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    Vitry-le-François (French pronunciation: [vitʁi lə fʁɑ̃swa] ) is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France. It is located on the river...
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    Vitry-le-François station (French: Gare de Vitry-le-François) is a railway station serving the town Vitry-le-François, Marne department, eastern France...
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    The arrondissement of Vitry-le-François is an arrondissement of France in the Marne department in the Grand Est region. It has 110 communes. Its population...
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  • The Vitry-Le-François train bombing of 18 June 1961 was a bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS)...
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    as Châlons-sur-Marne). The subprefectures are Épernay, Reims, and Vitry-le-François. It had a population of 566,855 in 2019. The Champagne vineyards producing...
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  • centuries, pupil of Rashi, and the compiler of Machzor Vitry. He lived in Vitry-le-François. Machzor Vitry contains decisions and rules concerning religious...
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    Jean-François Paillard (12 April 1928 – 15 April 2013) was a French conductor. He was born in Vitry-le-François and received his musical training at the...
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  • Vitry-la-Ville Vitry-le-François Vitry-en-Charollais Vitry-lès-Cluny Vitry-sur-Loire Vitry-aux-Loges, in the Loiret departement Vitry-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais...
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    connects the river Marne and the Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne in Vitry-le-François with the port of Strasbourg on the Rhine. The original objective of...
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  • Odo V was Count of Troyes and of Meaux, including Vitry-le-François, from 1089 to his death, in 1093. Son of Theobald III and Adele of Valois, he was...
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    follows the Marne Valley and serves Épernay, Châlons-en-Champagne, and Vitry-le-François. The LGV Est TGV line also connecting Paris and Strasbourg opened...
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    Guy Georges (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    Rampillon; 15 October 1962) is a French serial killer and serial rapist, dubbed le tueur de l'Est Parisien (the East Paris killer) or The Beast of the Bastille...
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    was the Canal latéral à la Marne, which runs 67 km (42 mi) between Vitry-le-François and Dizy. Downstream of this were several more, including the Canal...
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    2015). "L'attentat le plus meurtrier depuis Vitry-Le-François en 1961" [The deadliest attack since Vitry-Le-François in 1961]. Le Figaro (in French)....
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  • refugees. By 1917 she was working with the French Red Cross at Vitry-le-François, and Le Bourget in France. After her mother's death in 1919, Edith cared...
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    René François Xavier Prinet (31 December 1861, Vitry-le-François – 26 January 1946, Bourbonne-les-Bains) was a French painter and illustrator who drew...
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  • 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 "LE PARCOURS DU RELAIS DE LA FLAMME OLYMPIQUE". Paris 2024. 23 June 2023. Retrieved...
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    Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    as a significant forerunner of later socialist and communist thinkers. François-Noël Babeuf, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Louis Blanc, Friedrich...
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  • Lycée François-Ier may refer to: Lycée François-Ier in Le Havre Lycée François-Ier (Fontainebleau) Lycée François-Ier in Vitry-le-François (school complex)...
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  • The canton of Vitry-le-François-Champagne et Der is an administrative division of the Marne department, northeastern France. It was created at the French...
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    Saône), is a canal in north-eastern France connecting the towns of Vitry-le-François and Maxilly-sur-Saône. It is a summit level canal of Freycinet dimensions...
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  • abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Paris, Jean-François Heidenreich, Exécuteur des Arrêts Criminels, which became France's official...
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    Lizy-sur-Ourcq) Petit Morin (in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre) Saulx (in Vitry-le-François) Chée (in Vitry-en-Perthois) Ornain (in Pargny-sur-Saulx) Blaise (in Arrigny)...
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    the establishment of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Le Jeune was born to a Huguenot family in Vitry-le-François in the region of Champagne, France in 1591, and...
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  • Patrick Louis (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    Patrick Louis (born 22 October 1955, Vitry-le-François) is a French politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of...
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  • Innocent II in 1142. Hostilities flared, and Louis VII infamously burned Vitry-le-François. Pope Eugenius III renewed the excommunication in 1145, but eventually...
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    fortress garrisons to his army. Accordingly, he moved northeast toward Vitry-le-François with the intention of continuing east along the river Marne to Saint-Dizier...
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  • Jean-Christophe Colard (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    Date of birth (1980-08-29) 29 August 1980 (age 43) Place of birth Vitry-le-François, France Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Position(s) Goalkeeper Team information...
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    Abraham de Moivre (category People from Vitry-le-François)
    cornerstone of probability theory. Abraham de Moivre was born in Vitry-le-François in Champagne on 26 May 1667. His father, Daniel de Moivre, was a surgeon...
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    comprised the deadliest act of terrorism in France since the 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), which was working...
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