According to Charles de Menou...
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    fort was connected to other Belfort forts by the Chemins de fer du Territoire de Belfort strategic railroad. The fort was equipped with optical semaphores...
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  • 619), Nogent-sur-Seine Pont (D 919), Nogent-sur-Seine, in two parts, resting on Île des Écluses Pont de Bernières (pont ferroviaire SNCF), Nogent-sur-Seine...
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  • Châteaudun  • Courtalain  • Dreux  • Levesville  • Maintenon  • Saint-Jean (Nogent-le-Rotrou) Indre (36) Azay-le-Ferron  • Brosse  • Ingrandes  • Mont (le)...
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    telephone. Fort Souville is located south of Fort Douaumont and southwest of Fort Vaux. The fort was one of the first forts of the Séré de Rivières system...
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    practicing tow-in surfing. Nazaré is twinned with: Badajoz, Spain (since 1987) Nogent-sur-Marne, France (since 1993) Zushi, Japan (since 2004) Luis Soares (born...
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    by several buses: RATP Bus: 116, 118, 122, 124, 301, 524 Les Autobus du Fort: 702 Noctilien: N34, N71, N142 Station concourse (with view on access to...
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    Percheron (redirect from Trait de la Loire)
    to World War I, a flourishing trade route for Percherons existed between Nogent-le-Rotrou, Le Havre and the United States. However, after the war began...
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    Havana (redirect from Ciudad de la Habana)
    pavilions were dismantled and re-erected elsewhere; one in the Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, the other in Yokohama, Japan. At the beginning of the 1959 Revolution...
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    along with their monument's canopy made from fragments of the abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine. By tradition, lovers or lovelorn singles leave letters at the...
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    barrière de fer: l'architecture des forts du général Séré de Rivières (1872–1914) [The Iron Wall: The Architecture of the Forts of General Séré de Rivières...
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    Bastille (Grenoble) (category Forts in France)
    in his book Histoire des fortifications de Grenoble de l'an 43 avant JC à 1900. The main square in the fort is now named after him; a plaque tells us...
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    Siegburg (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    authority. Siegburg is twinned with: Bolesławiec, Poland Guarda, Portugal Nogent-sur-Marne, France Orestiada, Greece Selçuk, Turkey Engelbert Humperdinck...
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    is now abandoned. The Fort de Boussois, also known as the Fort de Kilmaine, was built between 1881 and 1883 as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications...
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    Yvette Horner (category Tour de France people)
    Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) and an association for the fight against cancer. After the sale of her Nogent house, the artist lived...
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    Maisons-Alfort (category Communes of Val-de-Marne)
    Nogent-sur-Marne. It is the only commune of the canton of Maisons-Alfort. École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort Fort de Charenton Jardin botanique de l'École...
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    Populations légales de Mayotte en 2017 Répartition de la population en Polynésie française en 2017, Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française...
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    The Fort des Dunes, also known as Fort Leffrinckoucke and sometime Fort de l'Est, is located in the commune of Leffrinckoucke, France, about 6 kilometres...
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