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    Commentry (French pronunciation: [kɔmɑ̃tʁi]; Auvergnat: Comentriac) is a commune in the department of Allier in central France. It lies 42 miles (68 km)...
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    The Compagnie anonyme de Châtillon et Commentry was a French steelmaking company, formed as a limited company in 1862 from the Société Bouguéret, Martenot...
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    The Société de Commentry, Fourchambault et Decazeville was an integrated coal, iron and steel company in France. In 1817 Jean-Georges Dufaud Père, director...
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    working at the mining company named "Compagnie de Commentry-Fourchambault-Decazeville" in Commentry, in the Auvergne region. He was hired by Stéphane...
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  • The Commentry Shales is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. Earth sciences portal France portal...
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    The canton of Commentry is an administrative division in central France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the...
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    between 1833 and 1840. He was then appointed head of the Commentry mining company, later Commentry-Fourchambault, a position he held until his death. He...
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  • socialist political party. The party was founded in 1902 during a congress in Commentry by the merger of the Marxist French Workers' Party led by Jules Guesde...
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    first discovered in Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) Coal Measures of Commentry, France in 1880. In 1885, French paleontologist Charles Brongniart described...
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    Many insects have been obtained from the coalfields of Saarbrücken and Commentry, and from the hollow trunks of fossil trees in Nova Scotia. Some British...
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