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    La Charité-sur-Loire, known simply as La Charité until 1961, is a riverside commune in the western part of the French department of Nièvre. It is located...
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  • The canton of La Charité-sur-Loire is an administrative division of the Nièvre department, central France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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  • siege of La Charité was incited by the order of Charles VII to Joan of Arc after the warlord Perrinet Gressard seized the town in 1423. La Charité was not...
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    There is also a confidential production of red pinot noir wine near La Charité sur Loire. The President of the Departmental Council is Socialist Fabien Bazin...
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    priory depending on the abbey of La Charité. Roger Marie Bricoux, cellist on the RMS Titanic Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire is twinned with: Communes of the Nièvre...
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    La Charité is a railway station in La Charité-sur-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. The station is located on the Moret-Lyon railway. The station...
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    Pouilly-Fumé (category Loire AOCs)
    and vineyards of Pouilly were transferred to the Benedictines of La Charité-sur-Loire for the sum of "3100 sous and a silver mark" towards the end of the...
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    Agnes and William: Eudes Archambaud Ranier (Rodolphus), Prior of La Charité-sur-Loire, Abbot of Cluny Henry of Sully (died 1189) Margaret (Marguerite)...
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    (Charité-sur-Loire-nord) 119 km: Towns served: La Charité-sur-Loire 29 (Charité-sur-Loire-Center) 122 km: Towns served: La Charité-sur-Loire 30 (La Marche)...
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    Nevers La Charité-sur-Loire Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Cher Sancerre Loiret Briare Gien Orléans Loir-et-Cher Blois Indre-et-Loire Amboise Tours Maine-et-Loire: Montsoreau...
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    Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [ mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune...
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    Pouilly-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [puji syʁ lwaʁ], literally Pouilly on Loire) is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. Pouilly-sur-Loire...
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    François Mitterrand, Président de la République, aux cérémonies du tricentenaire de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes, sur la tolérance en matière politique...
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    in 1106–1107, he consecrated the Cluniac church of Notre Dame at La Charité-sur-Loire, the second largest church in Europe at the time. Towards the end...
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    through the south of France, and went up the Rhone valley up to La Charité-sur-Loire. The staggering royal debt and Charles IX's desire to seek a peaceful...
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    defensive position: they controlled the fortified towns of La Rochelle, La Charité-sur-Loire, Cognac, and Montauban. To cement the peace between the two...
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    François Du Bois, born in La Charité-sur-Loire in Burgundy, France, is a composer, marimba virtuoso, as well as professor, columnist and author. Du Bois...
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    an abbey church of a Benedictine priory depending on the abbey of La Charité-sur-Loire. It is dedicated to Saint Cydroine, a 4th-century Roman Christian...
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    population and the Duke of Nevers who personally led troops in the massacre of La Charité. Many other hardline local representatives of towns, who had been to Paris...
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    Puy-en-Velay: cathedral Le Puy-en-Velay: Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques La Charité-sur-Loire: church Sainte-Croix-Notre-Dame Asquins: church Saint-Jacques d'Asquins...
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  • town walls. Simon de Senlis subsequently went abroad and died at La Charité-sur-Loire, where he was buried in the new priory church. The date of his death...
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  • La Charité-sur-Loire was the home of the Abbaye de la Charité, a very large and famous Cistercian monastery. When the priory church, Notre-Dame-de-La-Charité...
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    the sixth war of religion that resulted, serving at the sieges of La Charité-sur-Loire and Issoire. During 1576, he married Henriette de Savoie-Villars...
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    Agnes and William: Eudes Archambaud Ranier (Rodolphus), Prior of La Charité-sur-Loire, Abbot of Cluny Margaret (c. 1105–1145). She married Henry I, Count...
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  • Yoann Bouchard (born 1 December 1976 in La Charité-sur-Loire) is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He last played for Besançon Racing...
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    Fleury-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [flœʁi syʁ lwaʁ], literally Fleury on Loire) is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. On 1 January...
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    the nominal command of the king's brother Alençon seeing combat at La Charité-sur-Loire and Issoire. The following year, 1578, he was elevated as a chevalier...
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    opponents. In the south, the Protestants took control of Nîmes, La Charité-sur-Loire, Sancerre, Nérac, Castres, Montauban and the towns of Béarn. These...
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    path through the south of France and went up the Rhone valley to La Charité-sur-Loire. The staggering royal debt and Charles IX's desire to seek a peaceful...
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  • Marcel Jean (1900 in La Charité-sur-Loire, France - 4 December 1993 in Louveciennes, France) was a French painter, writer, and sculptor who joined the...
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