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    centres for the French Navy. Housed in the Brest naval base, the CIN is made up of the lycée naval (a lycée that also prepares students to enter France's...
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    Helsinki Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr Lycée militaire d'Autun Prytanée National Militaire Lycée militaire d'Aix-en-Provence Lycée naval de Brest École des...
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  • Lycée de Brest [fr] (school) founded. 1851 – Chamber of Commerce established. 1858 Nantes-Brest canal begins operating. Société académique de Brest [fr]...
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    of the bay of Brest (Rade de Brest). The academy remained in this location after the war, and was officially inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in 1965...
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  • Pérouse, old name of city of Tamentfoust, Algiers Lycée Français de San Francisco, previously Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language...
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    in Latin. In 1864, the Plessis family moved from Brest to Paris. Plessis was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, receiving his baccalaureate two years...
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    Marie attended school at Saint Sauveur de Redon and the lycée in Rennes before entering naval college in 1850. He emerged in 1852 and participated at...
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    Guépratte was born in Granville to a family of naval officers. He studied at the Lycée impérial in Brest from 1868, and joined the École Navale on 1 October...
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    Pierre-François Forissier (category Recipients of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil))
    secondary education in Nice, Marseille and Toulon, he then attended a Lycée naval at Brest (1968–1971). He married Brigitte Desbrest on 24 June 1978 at Bonnetan...
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    Édouard Guillaud (category Recipients of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil))
    Lycée Hector Berlioz in Vincennes and at the Private Lycée Sainte-Geneviève in Versailles. Édouard joined the École Navale in 1973. As an Enseigne de...
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    Lycée Français de Caracas Casablanca, Lycée Lyautey Chicago, Lycée Français de Chicago Concepción, Lycée français Charles de Gaulle Conakry, Lycée français...
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  • Émile Chaline (category Free French Naval Forces officers)
    secondary education at the Lycée de Brest. He graduated from the École Navale as an engineer, and then enrolled at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1940...
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    May on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and 3,819 km (2,373 mi) from Brest, the nearest city in Metropolitan France. The tiny Canadian Green Island...
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    Nantes-Brest canal), as far as the part of Blain west of the canal; it then descended south-west to Cordemais, passing between Bouvron, Fay-de-Bretagne...
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    promotion "capitaine de vaisseau" on 7 September 1912. In September 1912 he was also put in command of the naval element of Brest's defences. From March...
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    Michel Vergé-Franceschi (category French naval historians)
    Viviani, at the Lycée polyvalent Claude Monet, at the Lycée régional François 1er and at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, Normandy, where he was also responsible...
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  • Raymond Delamarre (category Prix de Rome for sculpture)
    sculptural decoration for the "Centre des Chèques Postaux" in Dijon and the Brest Lycée de Kerichen. Delamarre's composition "Pour que l’homme ne soit pas victime...
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    The Musée de l'Armée (French: [myze də laʁme]; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement...
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    pupils into 11 lycées, with the mainstream education and technical school Aristide Briand having some 2,500 pupils, one of the largest lycée of France;[citation...
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    museum Arts asiatiques – Guimet, Marie-Catherine Rey et al. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées nationaux, 2001, translation by John Adamson, ISBN 2711838978...
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    Villeneuve then retreated to Cádiz instead of linking up with French naval forces at Brest for an attack on the English Channel. Facing a potential invasion...
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    public schools: Lycée Laetitia Bonaparte Lycée Fesch 1 private: Institution Saint Paul 2 LEP (vocational high schools) Lycée Finosello Lycée Jules Antonini...
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    The Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located...
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    Pierre Loti (category Lycée Henri-IV alumni)
    birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At age 17 he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining...
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    Talaat Pasha (category Treaty of Brest-Litovsk negotiators)
    met Hayriye in 1909, while she was studying in the French girls' Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Constantinople. He learned to speak French in the Israelite...
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    complete his training in France where he graduated from the Naval Academy of Brest in 1964 as a Naval Lieutenant and Engineer. During his military service,...
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  • he first attended the Lycée Gay-Lussac in Limoges, then after his father had been posted to western France he attended the Lycée Henri IV in Poitiers....
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    pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ pɔ̃pidu]), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (lit. 'National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and...
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    known by the name of Lycée Victor Grignard (830 students: General and TSG, as well as scientific preparatory classes [fr]). The Lycée Jean-François Millet...
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    Hubert Lyautey (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment is named after him.[citation needed] Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca, Morocco is named after him. An equestrian statue...
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