• Évry-Courcouronnes Rue Christophe-Colomb, 94200, Louis Bertrand - Mirabeau - Sémard, Ivry-sur-Seine Rue Christophe Colomb, 13008, Vauban, 6th Arrondissement...
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    Strasbourg (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    streets include Rue Mercière, Rue des Dentelles, Rue du Bain aux Plantes, Rue des Juifs, Rue des Frères, Rue des Tonneliers, Rue du Maroquin, Rue des Charpentiers...
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    a "Town of Art and History" since 1986. Its fortifications, designed by Vauban, have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008. The city is...
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    Brest, France (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    wharves in masonry and otherwise improved the harbour. Fortifications by Vauban (1633–1707) followed in 1680–1688. These fortifications, and with them the...
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    Calais (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    Mace on Rue Maréchaux, Collège République on Place République, Collège Vauban on Rue Orléansville, and Collège Privé Mixte Jeanne d'Arc on Rue Champailler...
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    tomb of Louis XIV's celebrated general Turenne, followed in 1807–1808 by Vauban. In 1835, the underground gallery below the church received the remains...
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    area (rue Carnot, rue Dufour, rue Sigorgne, rue Philibert-Laguiche, rue Dombert, rue Franche, the quay Lamartine, the esplanade Lamartine and rue de la...
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  • Martiniere school. The school was located at the corner of the Rue d'Enghien (later Rue Vauban) and the course of Bourbon (later Castellane dock and pier-General...
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    one of the largest roadsteads in the world. From the Roman castellum to Vauban's citadel, the site has over 1700 years of history, holding right up to the...
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  • in the district of Sanvic at 85 rue Romain Rolland. It was destroyed in 1685 on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. It was not until 1787...
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    EuroVelo 6, which stretches from Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic Ocean near Nantes to Constanta on the Black Sea. The closest major commercial airport is Lyon-Saint-Exupéry...
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    classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne-sur-Mer. In the early 1980s, he was influenced as a teenager...
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    chanting "Macron démission" ("Macron step down"). In the evening, in Place Vauban, protesters gathered, chanting "Macron resign!" and "Aux armes" (Take up...
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    works undertaken between 1667 and 1670, such as the Citadel (erected by Vauban), or the creation of the quartiers of Saint-André and la Madeleine, enabled...
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    Place Charles Lepère seen from rue du Temple...
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    ISBN 978-2-914611-48-0. (in French). A. Dugas, ed., Édouard Pied, Notices sur les rues de Nantes, 1906 (in French). Howard, Michael, The Franco-Prussian War: The German...
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    Very quickly, an "Armenian quarter" developed between Boulevard Vauban, Rue Farnerie, Rue Madier-Montjau, and the Boulevard d'Alsace, 40% populated by Armenians...
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    king). After his visit to Vaux, the king announced that he was going to Nantes for the opening of the meeting of the provincial estates of Brittany. He...
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    history, vol. Ardèche d'Alain Molinier, Édition du CNRS, 1976 (in French) Vauban, Memoir on the Huguenots (in French) Departmental Archives of Ardèche: Enumeration...
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    Exposition internationale, the monument was moved to the place Vauban. Also in the place Vauban is the monument to another "Maréchal" of France who distinguished...
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    fortifications built in the 1740s by Louis de Cormontaigne but based on designs by Vauban. Important barracks, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries, are spread...
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  • the Dordogne. A report was submitted in 1705. The project was approved by Vauban, but seems not to have been implemented. When Jean-Louis took up religious...
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    Cardinal de Bourbon, prince du sang, cardinal (1548), former bishop of Nantes (1550–1554), archbishop of Rouen (1550-1590), Papal legate in Avignon (1565–1590)...
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  • renaissance and 19th-century walls preserved Złotoryja Żagań Żary Almeida Vauban style fortress town. Avis (or Aviz) Beja Bragança – the old town is still...
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  • Pierre-Qui-Vire or Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-Qui-Vire), monks (Saint-Léger-Vauban, Yonne) Pimbo Abbey (Abbaye de Pimbo), Diocese of Aire (Pimbo, Landes) Poitiers...
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    de Valenciennes Place Valhubert Place de Valois Place de Varsovie Place Vauban Place Vendôme Place de Vénétie Place du Vénézuela Place de Verdun Place...
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    Vauban et ses successeurs dans les Alpes de Haute-Provence [Vauban and Successors in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence] (in French). Paris: Association Vauban....
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    Le Brun, Le Nôtre, Lully, Mazarin, Molière, Racine, Turenne, Condé, and Vauban. Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his...
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    000 Nantes-Orléans to Saintes X 531 000 Nantilly to Saumur-Rive-Gauche X X 534 000 Nantes-État to La Roche-sur-Yon by Sainte-Pazanne from Nantes-État...
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