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    la Joux (27 km2) Bois de Boulogne Bois de la Tour du Lay Bois de Villiers, Bois de la Bucaille Bois de Vincennes Forest of Alluets Forest of Armainvilliers...
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    Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 1611 – 27 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne [ty.ʁɛn], was a French general and one of...
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    by rival fans as they neared the top of the col de la République, sometimes called the col du Grand Bois, outside St-Étienne. The leading riders, including...
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    abbés de Sainte-Marie-aux-Bois. Pagny-sur-Moselle. Bazaille, Manuel (2012). "L'abbaye Sainte-Marie-aux-Bois". La nouvelle revue lorraine (14): 25–31. de Civry...
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    Paris, alongside the Bois de Vincennes. It was largely built between 1361 and 1369, and was a preferred residence, after the Palais de la Cité, of French kings...
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    Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island), 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine, in central...
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    Grande Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments that forms Paris's Axe historique. After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel...
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  • Saint-Gildas-de-Bois (Abbaye de Saint-Gildas-de-Bois), monks, Diocese of Nantes (Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, Loire-Atlantique) Abbey of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard otherwise...
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    de Beauvais, designed by Lemercier similarly as Lescot's Pavillon du Roi, had barely been started. The unfinished Grande Galerie and the Tour du Bois...
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    parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont...
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