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    2019. Movies: "Les Demoiselles De Rochefort" 1967 - Jacques Demy Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rochefort (Charente-Maritime). Official website...
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    Charente-Maritime (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɑ̃t maʁitim] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Chérente-Marine; Occitan: Charanta Maritima) is a département in the...
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    Rochefort-Martrou Transporter Bridge is a transporter bridge built between 1898 and 1900. It is located in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine...
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  • Look up Rochefort in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rochefort (/ˈroʊʃfɔːrt/) may refer to: Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, in the Charente-Maritime department...
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    The arrondissement of Rochefort (French: arrondissement de Rochefort) is an arrondissement (district) in the Charente-Maritime department in the region...
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  • The Young Girls of Rochefort (French: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, lit. 'The Young Ladies of Rochefort') is a 1967 French musical comedy film written...
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    departments of Haute-Vienne, Charente, Vienne and Charente-Maritime. The river flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Rochefort. The Charente was described by the...
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    new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It comprised four departments: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces...
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    the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with...
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  • Corderie Royale (category Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    as well as on the website of the tourist office Rochefort Ocean, Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes. The Corderie Royal is also part of the historic...
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    Pierre Loti (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    Protestant family, Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At age 17 he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at...
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    French frigate Hermione (2014) (category Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    32-gun Concorde-class frigate fitted for 12-pounder guns, completed in Rochefort by the Asselin organisation in 2014. It is a reproduction of the 1779...
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  • an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Rochefort. It is located in the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, southwestern...
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    René Lesson (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    Archéologie, bibliographie, etc. du département de la Charente-Inférieure, coll. Gustav. Bord., Rochefort, 1842. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes. Acalèphes...
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    Aunis (category Geography of Charente-Maritime)
    province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime. Its historic capital is La Rochelle, which took over from Castrum...
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  • Years' War. His report on the state of the defences of Rochefort (Rochefort, Charente-Maritime) in 1757 was the main reason for that French naval port...
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    French frigate Hermione (1779) (category Maritime incidents in 1793)
    in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France; the new ship is likewise named Hermione. Construction of Hermione started in December 1778 at Rochefort, under...
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    Olivier Falorni (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    constituency of the department of Charente-Maritime. He was re-elected in 2017 and again in 2022. Falorni was born in Rochefort on 27 March 1972, the son of...
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    offer mainly domestic flights. Airports Angoulême-Cognac and Rochefort-Charente-Maritime are only turned to business flights in the absence of regular...
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  • Anne Desclos (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    is best known for her erotic novel Story of O (1954). Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French...
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    Maurice Merleau-Ponty (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Inférieure (now Charente-Maritime), France. His father died in 1913 when Merleau-Ponty...
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    commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. It is situated on the left bank of the river Charente opposite Rochefort and is a former...
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  • was the father of André Marquis. He served as the préfet maritime of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime and Toulon Son of a notary, he entered the École Navale...
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    The Raid on Rochefort (or Descent on Rochefort) was a British amphibious attempt to capture the French Atlantic port of Rochefort in September 1757 during...
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    demonstrations of ropemaking. A similarly scaled facility in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France, called the Corderie Royale, is also maintained as a...
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  • 25, 1836 – March 10, 1865) was a French naval surgeon born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime on 25 April 1836 and died off Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka,...
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    Charente-Maritime department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): Communauté d'agglomération Rochefort...
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    Gare de Rochefort is a railway station serving the town Rochefort, Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France. The following train services serve...
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    Pascal Gastien (category People from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
    current head coach of Ligue 1 club Clermont. Gastien was born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. He is the father of footballer Johan Gastien.[citation needed]...
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    commissioned to build a fort on the Île-d'Aix, defending the port of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. The outbreak of the Anglo-French War forced him to hastily to...
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